Won't play Apple "Get a Mac" ads in Safari

I was hoping 2.1 would fix this, but it hasn't. I am unable to play the "Get a Mac" ad movies on the Apple website through Safari. I get a "Movie Format Not Supported" error. Huh? The Apple iPhone doesn't support Apple Quicktime? That's like having a Macintosh that can't run OSX.
Is this a bug or does Apple's right hand really not know what its left hand is doing?

I also have the same issue --- very odd, any help from anyone would be greatly appreciated. It's almost comical that apple's quicktime is a movie format that is "not supported" by the iphone...

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I have QuickTime Player 6.5.2. I want to watch the happy Get A Mac ads and can't. I get audio, but no video and am told "Software not available on QuickTime Server." This is my home computer, but even on the computers in the office I can't seem to watch them. What version of this software do I need?

You need QuickTime 7, which requires Mac OS X 10.39 or newer.
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I'm using 10.7.3
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iTunes won't play my video anymore and it's been a while I'm not sure when it occured if it's after an update to snow leopard or iTunes updates...
When I double click a video I get "This movie requires QuickTime, which is not supported by this version of iTunes." ??
...and cannot convert the option doesn't work I get this other message when trying to convert a version for APPLE TV in advanced menu "None of the selected files were converted because they could not be found."??
But the movies are quicktime movies in my library and the MPEG-4 plays in iTunes but not on APPLE TV.
From all my videos I get one only going through APPLE TV and when I try opening it it says error occured why opening and never works??
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The 32-bit solution has never, I repeat, never worked for me. I've even done a full reinstall on a clean drive of OSX Lion with a fresh install of iTunes downloading a video of "The Big Bang Theory" that just came out this last thursday and still get the error (just finished the full reinstall to a clean drive now and, no, I didn't do any backup restores.)
The only solution I've found is to remove the video from iTunes, without deleting the file, then import the file back into iTunes.
Switching to 32-bit iTunes to run the file causes iTunes to tell me it needs to open iTunes to play the file then it sits and waits for itself to open until I cancel the process. The video then plays without audio.
I have noticed that I can stream the files to my Apple TV to play even while getting the error trying to play them on the computer I downloaded the files onto.
As a result of this error, I've had to reduce the amount of content I purchase from iTunes. no more buying whole seasons at a time unless I do it at the start of the season. Even then, I'm reconsidering it. The amount of work required to get the files into a playable status on the computer is simply too great on an on-going basis.

Nokia N95-8GB, won't play Apple Lossless.

Hello All,
I have a large number of tunes ripped to Apple Lossless (via iTunes). I've tried everything I can think off, but my new N95 just won't play them. There are two problems: a) the tracks end up on the device as "Artist:Unknown" and "Album:Unknown". and b), the tracks won't play on the phone (the elapsed time just sticks at -:--).
Nokia Music Manager either just hangs or copies the tracks to the phone. ANd I get the same results if I copy from my PC via "Data Transfer" on the USB.
Does anyone know how I can get these files onto the phone so that it'll play 'em? Or can anyone recommend a better format-changer so that I can downgrade them.
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People in the know use analog....
But regardless, Apple Lossless is yet another compression algorithm as such it will tamper with the audio quality.
Not to get into that debate, but if you think you are getting "lossless" you are "clueless". In a good way, we are the victims of the storage problems.
To accurately depict real sound, you will need infinite amounts of bandwidth and storage.
So now that we have settled that, what we are talking about is how much is "good enough quality".
What can people REALLY perceive. I'll bet good money that if you record the same song in different codecs and bitrates you will be hard pressed to find people that can pick any codec over another at over 300 kbps. At this bitrate it's very difficult to tell MPEG4 AAC to MPEG-1 Layer 3, or eAAC+, never mind WAV or Apple Lossless.
If you don't believe me try it. encode the same song into MPEG4 AAC, MP3, eAAC+ at 300 kbps then also put the WAV and Apple lossless. Create a playlist and play them back through a good set of headphones or home stereo system at random or with someone else selecting the different versions. BTW if your pair of headphones cost you less than 200 pounds then you won't be able to tell the difference.
Since I'm already compromising by going digital then all I have to decide is how much I'm willing to compromise. If I want high Q, I have my home set-up.
640K Should be enough for everybody
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Asatoran, Good ideal. I went there with the question and got this response:
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Can some bright person please explain this?
I have an NTSC project, 90 mins in length. I made an m2v file in Compressor (at several different presets, all with the same result), from which I authored a DVD in DVDSP.
The resulting DVD plays fine in a DVD player onto a TV, but stutters slightly, and unpredictably, when played on any of my three Macs, (and on a PC as well!). The stuttering will not necessarily be in the same place in the timeline every time. The stuttering shows up on horizontal pans (there is a lot of rostrum artwork in this project, so lots of smooth pans across drawings). Now, when I look at the m2v file directly in MPEGStreamclip, I see the stuttering as well. Also, when I look directly at the footage in the FCP timeline, sure enough, there is occasional stuttering there too, but here's the thing - when I look at the direct output from the timeline simultaneously on a TV monitor, there is no stuttering.
I tried putting compression markers every 10 frames in the worst affected areas, but it made no difference. Examining the m2v file closely, I can see all the frames are as they should be - there is no evidence of the image being out of place, so it's a playback issue, not a compression issue. It seems the computer dispaly cannot keep up with the playback, even though the computer itself can (hence the correct display on a TV).
I regularly play commercial DVDs in these Macs, with no problem whatsoever. I am now trying to produce a commercial DVD which will play equally well in a computer as in a DVD player. Where am I going wrong?
(I regularly make DVDs from material sourced either in the PAL format or an HD format, following the same workflow, and have not experienced this problem before. I don't know whether that is of any significance.)
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Well, I tried that on a section, and I'm afraid it may have been worse than I had originally. These are the settings in Compressor that I tried. Am I still getting something wrong?
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Estimated file size: 2.2 GB/hour of source
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          Padding: None
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I find the ability to play QT movies on iPhone is very inconsistent, even when movies meet the requirements iPhone might play it once then complain about compatibility another time on the same file.

The page and the file both have to be designed for the iPhone. Like this one.
http://www.makentosh.com/Site/Movie.html
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Thanks this was useful. I have been ripping my audiobooks and I was finding that they would get uploaded to iCloud in the process, which in itself was fine, but then iTunes would not let me change the media type to Audiobook, which is annoying as it effects how iTunes treats the media. Like showing you the skip back 10 seconds button.
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I could not find any current software workarounds or patches (Apple seems silent on this as a "problem").
Upgrading hardware is insulting and (frankly) impossible. Why should I get new hardware that works perfectly well?
I was going to get an Apple TV for Christmas, although not if new products cannot be used with my current hardware. I would rather go back to all Microsoft hardware and software than constantly deal with troubleshooting Apple hardware and software.
I'm going to uninstall iTunes v 12 and reinstall v 11 to see if that works.
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