buffer overrun detected in quicktime

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buffer overrun detected in quicktime

i dont know whether this has anything to do with it but recently i did a system restore and ever since my itunes has encountered a problem.
itunes obviously needs quicktime to run so i tried opening quicktime and it came up with a message saying that a buffer overrun has been detected and has corrupted the programs internal state.
i have tried uninstalling quicktime but everytime i try it displays a message saying a fatal error happened.

can someone help me please
i am without itunes until it is fixed.

thank you.

Windows XP

Posted on Aug 29, 2007 8:25 AM

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Answer 1

Aug 29, 2007 11:13 AM in response to Smichel91

I am now having the same problem. This morning I installed the most recent windows update, and ever since I cannot view anything with Picture Viewer and cannot even update quicktime. I have tried uninstalling and downloading a new version, but the same thing re-occurs.

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kdrozd

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Aug 29, 2007 11:22 AM in response to Smichel91

I am having the same problem with the new version. When I close the QuickTime Player I get the Buffer Overrun error. It does allow me to open my video files and view them but when I close the player I get the error message. I am using the latest QuickTime in Pro version with the MPEG2 install.

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Sep 1, 2007 7:49 AM in response to Smichel91

I do not know if this helps as my problem was specifically with picture viewer but I also was unable to run the quicktime updater. I removed quick time via the windows add/remove in control panel as I had done before. But this time I did a search for all quick time files and found over 50 files (I have 4 partitions and they were hiding in one of them). So I deleted them, did a defrag (using diskeeper 10) then downloaded the latest version of quick time. Now it works perfectly.

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Smichel91 Author

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Sep 2, 2007 6:28 AM in response to mcashadow

Thank you so much for that advice.
i did everything you said and i am very happy to have my itunes working again.
your advice was very helpful.

thanks again.

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Sep 16, 2007 8:50 PM in response to mcashadow

hi, can you please elaborate on the steps here? i'm having the same exact problem and it's very frustrating. when you searched for quicktime files and removed them, did you just search your whole hard drive and delete anything that came up in the results?? i'm not too knowledgeable with troubleshooting like this but i can usually figure it out with instructions. can you please outline where i should go and what i should delete? i'm screaming at my computer...thanks a lot!!

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