Quicktime can´t play .mov files

Iphoto doesn´t recognize movies from iphone (.mov files)
When I attach my iphone to import movies I made with my iphone 4 into iphoto, Iphoto tell´s me it can´t read the format (.mov files).
Quicktime cannot play .mov files either. I reinstalles ILife´11, that didn´t help. Importing the files into imovie doesn´t work either, because imovie always crashes. I can´t drag and drop the movies from my iphone via iphoto to my desktop - does anyone know how to do that?
Does anyone know how to fix this problem? Been to the Genius Bar, but they couldn´t help.

In case anyone has the same problem, this was my solution:
1. install Quicktime 7 from your old snow leopard CD, don´t download from the internet
2. then follow the instructions that Neutronjon gave in https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3211124?start=0&tstart=0, if you have the same error message
I have had this problem for a year now, tried all sorts of things, and this finally worked!

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Let me tell you what are you doing wrong...
you just followed the wrong road try this one instead and you will love it.
*1st of all*: Dont pay attention to QuickTime, no matter what movie you want to view
just download and install VLC Media Player and your worries about formats, video codecs, audio codecs, multi zone dvd reproduction will be over in a sec!
just "open as" > VLC Media Player and you will see everything and if you have a subtitle file, just drag it into the movie

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Just take a look at the last few days posts here and you'll see many people with the same problem and some possible solutions.
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Help from Brazil!!!
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David,
tks for your help !!!
Hi people, first, tks for Birdman308 for his link
https://www.hightail.com/dl?phi_action=app/orchestrateDownload&rurl=https%3A%2F% 2Fwww.hightail.com%2Ftransfer.php%3Faction%3Dbatch_download%26batch_id%3DOGhkZ28 xeWFiV3dYRHRVag
and makbookpro as well for his link
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/164630.html
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Welcome to the forums DeKay.
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General
Complete name : /xxxx/xxxx/Desktop/100OLYMP/P3240029.MOV
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : QuickTime
Codec ID : qt
File size : 296 MiB
Duration : 3mn 3s
Overall bit rate : 13.5 Mbps
Movie name/More : OLYMPUS LINEAR PCM RECORDER
Encoded date : UTC 2014-03-24 11:00:11
Tagged date : UTC 2014-03-24 11:00:11
Origin : Pcm Recorder
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : [email protected]
Format settings, CABAC : No
Format settings, ReFrames : 2 frames
Format settings, GOP : M=1, N=30
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 3mn 3s
Bit rate : 12.0 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.193
Stream size : 262 MiB (89%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2014-03-24 11:00:11
Tagged date : UTC 2014-03-24 11:00:11
Color primaries : BT.601 NTSC
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.601
Audio
ID : 2
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Little
Format settings, Sign : Signed
Codec ID : sowt
Duration : 3mn 3s
Source duration : 3mn 3s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 411.2 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 30.8 MiB (10%)
Source stream size : 30.8 MiB (10%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2014-03-24 11:00:11
Tagged date : UTC 2014-03-24 11:00:11

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HT3775 QuickTime Player cannot play "mov" file

Hi,
I have a problem to play "mov" file.
regards,

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I recorded the movie using a camera, and the file plays on the camera as a movie... I'm stumped.
Then I suggest you compare the size of the playing file on your camera with the size of the non-playing file on your computer—they may not be the same. As QTKirk indicated, 40.37 KB seems unreasonable for any normally encoded non-anamorphic 1280x720 MPEG-4/AVC file more than a few frames long. For comparison purposes, a typical 1280x720 JPEG photo compressed to its smallest file size setting on a Mac would have a file size on the order of 100 KB. Other ways to look at your file would be...
a) if it is one second long, then its data rate is on the order of 322.96 Kbps
b) if it is two seconds long, then its data rate is on the order of 161.48 Kbps
c) if it is three seconds long, then its data rate is on the order of 107.65 Kbs
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HT3775 My Quicktime Player says that it can't play .mov files...

has anyone else experienced this or do you have any suggestions to remedy the situation?

I'm sorry, I should have included
"and I actually need to use the .mov because I'm currently working on a film collaboration project, I'm an audio student, and compressing it into a different file type (particularly mp4) messes up the frame rate and thus destroys the timing of all of the audio I have already programed to match the final video format."
but I guess I didn't feel the need ...
anyhow, it turns out my particular quicktime will record and export .mov files which it will also read, and I've used this specific .mov file on another computer both in Pro Tools and in Quicktime, so it's a my comp specific seeming problem which makes me wonder if there is A) something wrong with my quicktime or B) a setting somewhere that I'm not finding.
Unfortunately the Google search I did proved a bit fruitless.

Quicktime can´t play .mov files

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