Quicktime and mono files...

Why can't QuickTime play mono files? From the Finder or as an open file.
And how do I go about getting QuickTime to play mono files? Perhaps some setting has been altered that I'm not aware of.

I previously posted a fix that didn't work out but if someone is still trying to figure this out I made a discovery today. My mail app would no longer play my voice mail wave files from inside the actual emails. When I played through the internal speaker i heard it fine but through my sound card nothing. I had noticed that the files were mono and if I opened them in quicktime and reassigned the mono channel to right or left I could hear it but I didn't know how to change the way quicktime would rout mono files by default. Today I had some time to kill so I experimented. I found that on my system with my sound card the solution was to go to the speaker configuration setting in the audio devices panel of the audio midi setup window. There I went to the multi channel setting and switched it from 5.1 surround to stereo. Perfect sound from my mono file now on both speakers for the first time. I had to close and restart my apps to be sure these settings had worked. A little more work showed that the mono sound was previously being routed to the center channel which was not connected on my system. It appears to have resolved my issue but why the importance of these setting was never mentioned by apple is beyond me. If this works for anyone else let me know.

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Hi,
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További információk 3: 9315
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*Staying in "Program Files (x86)",* open the "Common Files" folder.
Open the "Apple" folder.
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Empty your Recycle bin.
*Reinstall phase*
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Verify you have access
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Unfortunately, the error message gives no details about what codec might be missing or what it needs.
If the file can't be opened in QT, it only means you cannot use the QT "Inspector" window to check what compression formats were used to create the file. It does not mean you can't use the Finder "Information" window to check on the compression formats or use a third party media information window (e.g., like VLC which will open many compression formats not supported natively by QT) to determine what kind of data is included in the MOV wrapper. If the file cannot be opened in any app, it is usually a good sign that the file itself is corrupted.
It's a stupid error message. Apple should do better than that.
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I'll call Apple support when I get a chance.
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