QuickTime playback blur

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QuickTime playback blur

Since 7.5.5 all QuickTime playback is severely blurred (bloom). This occurs in Safari with anything that uses QuickTime to play video clips, as well as in the QuickTime player. VLC will playback the same clips without problem.

Any ideas anyone?

20' iMac 2 GHz G5 - 17" iMac 800 MHz G4 - PPC 7200 / 90 MHz, Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Nov 3, 2008 12:51 PM

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Answer 1

Nov 3, 2008 1:42 PM in response to William Young2

Here is a link to an image of the problem...
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll52/hardluck_01/Picture1-2.png

The "bloom' effect occurs on everything played back by QuickTime. As you can see it is extremely blurred.

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Answer 2

fborges

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Nov 10, 2008 2:29 PM in response to William Young2

Hi!!
This message appears when trying to play a QT movie I just downloaded:

"Additional software is required to playback this media. It may be available from the QuickTime Components page. Make sure your internet network connection is active, then click to continue button to check for the software"…

I selected the Movie Inspector….at "format" the info says
Uncompressed 10-bit 4:2:2, 720 x 486, Millions
IMA 4:1, Stereo (L R), 48.000 kHz

What am I supposed to download?

Looking for help!

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Answer 3

Dec 18, 2008 5:03 PM in response to William Young2

I ran across your post in doing research with a similar issue. The movie looked fine in 3rd party applications, as well as older versions of QuickTime. There is a player preference now in QuickTime player v7.5.5 "Use High Quality video setting when available". The default setting is unchecked. Perhaps checking this on will fix things for you.

Alternately, in Movie Properties you can select the Video Track, and turn on high quality on a movie by movie basis.

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Answer 4

Dec 18, 2008 6:46 PM in response to blackbird digital studios

From what I have recently read that high quality check box is for 24 (32 ?) videos. So, checking that box won't make any difference.

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