Question mark appears on Quicktime icon

Those files that display that icon are probably Flash video formats and the flash Player browser plug-in should open them and not QuickTime.
QuickTime Control Panel / Browser tab / MIME Settings button
Under Miscellaneous remove the check mark for Flash Video
Quit and relaunch your browser and try the Web page again.

Using Software Update, I upgraded my version of QuickTime, OS X, etc. I'm having the same exact problem: on some websites, rather than a picture, I see the QuickTime Q logo with a question mark inside of it. I'm seeing this error in both Firefox and Safari (latest versions of each).

Sabrina

Same fix but a different location on a Mac.
Use the Advanced tab to find the MIME Settings button.

I have tried the fix listed and I am still experiencing the problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

This fix worked for me. Thanks!

same with me, upgraded to quick time 7.2 and in firefox can not play quick time movies (also on apple.com ) gets "Question Mark" ... although IE is able to play quicktime movies... this is horrible....

I also have checked those settings, but I cannot play any Quicktime movies in Firefox or IE7. The box tells me I need Quicktime 5 or higher and I just upgraded to the latest version, 7. I need to view movies for one of my online classes and it is not working!! Please help?????

This is my solution:
Open Quicktime>edit>preferences>browser>mime settings>miscellaneous>"Unclick Flash media"
Open Quicktime>edit>preferences>file types>miscellaneous>"Unclick Flash media"`

So far so good.

The problem with this fix is I am not trying to view flash movies, I am trying to view regular .mov movies and I am still getting the question mark.

Post a website where your getting this

The trailers page on the actual Apple website, also while trying to view a sample movie for a Darwin Streaming Server at www.deshai.org/sampmov.html

Message was edited by: Deshai

Hi Guys,

Did anyone find a solution to this? I've found that on a PC which is happy to play MPEG1s, Sorrenson etc.. in the Quicktime plugin won't play H.264s (I get the ? of death) - Can I find what error is causing this somewhere?

I've re-installed twice but to no avail, I can play the H.264 file if I first download it but not in the browser (IE6/Mozilla 1.7.13/Firefox 2.0.0.7)

Out of around 150 computers this has only occurred on 2 (unfortunately one in upper management).

I've got hold of one of them and would be open to any ideas (except re-installing the OS)

Thanks,

Tristan.

It seems that on some PCs Quicktime can handle source URLs with spaces, and on others it can handle MPEG1s with spaces in the source URL, but not H.264s with spaces in the URL.

This completely puzzles me, why does it work with MPEG1s but not H264s?

To re-iterate, one of my PCs will happily play all embedded quicktimes, with or without spaces in the URL, the other will play MPEG1s and H.264s if there are no spaces in the URL, and will play MPEG1s but not H264s with spaces...

Fix: Remove spaces from H.264 URLs as this makes no sense to me...

Under Preferences, Browser, Mime Settings, Miscellaneous shows checks for: SMIL 1.0 and QuickTime HTML.
Under File Types, Miscellaneous only shows SMIL 1.0 checked.
Explorer 6.0 works okay, but Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.9 and Netscape 9.0 still show QuickTime w/? everywhere.