Error -2048 The File is not a movie

Photoshop TV is a Flash movie and requires Flash Player 8. QuickTime can play older Flash movies but not the newest format, so if QT is set to handle Flash movies, you'll get an error. Go to the QuickTime Control Panel, click on the File Types tab, expand the Miscellaneous catagory, and if Flash media is selected, uncheck it. Confirm that you have Flash 8 Player installed, restart your browser and try your Photoshop TV again.

Hope this helps.

I can't tell since it appears that the downloadable episodes aren't free. You may need to contact the producers of the videos and ask them.

I don't believe I have Flash Player 8 in my computer. I'll have to find it and download it I guess. 🙂 (I did a search for "Flash Player 8" and nothing came up). 🙂

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

Regards.

Can you post the site that you are getting the download from? Where is the download getting saved to, as in, is the HD partitioned, or do you have more than one HD

Hi,

I took a look at http://www.photoshoptv.com/ and was able to view episode 35 with Flash 8 (streaming), and download the .MP4 file.

First the Flash 8 issue. I have the Flash 8 plugin installed & was able to view the episode in Safari, Mozilla & Firefox. What Browser are you using? After installing Flash 8, did you restart your browser (sometimes you have to).

The .MP4 file that I downloaded uses h.264 compression for the video and AAC for the audio, so you should probably make sure you are using Quicktime 7.0 or higher to view it. (it took a while to download, btw... the file was about 100MB - so make sure you got the whole thing.)

The other option is on the Flash 8 streaming page. It says that you can use iTunes 5 or higher and subscribe to the podcast:

"If the above link doesn’t work and you already have iTunes installed you can subscribe by clicking on the advanced menu option at the top of your iTunes player and select “Subscribe to Podcast” - in the window that appears type or paste the following address: http://feeds.feedburner.com/photoshoptv/ - You can also subscribe by browsing to the music store and searching for “Photoshop TV” in the podcast directory search."

Hope this helps
---Kurt

Try to open the movie with another player such as VLC Media Player. If it will play there, you're probably good to go. If you're then interested in exploring the problem further, you can in VLC's information windows take a look at the codecs used and post that information here and perhaps we can figure out what might be missing from QuickTime.

Regards.

How do I look at the codecs (not sure what those are! LOL but that's another issue) so I can post them here and maybe see why I can't watch the episode in QT?

Open the movie in VLC and go to the Info menu command under the Window menu. In the Properties window that will open, expand the items (click on the triangles), and the codec information will be next to the "codec" label.

BTW, "codec" is short for "compressor/decompressor" and refers to the software use to reduce the file size and bit rate of the video and audio. Uncompressed video, in particular, has a lot of data, far too much to be transferred via Internet in most cases (and via DVD, even, for feature-length movies), so some form of compression is required. There are many different compressors, so any playback software must contain the equivalent decompressor to be able to play a given movie.

Cheers.