Issue with playing quicktime movie on win pc

Question

I've run into an issue with dvds a friend burned on a mac. The quicktime
movie files on the discs play fine on macs, but will begin to stutter
and freeze 35 minutes in on win xp. i've tried multiple pcs with no
luck.
The same thing happens when I copy the files to the hard drive. I tried the VLC
player instead of quicktime, but that closes altogether after 35 minutes. I
also tried copying the files to an external hard drive with the same results.
Quicktime is at latest version.
I saw a post here about files over 1GB being problematic in windows with the FAT file system. The PCs I'm using are using the NTFS file system. The files are over 2GB, and they spaz out at the halfway mark, so perhaps that is part of the problem. But I'm stunned that there aren't more posts on this topic if that's the case.
Any help would be much appreciated!

Answer 1

Jshanh
I have had similar problems. I have not experienced the
looping problem but I very often experience the problem of
Quicktime not playing in Shockwave.I think that I can solve the
second part of your problem ( if I understand it correctly).
You can make a streaming progress sprite for quicktime that
indicates to the end user what percentage of the Quicktime movie
has streamed. The sprite appears as a small box that shows a 1 then
a 2 then a 3 etc up to 100. You can of course make another text
sprite that tells the user what the numbers mean e.g. % streamed.
Method
Make a text sprite and leave it blank (this text sprite will
show the appropriate number during enduser viewing) name the member
stream display. Name the Quicktime member swing 1a and put it in
the timeline. Right click on the quicktime sprite in the stage
window and in the resulting pop up menu select Script . In the
Script window write the following script
on exitFrame me
member("stream display").text=\
string(member("swing1a").percentStreamed)
end