Quicktime NO Longer Gets Streamed H264 Video . Why

for teh past year and ahalf i have streamed live content to our helix server, and have been able to watch it with quicktime on other pc's however in teh past month and few updates, quicktime has broken this. no video is diesplayed at all. if we change our live capture to use regular mpeg-4 we can see the video. but onc ewe try to go back to h264, we no longer see any video. vlc works great, so why is it that h264 streaming from our helix server no longer works with quicktime? also why is there such a huge memory leak when you watch live mpeg4 files streamed from a helix server or quicktime server? its huge like 50k a second. in mpeg-4, h263, and h264??

even if that drive is not hopelessly fragmented (and chances are that it is) it is still a little too full (more than 80%) and certainly will not be performing at its best
are these 3 drives dedicated to your media or do they contain all sorts of stuff?
for best performance, consider keeping your main media drive (the 500GB Lacie) dedicated to your capture scratch only, and wipe it clean at the start of each project
you can use the other drives for your longer term media / library footage / archive documents
in the meantime consider changing your capture scratch to the G-DRIVE and see if you fair better with that one and/or dig in to your existing stuff and start freeing up space, consolidating uneeded footage on other drives etc
best
Andy

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