Strange Quicktime Error

[tb582]

Hi Guys, I come to you as my last resort, I need to get my problem figured out quickly. Rather then re-type and explain everything I have quite the interesting thread going over a msfn.org on my problem. Any help you guys can give I would REALLY appreciate it.

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=67202

[tb582]

Is there no one that can solve this problem?

[Cornucopia]

Sounds like your PC has some damaged (corrupted) drivers, and only a QT movie is instigating a procedural call to a portion that is corrupt.

You can verify this by copying the file to disc and trying it out on somebody else's computer. If it's ok there, you may need to "repair" or replace/reinstall the driver(s) in question, reistall the OS, reformat the HD, or get a completely different HD, depending on how bad and pervasive the error is.

Scott

[havaham]

It might be quicktime's recently played file list. Maybe it's looking for a file recently played on a removable disk and now it can't handle not finding that file.

In Quicktime:
File -----> Open Recent -----> Clear Menu

worth a shot i guess...

[tb582]

Sounds like your PC has some damaged (corrupted) drivers, and only a QT movie is instigating a procedural call to a portion that is corrupt.

You can verify this by copying the file to disc and trying it out on somebody else's computer. If it's ok there, you may need to "repair" or replace/reinstall the driver(s) in question, reistall the OS, reformat the HD, or get a completely different HD, depending on how bad and pervasive the error is.

Scott

As I said on the msfn forum it playes fine on other computers, and it even plays fine if I copy it to my external hdd, but as soon as I copy it back to my desktop or anywhere else but the external hdd it crashes.

[Cornucopia]

Sorry, didn't give it a thorough read the 1st time around.
I still agree with that other thread guy about it being corruption of the HD.

Since QT isn't hooked into the system (at least not like Directshow), you could try this:

Do a VERY thorough disc scan, attempting to fix any bad sectors.
Make sure no stub of QT is running.
Rename all your QT system files to ??????.???.bad.
Then, remove the references to QT in your registration database.

Now, AFA your computer is concerned, you don't have QT installed (yet the spots on the HD where the QT files reside are still used up).

Reinstall a fresh copy of QT. Then you can delete all the "bad" files.

Note: This is not easy to do and requires some knowledge of Reg Database, etc. But if you've made it this far and know about Dumps, you probably can do it.

Hopefully that's all it is.

Scott

[tb582]

Do a VERY thorough disc scan, attempting to fix any bad sectors.
Make sure no stub of QT is running.
Rename all your QT system files to ??????.???.bad.
Then, remove the references to QT in your registration database.

Now, AFA your computer is concerned, you don't have QT installed (yet the spots on the HD where the QT files reside are still used up).

Reinstall a fresh copy of QT. Then you can delete all the "bad" files.

Note: This is not easy to do and requires some knowledge of Reg Database, etc. But if you've made it this far and know about Dumps, you probably can do it.

Hopefully that's all it is.

Scott

Perhaps you could explain this a little bit more, as far as what system files to rename? Why rename the system files vs just deleting them right off the bat? And what qt files to remove from the registry, ie do I just search for qt within regedit and delete anything it finds?

[jimmalenko]

If you didn't understand what he wrote first time around, I'd forget about doing it

It's not exactly something you can walk someone through, as you need to know exactly what files QT is using (DLLs and such), as well as a reasonable knowledge of registry editing (not for the faint of heart) as you can quite easily bugger something up.

[tb582]

lol well how does anyone know each and every dll that quicktime uses?

[jimmalenko]

lol well how does anyone know each and every dll that quicktime uses?

exactly ! There's the challenge !

Judging by what I've read (I read the whole thread), I'd be inclined to echo what they've said for a few pages and say that it's gotta be something to do with your internal hard drive. For some reason there's a corruption taking place whenever you try to play the files off your OS drive, yet an external drive works fine. I'd be inclined to either grin and bear it and just play these files off your external hard drive, or alternatively, do the last resort that fixes all problems - reformat and reinstall windows from the ground up. Whilst not entirely practical, it'll cure all ills in one fowl swoop

[tb582]

Do you think running xp recovery console would fix it?

[jimmalenko]

Do you think running xp recovery console would fix it?

It sounds like the guys over there are running at a lot higher (lower?) level than I am, so I'd suggest you ask them.