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I have posted in the Quicktime forum but have not gotten any response so I thought I would try here. I have several videos that I have compressed with H.264. They play perfectly via Q7 player, but when trying to play them via Firefox or IE, they crash the browser with a plugin error. The weird thing is that sometime they do play, but they crash the browser about 8 out of 10 times. Is anyone else seeing this? I have tried playing these on multiple computers, so I am pretty sure it is not a browser configuration problem as other videos play just fine. Only the ones encoded with H.264 seem to cause this crash. A final note, they didn't crash the browser when Q7 for Windows was in beta, only after the final release.
One of the videos in question: http://seanlperkins.com/movies/friends.mov
Again, sometimes it plays, try it several times, or other videos from my site....

thanks for the input. i understand the differences between various hardware setups/monitors/profiles causing variability in how images look, but the issue lies in that i am viewing the same video on the same compouter with the same monitor just with different software and it's being displayed differently. i have a hardware calibrated monitor (i am also a photographer) so i undestand color management with ICC profiles from a photographic perspective. unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a direct equivalency for video that i am aware of.
here is an example:
http://bold-creative.com/images/3.jpg
top left is youtube on chrome
top right is youtube on safari
bottom left is VLC
bottom right is quicktime X
see how desaturated safari and quicktime are vs chrome and VLC? chrome and VLC match FCP.
i thought it was maybe just how safari handled the video, but other youtube videos were identical when viewed next to each other on chrome and safari. this leads me to believe that it must be my file that is somewhow the culprit.

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