Quick time player

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"If i try to stream"

Are you trying +to stream+ a video or trying *to watch* same? If trying +to watch+, then make sure you have the following installed:
Flip4Mac

VLC Media Player

Perian (AVI and FLV support)

Repair permissions & restart your computer after installation.

If the above does not work, then please post a link/URL of the streaming video you are trying to view.

If you are trying +to stream+ a video, then please post back w/more details of what you are actually trying to do.

Quicktime with a ? generally refers to Flash Video.

The latest version of Adobe FlashPlayer can be obtained from here:

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1ProdVersion=ShockwaveFlash

(You can check here: http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/about/ to see which version you should install for your Mac and OS.

Note that Adobe requires you to uninstall any previous version of Flash Player, using the uninstaller from here (make sure you use the correct one!):

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14157

and also that you follow the instructions closely, such as closing ALL applications first before installing. You must also carry out a permission repair after installing anything from Adobe.

It's not a FLv (Flash Video). It's an h.263 and the audio codec is QDisgn. You should be able to video in Quicktime...mmm?

Message was edited by: David M Brewer

Strange you can't view the video. Had no problem whatsoever. Thank you for providing a link. Here is a direct video link: http://gruposazon.net/images/Trumpet.mov

The above should open up directly into your browser. Check your QT streaming settings:
System Preferences>Quicktime>Advanced

Click on the MIME Settings button.

In the next window that opens up make sure that Streaming-Streaming movies is enabled (checked).
While you’re at it make sure all the boxes are enabled by clicking on the corresponding triangles so that they are pointed down.
This will show the “hidden” boxes especially the Video box. This box will enable you to play .avi files.

Click the OK button.

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Now click Streaming
Your settings you should be (as starters):

Streaming Speed: Automatic

Make sure Enable Instant-On is enabled (checked).

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Now click on Browser
Make sure:

Play movies automatically
Save movies in disk cache

Are both enabled.

Movie download Cache Size: Slider set all the way to the left.

Some of these have been mentioned already, but let's take the scattergun approach!

These are the downloads and the settings you need in order to view/hear/play pretty much everything that the net can throw at you: The setup described below has proved repeatedly successful on both PPC and Intel macs, but nothing in life carries a guarantee!

It is known to work in the great majority of cases with Safari 3.0.4, 3.1, 3.1.2, QT 7.3, 7.4.x and 7.5.5 and OS 10.4.11, and should also work with OS 10.5.5.

Download and install ( or re-install even if you already had them) the latest versions, suitable for your flavor of Mac, of:

RealPlayer 11.1 for Mac from:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/15540

Flip4Mac WMV Player from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx (Windows Media Player for the Mac is no longer supported, even by Microsoft)

Perian from http://perian.org/

You should read this support page http://perian.org/#support in case you need to delete older codecs.

The latest version of Adobe FlashPlayer can be obtained from here:

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1ProdVersion=ShockwaveFlash

(You can check here: http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/about/ to see which version you should install for your Mac and OS.

Note that Adobe requires you to uninstall any previous version of Flash Player, using the uninstaller from here (make sure you use the correct one!):

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14157

and also that you follow the instructions closely, such as closing ALL applications first before installing. You must also carry out a permission repair after installing anything from Adobe.

Some users have mentioned that the latest Flash Player versions (v.9.0.115.0 and 9.0.124.0) in some cases conflict with Leopard 10.5.4, and that they have needed to revert to v. 9.0.47. This can be downloaded from here:

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14266&sliceId=1

But the latest version 10 of FlashPlayer seems to work fine.

You should also ensure that you have downloaded and installed the correct version for your Mac of Security Update 2008-007. (N.B. Security Updates require both a restart and a permission repair.)

In Macintosh HD/Library/Quicktime/ delete any files relating to DivX (Perian already has them). However it should be noted that Perian is not an internet plugin and will not play DivX files imbedded on a website. For that you will need the DivX Player browser plugin available from http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/

Now go to Safari Preferences/Security, and tick the boxes under Web Content (all 4 of them) to enable Java.

Lastly open Audio Midi Setup (which you will find in the Utilities Folder of your Applications Folder) and click on Audio Devices. Make sure that both Audio Input and Audio Output, under Format, are set to 44100 Hz, and that you have selected 'Built in Audio'.

Important: Now repair permissions and restart.

You should also consider having the free VLC Player from http://www.videolan.org/ in your armory, as this plays almost anything that DVD Player might not.

There is an additional 'fix' you could try if you are having problems with Flash and Quicktime, depending on which type of Mac you have:

On Intel Macs, make sure that you are not running Safari in Rosetta. You can check this, and change it, in the Get Info window.

On PPC Macs, go to the Hard Disk/Library/Internet Plug-Ins folder, and drag the file 'QuickTime Plugin. webplugin' to the desktop. Quit and restart Safari. If things have improved you can trash that file. If they haven't put it back, as the lack of this plug-in can cause QT content in some widgets to cease functioning.

And there is an additional kid on the block: SilverLight. Microsoft has created their own version of what a replacement for Flash could be. You can read more about it here:

http://silverlight.net/

So, if you go to any sites that have been designed for this new Silverlight stuff, you can download the plug-in from here (but make certain that you are downloading SilverLight v.1.0 for OS X (10.4.8 upwards) if you are using a PPC Mac. Version 2 only works with Intel Macs:

http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/

Recommendation: Close all applications before installing any of the above, repair permissions, reboot, and repair permissions again.

Open the HD/Library/Internet Plug-Ins folder and drag the QuickTime Plugin. webplugin to your Desktop.
Quit and relaunch your browser and try the page again.

My older Mac Quicksilver 933 computer had "QuicktimePro" installed in it.
And, I never used it. But now I've got a new iMac and I have no idea how to transfer QuicktimePro from that older computer to my new IMac.

Then again, it just might be already in my new iMac because when I downloaded from the old Mac to the new one, I did go thru an Apple procedure that was recommended to me by Apple.
I'm doing some video editing with iMovie and I understand that QuicktimePro has some features
that iMovie doesn't have so I've now got to find some way to "exhume" QuicktimePro to my newer iMac somehow, someway!.

In the meantime.....any suggestions?

thanks

*Salvatore Pedi*


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