How to solve error 2002: bad public movie atom found?

I have a Windows XP. I am running Quicktime 7.7.1. I have already tried uninstalling and reinstalling. I have no idea what the problem could be. When I uninstalled Quicktime the videos played fine in Windows Media Player Classic, but without sound. I don't know if thats relevant at all. I have to have QuickTime back!! Please help...if you need any more info, please ask...
Thank you!

I have the same problem
mp4s created with nero recode worked well with itunes.
Rebuilt my machine with Windows Vista installed latest iTunes and quick time and now 25% of the movies return a public atom error.
Interestingly the same movies on my network drive play OK, but if you copy them to My Videos you get error 2002 public atom (but only for the ones that I originally found did not play).
I have created new mp4s with Recode and they donot play except when moved to the network drive.
I have reinstalled quicktime and Vista with no effect.I think this is a Vista/Itunes/Quicktime compatibilty issue.
Can any one else help?
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"Error - 2002 Damaged public movie atom" bla, bla, bla"

Hi,
I hope that there's someone out there that could help me with this issue that I have with iTunes.
When I try to add the taggs of each of my movies in my library, such as name, genre and poster, my iTunes 9 out of 10 times crashes. But that is not the whole thing.
When it crashes, I discover that the movies that I tried to edit were damaged by the software and none of them are playable by either VLC, WMP or QuickTime. When I try to play them in QuickTime I get the message: "Error - 2002" and something about a damaged public atom.
What is this **** and how do I recover all of my films?
Plz help!

Were these movies purchased from the iTunes Store?
Take a look at this blog post someone made -> HOWTO: Fix the "Error - 2002: a bad public movie atom was found in the movie" problem with mp4 video in iTunes / Quicktime on Vista
WTH.

What is error code 2002 "Bad Public Movie Atom"

I just purchased QT 7 Pro for Windows. Installation & update correctly performed. When I attempted to import .mov file from my underwater video camera, I got the message. What do I do?

I have the same problem
mp4s created with nero recode worked well with itunes.
Rebuilt my machine with Windows Vista installed latest iTunes and quick time and now 25% of the movies return a public atom error.
Interestingly the same movies on my network drive play OK, but if you copy them to My Videos you get error 2002 public atom (but only for the ones that I originally found did not play).
I have created new mp4s with Recode and they donot play except when moved to the network drive.
I have reinstalled quicktime and Vista with no effect.I think this is a Vista/Itunes/Quicktime compatibilty issue.
Can any one else help?
Home Build Other OS Vista Ultimate

Error -2002: a bad public movie atom was found in the movie

I have a Nikon Coolpix L10 (about 2 years old) that records video in the .mov format.
Most of the time when I play the videos on my computer I used to get a bad flicker and the video would often freeze. When I used a video editing program I found that for every two frames of video there was a black frame.
So I thought maybe Quicktime wasn't 100% compatible with the file type or version. So after some deliberation I got Quicktime Pro and I have the newest version 7.6.5. The flicker is gone but the video still freezes.
So I tried exporting to MP4 or AVI or anything and I keep getting
"Error -2002: a bad public movie atom was found in the movie"
It wont allow me to export the video to a different format.
Sometimes when I cancel the export Windows pops up a screen that it's searching for a reason that the Export Controller stopped working.

Thank you very much for the help. I tried copying and pasting the video file that is a .mov file to my zip drive and then I tried to an .avi file. The reason for doing this is so I can edit it with microsofts windows movie maker. After I had it on the zip drive and tried to export it so I could change the file it still defaults to the error 2002 message saying there is a bad public movie atom. I have done a bunch (5) other movies from the camera and they all worked and then the last one would not. So I assume there is a random factor that happens such as file size or something in the recording that causes the random atom attack. Maybe the difference is not being a mp4. It would be great if there was a definitiion of what bad public atom was and what it meant. Computers and technology is great.
I did another search and found that a person commented on zipping the file. Well I tried to zip it from the external drive I have to my desktop and it would not work. Then I ziped the file again. Saved to a external drive then unziped it to the same external drive. From that file I then did the file export and it went fine. So the moral of the story is if the video you took is important keep searching and trying and thanks for everyones help. Why is it the vendor of the product does not post solutions? Anyway now I can go on making movies and editing them. It must be a file corruption issue so that by moving the 1's and 0's around it fixes it's self. Is it a bug with the camera recording or is a bug with quick time?

