Quicktime plays audio only - QT component needed?

I received a DVD with a couple of QT files on it (home made). The files are "AVI Movies". Quicktime will play the movie, but it shows black and only plays the audio. Any suggestions on what I need in order to play the QT video with both audio and video?
Thanks!

Try using Perian. Some codecs and AVI files aren't usable in Mac OS X.
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Quicktime plays audio only

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i've installed flip4mac, perian, divx and other components but still not luck.
hope y'all coudld help me out.
cheers and thanks.

Hi Ricktoronto.
Yes, I've downloaded QT 7.5 from the Apple website and reinstalled several times already but still no luck. I've also created a guest account and I still get the same result: all audio and no video, even for .mov files

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I recently received an AVI video from a friend. When I play it on either QT 7.2 or RealPlayer -- I get the audio, but no video.
I transferred the file to a PC running Windows XP, and QuickTime plays the video properly there.
Any suggestions?

But how would I know which codec is correct for my particular AVI?
If the file opens in the QT Player, open the "Inspector" window and check the "Format:" line. For most files it will indicate the video codec used, encoded dimensions, and color depth of the video track, as well as, the audio codec, channel assignments, and sampling rate of the soud track. Usually this is enough for you to google the codec for Mac use to see if something is readily available. For most commonly use AVI formats, Perien is frequently sufficient. If the codec turns out to be proprietary (e.g., DivX, WMV, ext.), then you may have to purchase a codec. If it turns out to a really old one like "Indeo," then you may simply be out of luck as far as the QT Player is concerned.

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plays fine in whatever browser I'm using, but also with mov files I've made myself with Final Cut Pro.
I've already researched similar problems within this forum from the past few months and I've tried various suggested solutions, like trashing the QuickTime preferences, restarting, repairing permissions, but nothing has changed. I've also gone into QuickTime preferences>advanced>mime settings, checked the "video" box, clicked okay, and restarted, but when I drag a mov file onto the QuickTime icon in my dock, the SAME THING happens, audio without video.
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For the past few days everytime I play an mpg or mov on my QuickTime Player (7.3), I hear the audio but instead of seeing any video, there's only the native aqua gray screen. This not only happens with downloaded mpgs or movs on the Internet, which
plays fine in whatever browser I'm using, but also with mov files I've made myself with Final Cut Pro.
I've already researched similar problems within this forum from the past few months and I've tried various suggested solutions, like trashing the QuickTime preferences, restarting, repairing permissions, but nothing has changed. I've also gone into QuickTime preferences>advanced>mime settings, checked the "video" box, clicked okay, and restarted, but when I drag a mov file onto the QuickTime icon in my dock, the SAME THING happens, audio without video.
This hasn't affected anything within FCP, but I can't see any of my files in QuickTime. The only thing I did lately was install a third party program to change the look of my iTunes interface, but I completely trashed my iTunes program, all related files, including my music library, and reinstalled them from my backup drive, in case that affected QT.
Any ideas?
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If the files were corrupted, wouldn't play full videos on mac. or would it.
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Possible cable connection error...
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My quicktime player plays audio but not visuals.
The footage is Hdv footage which was filmed on a hdv camera recently.
I have quicktime version 7.5 & os 10.4.3
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Mark

Hi Mark and welcome to the forums!
You really do need to update your OS to 10.4.11:
The 10.4.11 Combo Updater for PPC Macs is here: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosx_updates/macosx10411comboupdat eppc.html
And for Intel Macs: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosx_updates/macosx10411comboupdat eintel.html
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for close eye Meditations. ( i dont want to have to add a CD with the DVD for just Audio)
I made one years ago and just used black as the video output track.
Is there a way to save space and just have the audio track play?
And if so how might i do it and also link to the DVD menu?
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Below is what I wrong before I tested the obvious. Just "import as timeline" the audio only (make sure there is no m2v with the same name); Encore happily builds a disk with black. Mediinfo shows the video stream, but it appears to be at a very low datarate. So, give it a try. I did not burn a disk; just build to a folder and used a software player.
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We have an iMac w/two 500 GB external drives for video storage and a 1 TB TimeCapsule. The iMac recently stopped running and failed to boot; after opening and reseating the memory, it is back up and running, but fails to recognize either external drive. In a panic, we copied all the quicktime movies (all our kids baby movies) from the TimeCapsule backups to a separate PC for backup.
On the PC, the movies play and we hear the audio, but the video is just green. The same movie plays fine on the iMac, even when playing from the PC hard drive.

With some googlefu I have found the problem, which lies in the icod or Apple Intermediate Codec which was used to encode the movies when they were imported from my HD camcorder.
Unfortunately, Apple saw fit to use a proprietary codec on my personal files, limiting their use elsewhere, without any obvious notification before the files were removed from the source device to make space for new movies. Now I have 550 GB of quicktime movie files readable only with a Mac-based product.

Quicktime .MOV file plays audio only - no video

Okay, here goes...
I created a .MOV file from Avid via the H.264 codec. This file contains video and audio and was made on a Mac using Leopard. I played it back successfully on that machine.
I then copied it to a data DVD and put it on my XP PC with all OS software up to date. I have a freshly updated QT 7.6 install. The files will only play back audio on my PC - video appears black (if preferences are set to Direct X) or white (if preferences are set to safe mode). Video card is an NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT/GTO; driver is up to date.
Anybody have any insight into what I need to do to my PC to get this video to play?

Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, it doesn't directly address the issue I am having (though it does show me the world of hurt out there when FCP and Avid bump up against each other in the same post process).
And the third-party page doesn't have any codecs for Avid.
Again, I am at a loss. I created the QT files from my Avid project on a Mac. The files played back properly on that Mac. They won't play back on my Windows machine, so I can only assume that there's something missing or different between the QT versions for Mac and Windows.
Since I can't figure out how to get these files to play properly on a PC and since my home machine is a PC, I guess I will not output footage from Avid to a .MOV file in the future. I will try to find a format that Windows Media Player likes, I guess.
Thanks for the help.

Web Quicktime playing audio track only

When I access websites that provide streaming MPGQuicktime movies, only the audio track will play. I can't see any pictures.
This has only recently happened. If the site is providing WMV videos they play OK no problem.
I am using 10.3.9 and have installed the latest version of Quicktime but still no luck
thanks

Ok. This works. Sadly, I did not try the solutions one step at a time (remember the scientific method?) so I'm not sure which one was the fix. However, the Quicktime files now do play on apple.com/trailers or any other site with QT videos.
STEP 1: I did this one first and it is taken from another thread an posted by Baby Boomer:
Save and/or quit your applications & doucuments
Go to Applications>Utilities Folder
Click Disk Utility
Click the Volumn (HD) that you want to check.
Click the Repair Disk Permissions button. (Don't worry about verifying)
At the bottom of window when the repairs have finished, you will see the “most important thing”:
Permission Repairs Complete
The previliges have been repaired or completed on the selected volumn.
Restart your computer.
STEP 2: This one I did next and it was posted on anther thread by Borntostrum:
Go to HD> Library> Internet Plugins> Delete Quicktime Plugin.webplugin and restart your browser.
Hope that Helps!!
Well, it did help. Thanks to both Borntostrum and to Baby Boomer!
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Finally figured it out the solution! (This only applies to Mac users.)
Firefox 3.x ran in 32-bit mode and Quicktime 7.x runs in 32-bit mode, so the two programs worked just fine together. The new Firefox 4.x, however, runs in 64-bit mode, so the 32-bt Quicktime 7.x plug-in no longer works correctly.
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