Safari 5 breaks embedded Quicktime player

I am having the same problem with .mov files, and my server is all MAC!!!

I tried the Little Snitch config, also tried shutting it completely off. No difference, the movie player interface will not even load in. Sometimes I get the question mark, sometimes not. Works fine in all other browsers AND in ALL browsers on Windows INCLUDING Safari!!!

Have made a bug report to Apple. Apparently they're well aware of it but too busy on whatever.

Has anyone tried this with Lion? If it works on Lion, then apparently it's an "incentive" for reluctant people to upgrade.

I just tried that too. While it does load the preview jpg, and the fancier flash-like player interface, it still won't play in Safari!! Furthermore, when I load the new coding into Firefox, it plays the video once every ten frames!!! Choppy as heck. Unusable. Is this so things will "play" on iPhones and iPads?

I'm about a minute away from converting all the videos and players to flash. Apple's attempt at "outdoing" flash is a big bust.

I tried the open page in Firefox first and it did work for me. I am wondering if it is truly a Firefox issue and not a Safari issue?

I uninstalled Firefox and the problem is solved.

Interesting. I've never even installed Firefox on this machine (Macbook Air, running Lion with Server/ Mac OS X 10.7.2), and I seem to have a version of "the problem", at least for a while. Safari version is 5.1.2. My Quicktime plugin version is 7.7.1.

I started off by visiting a site (http://www.sharperpencil.com.au/work_tv.html) and clicking on the various video links there. I was initially confronted with Quicktime logos and informed that I needed to install Quicktime to run them. (***?). Huh. So I went and pulled up my 'Installed Plug-ins' tab and verified that I had the Quicktime plugin installed (indeed I did), and then switched back to the tab with the links, and lo and behold, the videos were there. O-kay. Repeated the experiment with the next group of videos (there are 3 'groups' of three videos each there), and the same thing happened. O-kay. Tried it one more time, and... a couple of the vids were loading for me, the third wasn't loading (initially) and displayed the Quicktime logo with the question mark in it. In the meantime, the first vids that I'd initially had problems with continued to work fine.

So in my case...

1. There seems to be some sort of cacheing involved - once a vid is available/visible, it seems to stay that way.

2. Since I don't even have Firefox installed and still was having a variant of 'the problem', blaming this issue entirely on Firefox seems to be inappropriate. Not to say that Firefox might not be involved for some people somewhere, some of the time.

3. I'm not sure if I just needed to be more patient and wait a bit longer, or just needed to switch to 'any' other tab and then switch back to trigger 'the right thing' to happen, or if there was some magic about looking specifically at the 'Installed Plug-ins' page to trigger 'the right thing' to happen, but apparently one of those situations applied, and was sufficient (in my case) to Make Things Work.

4. For what it's worth, my firewall is turned on, and all sharing services are blocked.

Hope this report helps somebody somewhere.

I still had a bit of an issue after uninstalling Fire Fox, but discovered it was how I named my movie file for the host. The host never said that names needed to be a certain length, but on Safari they did.

It does seem to happen for a variety of reasons.

After the latest Safari update I can't even see Quicktime embeds at Apple's own website! LOL!

I've done a full Safari reset too. Firefox and Chrome have no issues.

Sounds like someone at Apple's Safari division needs to speed-dial the Quicktime boys