QuickTime can't play stream

Question

I've tried everything? to play the apple webcast with no luck.
*Changin port in preferences
*Deleting .plist
*Creating a new user
*Deleting QT and reinnstalling
Nothing seems to work, it plays fine with a windows computer on the same internet connection.
Any ideas of what i can do next??

Answer 1

I experienced this same problem and tried most of the ideas presented to you so far. I experimented with my router, firewall, various speed of streaming settings, etc. After reading your post and the associated ones, I felt that I was chasing the problem the wrong way and that what I was seeing was some sort of basic configuration problem. So, I had Quicktime player open with the Apple webcast attempting to play. I hit "pause" and changed the quicktime transport settings under the advanced tab of the quicktime preferences control panel. Each time I changed the setting, I pressed "play" on the viewer to see if the movie would play properly. It didn't (I pressed "pause" after each failure}, but I went through all of the choices and eventually set it back to "automatic". Then I went to the streaming tab and, with streaming speed set to "Automatic", deselected the "Enable Instant On" check box. I tried the player again and it still wouldn't play properly. I quit the Quicktime player and on a hunch relaunched the player and selected the webcast from "recent files". It played flawlessly! I have tried quitting and re-launching several times. It seems permanently "fixed". Whatever misconfiguration was happening seems to be cleared. I have given you all of the annoying detail because I'm not sure which setting, when combined with quitting the player, is the magic combination. I have since turned "Instant On" back on and streaming still works. I think if you try the same procedure it may clear your problem.