Problem with QuickTime on 10.3.2 and Safari...

[hob]

I've got a little problem - fresh installation of 10.3, on my new PowerBook - and restored data from my old iBook...

I can play .MOV's and .AVI's etc. in quicktime that are already loaded on my computer, like some trailers etc. with no problem. But when I try to open files I've downloaded over file-sharing (like other trailers ) it says "Quicktime cannot understand this file". And when I try to play trailers in Safari I get the Quicktime logo where the film should be and then the beachball of death!! Safari crashes...

I tried reinstalling Quicktime 6.5, but to no avail...

Any ideas??

 

[superbovine]

sounds like a codec issue.

http://www.qtcentral.de/quicktime/codecs/

you might try http://www.videolan.org/ or windows media, but i won't install that unless you really had too.

 

[OnceUGoMac]

sounds like a codec issue.

http://www.qtcentral.de/quicktime/codecs/

you might try http://www.videolan.org/ or windows media, but i won't install that unless you really had too.

Apologies for my ignorance. But there are a lot of codecs on this page. Should I download one or many of them?

 

[hob]

sounds like a codec issue.

http://www.qtcentral.de/quicktime/codecs/

you might try http://www.videolan.org/ or windows media, but i won't install that unless you really had too.

Surely it would have come pre-installed!! I installed WMP and DiVX anyway... what else do you recon I should do??

UPDATE: Ok, the only files I can open are ones I saved through QuickTime on my old iBook off the Apple Trailers site... everything else tries to download a codec then says the apple server is unavailable....!!

HELLLLLLLLLLP!

 

[crazzyeddie]

Ive been having no luck with using ANY divx vids on 10.3.2. I've installed the plugin 5 times, and it still wont work. I end up playing all those vids (that previously worked!) in VLC.

 

[superbovine]

yeah i just use vlc too