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xpgeek

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Quicktime browser plugin problem
« on: August 29, 2007, 06:15:11 PM »
Anyone else having any trouble with the Quicktime browser plugin? I was watching a trailer on Apple trailers just before, was working fine, and then, something happened, it just stopped working, loading the trailers with a whacky looking purple colored first frame, and just crashes the browser when I click play, in both Firefox and IE, with QT Lite and official Quicktime player. Unistalled, registry cleaned removing all traces, reinstalled, ran codec tweak tool to detect broken codecs and or bad references to codecs in the registry, did every single thing I can think of, problem still persists. But was fine this morning. Won't even open a .mov file on my hard drive in the browser's plugin now without crashing, Firefox and IE even with actual official Quicktime. I can't figure it out. And I like Quicktime too, this sucks.
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Re: Quicktime browser plugin problem
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2007, 07:08:11 PM »
I don't install Quicktime or any plugin for MOV's for that matter. If I want to watch the trailer I just download it to my computer and use VLC. :)
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Re: Quicktime browser plugin problem
« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2007, 07:45:11 PM »
Finally. Found this on Apple forums.

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I cannot get QT 7.2 (I've downloaded the latest version) to work in firefox 2.0.0.6 or in ie 6.0.29. In both browsers I get a scrambled green screen immediately followed by a crash with a message (in FF) The plugin performed an illegal operation. You are strongly reccommended to restart firefox. A similar thing happens in IE.

Yep that was my issue exactly.




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Found a lengthy thread on nVidia's website regarding this issue. It looks like the problem impacts machines running 8800GTS video cards. nVidia is blaming Apple even though it appears to be an nVidia driver issue. The work-around is to disable the directdraw acceleration in the Advanced tab of Quicktime; however, this will make video choppy.

Well I'm on a Geforce 7600GS and not an 8800, and I haven't changed video drivers since last Tuesday, new beta ones released for Bioshock, so why it worked this morning and then jus started having this issue outta nowhere is completely beyond anything I can figure out. But, wheww, the fix worked, video looks fine.

Thanks for the reply Ryan, I know I could go without it, it just, frustrated me incredibly, I couldn't figure out why it would suddenly do this outta nowhere and just the fact that there must be a cause and I can't figure it out jus royally pissed me off. lol

Anyway, so that fix works. So if anyone else has this issue outta nowhere too someday, this thread will be good to remain here.
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Re: Quicktime browser plugin problem
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2007, 07:37:17 PM »
Thanks for the update xpgeek...glad to see you weren't the only one with problems.
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