LR5: playing and importing video (e.g. *.mov) not working: DynamicLinkMediaServer not working

Hi!
** SETUP:
OSX Mavericks, LR5.4
** The ERROR:
I needed to reinstall my system. I reinstalled OSX Mavericks and all my data from a backup. Since then I can not run or play video files in LR anymore.
I get the error message:
dynamiclinkmediaserver has encountered an error.
[/DynamicLinkMediaServer701/releases/2013.03/shared/adobe/MediaCore/ASL/Foundation/Make/Ma c/../../Src/DirectoryRegistry.cpp-283]
** I TRIED:
I was trying to google the issue and there are some suggestions. I tried:
- uninstalling QuickTime and reinstalled QuickTime 7: did not help
- allowed LR in the firewall path-through
Some people (under Windows) stated that they needed to do something with dynamiclinkmediaserver, but I don't know what I can do under Mac.
Thanks for any help to get my system running again.
Regards,
frank

I'm having the same issue - posted here: Error Message in Lightroom 5.7 in slideshow module: "dynamiclinkmediaserver has encountered an error." I'm note trying to upload video, but simply use the slideshow module in LR5 for photographs. this error however is preventing LR form recognising the music file I am trying to attach. If anyone has some suggestions around what the fix might be for this, it would certainly be appreciated.

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