Quicktime does not support Intel Indeo codecs anymore, why ?
From my understanding, support for Intel Indeo codec has been removed in Quicktime 7.5 as a solution to issue CVE-2008-1584 (
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1991 and
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1584). This seems to me an urgent measure, but since then, no better fix has been applied. If the issue has no solution, why not just avoiding to play video coming from untrusted sources when that codecs is used ?
There are still on the market many games that use internally this codec to display their characters. These games are not so old, and to continue playing with them, you have to install a version of Quicktime earlier than 7.5. The latest version of QT supporting Intel Indeo 4 is QT 7.4.5.67 and you may download it from the Apple support site ( http://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=search&q=quicktime+7.4.5).
Applying the above will leave you unprotected against the Intel video codec issue, but also from a lot of other security issue that have been solved in version 7.5 and later of QT. I do not feel therefore that having remove Intel Indeo from QT has been the cure, since it force us to stay stuck with an old version. Why not considering a more flexible solution? maybe an optionnal installation of this codec?
Does anyone knows a way to put back Intel Indeo in the latest version ?
Hope this thread will at least help people having similar issues, and avoid them to search as I should to understand how to play Intel Indeo encoded movies with QT.
Denis
There are still on the market many games that use internally this codec to display their characters. These games are not so old, and to continue playing with them, you have to install a version of Quicktime earlier than 7.5. The latest version of QT supporting Intel Indeo 4 is QT 7.4.5.67 and you may download it from the Apple support site ( http://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=search&q=quicktime+7.4.5).
Applying the above will leave you unprotected against the Intel video codec issue, but also from a lot of other security issue that have been solved in version 7.5 and later of QT. I do not feel therefore that having remove Intel Indeo from QT has been the cure, since it force us to stay stuck with an old version. Why not considering a more flexible solution? maybe an optionnal installation of this codec?
Does anyone knows a way to put back Intel Indeo in the latest version ?
Hope this thread will at least help people having similar issues, and avoid them to search as I should to understand how to play Intel Indeo encoded movies with QT.
Denis