Video clips will not play in iPhoto 7.1.5.
Whether they are QuickTime or AVI format, Quicktime Player (v.10.0) does not launch.
Yet the same clips work perfectly in iPhoto 5.0.4 (Quicktime Player 7.6.4)
Can anyone give a reason?
Because iPhoto 7 is looking for Quicktime 7, that's why.
Because iPhoto 7 is looking for Quicktime 7, that's why.
Terence
Thanks for your comment. Both my Snow Leopard desktops have iPhoto. 7.1.5 and QT player 10.0. The server always tells me that my Software is up to date, yet it seems from your comment they are not compatible?
And if I export those Video clips from iPhoto. 5 directly to a Snow Leopard folder (rather than transferring the whole iPhoto. Library), then QT Player 10.0 does open and run them!
Could it be that when iPhoto 7 updates the newly imported iPhoto 5 Library, it renders any included video clips unreadable to QT Player 10.0?
I'm guessing that one machine has both Quicktime 7 and Quicktime 10. iPhoto 08 (that's v7) was released before QT10, and so doesn't know it exists. So it's looking for QT7. Solution: either upgrade iphoto to iPhoto 09 or 11 or install QT 7
Terence
I have now installed QT7 alongside QT10 - and the OS auto-selects the appropriate version, depending on whether the video clip is within the iPhoto 7.1.5 Library, or elsewhere. Curious!
There is a knowledge base article that suggests that QT7 is needed for "older media". Maybe so, but I only have modern AVI and QT movie clips, which suggests that QT7 is also addressing a compatibility issue in iPhoto 7.1.5.
Thanks
That's correct. iPhoto 08 predates QTX and doesn't know of its existence, so it doesn't look for it.
Terence
Thank-you for that confirmation.
I can now put this small problem to bed!
video clips not playing
