Using Midi with Quicktime

I found out I can't play .mid files with Quicktime X, so I purchased Quicktime 7 pro. The manual states that I can open a .mid file, but when I try I get the error UNABLE TO OPEN FILE. THIS IS NOT A MOVIE FILE. Any thoughts.
BTW Apple, I feel like I'm back in 2003 when I was trying to get midi files to play on my computer. 50 billion dollars later and the same discussions from 2003 - 2007 are still issues? I've already decided that technology will not impress me untill I can download food, but to sit here for hours trying to get a simple file to play is not something that should be happening with the amount of money you're sitting on. Oh and my serial number/reg number for QT pro is not recognized by your system so I can't call for actual support with apple. I mean, I understand...who's got that kind of scratch to keep an extra 1000 tech support people working to deal with the million issues on your support forum. Oh wait...Apple has more money than God, so the answer would be YOU DO!

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The qicktime movie I am using plays fine within jmf (in fact it was generated by jmf) and it plays fine within the standard quicktime player.
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import java.awt.*;
import javax.media.*;
import javax.media.control.TrackControl;
import javax.media.Format;
import javax.media.format.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.io.*;
import javax.media.util.BufferToImage;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import javax.imageio.*;
import javax.imageio.stream.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.imageio.event.*;
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Andyble,
Thanks for the suggestion. When I use your line, my Image is no longer null (and the resulting BufferedImage is not null either), but it outputs a "black" in the jpeg file. Any other ideas? What did you mean by a -1 F for the frame rate? Did you mean changing the format to a negative 1 frame rate? I tried that, but it did not seem to have any change. Can you let me know if I misunderstood that. Thanks.
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