AVI files in browsers don't play (QT logo with question mark)
Hello all,
I'm encountering a weird problem.
I don't know when it began, but I cannot play .avi videos (containing ANY codec) in any browser anymore.
In Safari I get a faded QuickTime logo with a question mark on top, and in Camino or Firefox I get a QuickTime logo without anything, as if it were still loading.
Camino/FF also say "video/x-msvideo Object" in the title bar, and calling aboutlugin shows that that MIME type is (supposedly) taken care of by the QuickTime plugin.
Opening the .avi files through QuickTime Player works perfectly, and dragging them onto Safari's icon (whilst pressing command and option to "force" it to open it), it works. On Camino this doesn't happen, but neither browser opens them through the network, not even putting the video on the local webserver and using http://localhost/blah.avi.
I've installed Perian, 3ivX and DivX. I manually uninstalled DivX (especially the QT components and the plugin) and 3ivX using the latter's uninstaller. Perian, anyway, should be enough.
In fact, I also dragged Perian.component out of /Library/Quicktime, and both browsers DID show the QuickTime progress bar but did not play
anything, neither audio nor video. QuickTime Player did the same.
Putting Perian.component back into the QuickTime folder, the files play again in QT Player, but not in the browsers.
As I said, this happens ONLY with .avi files. Any other video format, including .wmv, works perfectly.
Just for the sake of it, I created a brand new additional user and tried it: .avi videos don't play in broser for the new user either.
I also downloaded and reinstalled QuickTime, and checked the MIME type settings in the QuickTime pane in System Preferences, resetting them to the default. I also ran AppleJack, just in case. Still no luck whatsoever.
I'm running OS X 10.4.8 (with QuickTime 7.1.3) on an iMac Core 2 Duo.
Could someone suggest me how to fix this problem? I've already googled up, but although other people have mentioned a similar problem (although never related to a single file type), I haven't been unable to track the issue down since I doubt that the QT plugin leaves any logs (I haven't found them anywhere, at least.)
Thank you in advance
iMac Intel C2D Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2 GB of ram
I'm encountering a weird problem.
I don't know when it began, but I cannot play .avi videos (containing ANY codec) in any browser anymore.
In Safari I get a faded QuickTime logo with a question mark on top, and in Camino or Firefox I get a QuickTime logo without anything, as if it were still loading.
Camino/FF also say "video/x-msvideo Object" in the title bar, and calling aboutlugin shows that that MIME type is (supposedly) taken care of by the QuickTime plugin.
Opening the .avi files through QuickTime Player works perfectly, and dragging them onto Safari's icon (whilst pressing command and option to "force" it to open it), it works. On Camino this doesn't happen, but neither browser opens them through the network, not even putting the video on the local webserver and using http://localhost/blah.avi.
I've installed Perian, 3ivX and DivX. I manually uninstalled DivX (especially the QT components and the plugin) and 3ivX using the latter's uninstaller. Perian, anyway, should be enough.
In fact, I also dragged Perian.component out of /Library/Quicktime, and both browsers DID show the QuickTime progress bar but did not play
anything, neither audio nor video. QuickTime Player did the same.
Putting Perian.component back into the QuickTime folder, the files play again in QT Player, but not in the browsers.
As I said, this happens ONLY with .avi files. Any other video format, including .wmv, works perfectly.
Just for the sake of it, I created a brand new additional user and tried it: .avi videos don't play in broser for the new user either.
I also downloaded and reinstalled QuickTime, and checked the MIME type settings in the QuickTime pane in System Preferences, resetting them to the default. I also ran AppleJack, just in case. Still no luck whatsoever.
I'm running OS X 10.4.8 (with QuickTime 7.1.3) on an iMac Core 2 Duo.
Could someone suggest me how to fix this problem? I've already googled up, but although other people have mentioned a similar problem (although never related to a single file type), I haven't been unable to track the issue down since I doubt that the QT plugin leaves any logs (I haven't found them anywhere, at least.)
Thank you in advance
iMac Intel C2D Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2 GB of ram