Bad public movie atom

I have a couple of clients trying to use FCS client at home over our secure company network with very limited success. Mostly they receive constant "caching" messages. I am telling them that I cant guarantee them they can do this at home but one of them received the message "bad public movie atom was found". Can anyone help with the diagnosis of this problem?

Over what protocol are you allow the remote users to hit Final Cut Server?
Also, what ports are available from the remote users systems to the server running FCS? At minimum, 8821 and 8826 need to be open for the client to work properly.
- James Heliker

My videos are defaulted to Quicktine and I have downloaded the latest QT player but all my movie clips now cannot be played and I get this error message Error-2002 a bad public movie atom was found in the movie.

I have used quicktime player downloads for movie clips made for equipment inspections. However in 2011 I encountered a problem when trying to view previously made movie clips that are in the quicktime player format but they won't play giving the messgae : Error-202 a bad movie atom was found in the movie,
I have downloaded the latest Quicktime player but the problem still remains. However late in 2011 when this problem was encountered I downloaded the the latest QT player download and then could play the movie clips but now the problem is back.
How do I fix this problem.
Regards
Richard

Hello,
This doesn't really solve the problem, but why don't you ask your colleague to resave or export test.3gp?
The new file will probably work. (vs troubleshooting your Windows PC can take ages, to no avail)

A bad public movie atom error????

Can anyone tell what in hte world that is and what to do about it? I'm getting it when I try to open an MP4 file with iTunes...

It's a corrupt file -- QT stores information in what it calls "Atoms" and a bad one is one that's been corrupted.
Happens alot with Zipped files -- shouldn't happen at all unless the file itself is packed in some manner. Best bet is to create the file again, or get it again unzipped from wherever you got it in the first place. There is no way to repair it (although some programs, like VLC, can apparently open it without error -- that won't do you any good insofar as the iPhone and iTunes is concerned).

Error -2002 Bad public atom!!!!!!!!!!

How can I fix this error? What causes this? It seems to have started with the last two updates of iTunes. Now, I cannot import any of my MP4 files! This is very frustrating. Any help to resolving this would be appreciated.

When a file becomes corrupted, there's really no way to properly reverse it. If you have a backup of the content, you can try re-importing, or if you don't, you should contact the iTunes Store (as mentioned before).
You can contact them at http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/store/lostmusic

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'An invalid public movie atom was found in the movie' Error Message

I was just tidying up all the music in iTunes and came across an album that half the songs are unplayable... I get no action with iTunes. I tried opening one of them with Quicktime and I get the following message:
An invalid public movie atom was found in the movie
I wonder if there might be a fix. I have the original CD at home but I am traveling and won't be back for a few months...
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QT "invalid public movie atom" problem - iPod Classic

I encountered a strange "invalid public movie atom" problem relating to my brand new iPod classic (80GB):
I used QTpro 7.4.1(14) to convert several movie/avi files for iPod (the standard procedure via the offered converting methods).
After copying them to the iPod via iTunes, they showed flawlessly on the iPod and i was also able to watch them on my TV.
Then i converted another file, copied it to iPod and tried to start the video, the result was a fuzzy green screen (like some encountered it with the album art) and the the iPod crashed (restarting automatically with the grey apple-logo screen).
I did this a second time, it crashed, and after restarting again, i tried it with one of the videos that worked fine before. One of them then caused the same problem, green fuzzy screen, restarting automatically!
When i tried to open these two files mentioned with QT from the movies folder in my iTunes library, i got the "invalid public movie atom" message and, well, the videos don´t play anymore. (keep in mind, they played before!)
Important: i did a clean install about two weeks ago, installing all updates (OSX, QT, iPod, etc.) before doing anything else. The first videos im talking about are older, but worked well after the cleaninstall/update procedure was done. Since then nothing was changed and now suddenly the problem appears?!
Some thoughts: i read here in other posts that A the iPod sometimes crashes because of that "album art problem", but that doesn´t have anything to do with video?! B since it worked before (the last days since i did the clean install) the bug , or whatever it is, "appeared" based on another issue?
Thx :-/
Hardware/Software involved: PowerMag G5 dual 2GHz., iPod Classic 80GB, OSX 10.5.2, QT 7.4.1(14), iTunes 7.6.1(9), iPod 1.1.1
I also posted this in the QT for Mac OS section:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1442446&tstart=0

