Quicktime Freezes/Locks Up System

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Quicktime Freezes/Locks Up System

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I've recently been having a problem with Quicktime X in which it either displays a garbled video, causing massive slowdown, or freezing up and locking up the system entirely. This is not a problem with the Quicktime app itself, but its components, as the problem also affects iMovie and iTunes. My proposed solution to this is to remove quicktime and its components and reinstall them, but I have a few questions.....

A. If I extract the Quicktime Player.app file from the install disk (via Pacifist), will it also install the components, like codecs?

B. If I delete these system files, will a Combo Update of my OSX software replace them, or will they still be gone?

MacBook (Core2 Duo 2.4ghz), Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Jan 15, 2011 6:09 PM

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Answer 1

Feb 13, 2011 4:34 AM in response to Millennia07

Same problem, 10.6.6 First I thought it was iPhoto because I was trying to play videos from within that program, and I saw many posts about recent lockups in iPhoto, but then I exported a video clip from my iPhone 4 from iPhoto to try to play it externally in Quicktime, and more or less the same problem, the whole system locks up.

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Jon Walker

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Feb 13, 2011 5:54 AM in response to Millennia07

A. If I extract the Quicktime Player.app file from the install disk (via Pacifist), will it also install the components, like codecs?

No. The QT Player is a graphic interface application only. The QT framework is itself embedded within the OS. This framework and basic component package is installed by the OS installer. Additional components are either user installed or installed by Pro video editing installers.

If I delete these system files, will a Combo Update of my OSX software replace them, or will they still be gone?

Probably not unless the "Combo Update" completely replaces the entire system and includes its own component installer.

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