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Quicktime codecs for reading XDCAM footage

Recently updated the software on my Mac Pro tower (circa 2008) and now Quicktime only plays audio of XDCAM footage, but not the video.

Quicktime plays regular mov, mp4 and mpeg videos just fine so I've isolated the probem to just XDCAM 1080 24p footage.


I think the codecs for reading XDCAM footage were lost or overwritten during the update, is there any way to reinstall or retrieve them?

If not what are the proper codecs for Quicktime to play XDCAM footage?

Quicktime-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Nov 11, 2013 2:55 PM

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User profile for user: makbookpro
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Nov 13, 2013 12:45 PM in response to Jpath609

I also had a similar problem to most people here. Cannot playback XDCAM files after upgrading from 10.5.8 to Snow Leopard 10.6.8. I called Apple who suggested a fresh install of Snow Leopard without upgrading the 'ProApps QuickTime Codecs 1.0.3' and copy the contents of the Library/QuickTime form the fresh install into my QT library. However, I decided to seek the file(s) that is the cause which is the AppleHDV.Component file. I copied the faulty one to my desktop (so I had a backup) and downloaed:


PerianXDCam.component.zip -> PerianXDCam.component

PerianHDV.component.zip -> PerianHDV.component


from this website: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/164630.html


Once unzipped, copy into the Library/QuickTime folder and this should solve your problem, until Apple and Sony resolve this issue.


Good Luck,

MAK

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