There is a little piece of code that tells iTunes which movies can be played on iPod. It is called the iPod Atom. If you have a movie that is fully compatible with iPod BUT doesn't have this atom, it just won't sync regardless the movie can actually be played by the iPod. I have been having trouble with these little bastards myself...
My guess on your problem is that the converted movies weren't 100% compatible with your iPod but they had the atom so they synced. Some AVI movies plays partially on QT.
May I suggest that you instal Perian which adds a lot of codec handlers to Quicktime and try to re-encode some of them.
On my side, I have been trying to find how to insert the aforementioned iPod Atom on movies that have already been encoded so I don't have to re-encode them again... But that's my personal quest. Good Luck!
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Invalid public movie atom with digital camera videos?

I've shot videos with my digital camera, uploaded through iPhoto and edited on iMovie HD before
but a couple weeks ago I have not been able to upload on IPhoto:
Open on Quicktime:
Or edit on iMovie HD:
My least concern right now is being able to watch these videos because I can view them on the VLC player.
I urgently need to edit them on iMovie HD for class projects and want to know why this "Invalid public movie atom" came out from nowhere.
Can it be fixed? I am desperate for help with some videos I shot today in class because I need to edit them for Tuesday
Thank you!

I'm afraid I can't be of much help, except to tell you what the error means...
It means that at a very low level, something is messed up in your movie.
A QuickTime movie is made up of a heirarchy of containers, called "atoms". Atoms come in two varieties: atoms may contain other atoms, or they may contain data. The first four bytes of the atom give tthe length of the atom in bytes, the next four give the name of the atom, and the rest of the bytes are the data carried by that atom: either raw data or more atoms. The error is telling you that the structure of the movie is wrong, that the actual file does not match its description.
If you are truly lucky, then the problem is an invalid length specification for the top level "moov" atom. Normally, the first four bytes of a QuickTime movie give the length of the moov atom, which is equal to the total length of the file. Try making a copy of the movie and opening the copy with a hex editor. If the first four bytes are not the same as the length of the file, try fixing them and see if that repairs the movie. If not, then the problem is deeper and/or more complicated.
WARNING: Perform surgery ONLY on COPIES of your movies!
--Dave Althoff, Jr.

'Invalid Public Movie Atom' after moved movies across HDD's

hi all.
im kind of freaking out because i have just lost over 1TB of movies when purchasing a new usb HDD.
now all i did was copy the movies from 1 USB hdd to another USB hdd and now they won't work, i get the error 'Invalid Public Movie Atom' or 'this is not a movie file'.
They are all .mp4
i tried dropping one of them into visualhub and it came up with an error.
is there a way to recover or fix all my movies.
edit: one of the movies happens to work. i have moved my data to a WD MyBook mirror edition, its status currently is RAID 0 +HFS, the moveis were on a MyBook 1TB formatted MacOS Extended (journaled)
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Hi,
I suggest to start looking at this:
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http://aeroquartet.com/movierepair/missing%20resource%20fork.html
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Invalid Public Movie Atom????? HELP!

I get this message for a home movie from my video camera.
"An invalid public movie atom was found in the movie" .... It was my absolute favorite movie and now it just doesn't work! Can anyone help?!?!

I'm afraid I can't be of much help, except to tell you what the error means...
It means that at a very low level, something is messed up in your movie.
A QuickTime movie is made up of a heirarchy of containers, called "atoms". Atoms come in two varieties: atoms may contain other atoms, or they may contain data. The first four bytes of the atom give tthe length of the atom in bytes, the next four give the name of the atom, and the rest of the bytes are the data carried by that atom: either raw data or more atoms. The error is telling you that the structure of the movie is wrong, that the actual file does not match its description.
If you are truly lucky, then the problem is an invalid length specification for the top level "moov" atom. Normally, the first four bytes of a QuickTime movie give the length of the moov atom, which is equal to the total length of the file. Try making a copy of the movie and opening the copy with a hex editor. If the first four bytes are not the same as the length of the file, try fixing them and see if that repairs the movie. If not, then the problem is deeper and/or more complicated.
WARNING: Perform surgery ONLY on COPIES of your movies!
--Dave Althoff, Jr.

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