Comments on: Apple: Nvidia causing Vista Quicktime bug! VLC proves otherwise – Quicktime code just sucks.

By: James

James — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:25:57 +0000

I got a similar problem a few days ago, after installing iaStor and Quicktime on a Dell Precisison 390 with a Nvidia Quadro FX3450 graphics card. The system is an up-to-date WinXP SP3. It began to crash randomly after a few hours usage.
See the full problem description at:
http://handysnippetsnotebook.blogspot.com/2009/10/updates-quicktime-nv idia-quadro-and.html
The only action that fixed the crashes was removing Quicktime altogether. I hope Apple fixes this bug.

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Off the Cuff: Quicktime blame tag, Stickam Porn and stuff — Shooting at Bubbles — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:07:03 +0000

[...] a VLC user myself I can attest to that as well. not a smart move Apple to leave this unfixed. [via istartedsomething.com and I thieved his graphic as well - hope you don't mind [...]

By: steve

steve — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:22:44 +0000

VLC Player works good but the converted quality video is not 100%. I sold my HP laptop and bought an IMac, everthing works perfect, and finally got the Microsuck monkey off my back.

By: SnottyNozeBratt

SnottyNozeBratt — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:14:34 +0000

OH GOOD GRIEF. I ran into these problems in June of last year with my new dell precision 390 – sata array workstation. Now it is FEBRUARY of 2009. I cannot google, or Apple.com a solution.

I’m a student and work in digital video, good grief I need quicktime to access many things from instructors and clients.

Can anyone suggest an alternative app for quicktime?

upload, download, upgrade, shut off and reboot nightmare…. how many hours to find a solution that will not arrive? Apple needs to rename the app Qrazytime…..

By: Vishu

Vishu — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:37:35 +0000

Hi all I had the same problem with my Asus Laptop, VLC player and KLM codecs solved the problems , Now .mov works fine for me

By: Susan Dall

Susan Dall — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:12:51 +0000

You are a life saver!!! I was having so many problems with Quicktime and I have an HP laptop and I really needed to watch about 7 hours of tutorials…I spent so many hours uploading, downloading and reloading….I downloaded VLC in minutes and was up and going..should have looked sooner.

Thank you!!!

By: steve

steve — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:09:27 +0000

SP1 did not work for me, I also tried QT 7 Pro, and that hotfix mentioned above, and those didnt work either (same blue screen – buffer overrun issues). My Nvidia laptop does work well otherwise, so I removed quicktime, downloaded a file converter to make my Kodak camera .mov’s compatible with Media Player (.avi’s I think). The quality is a little bit compromised, (just a litte less sharp) but since I dont download or watch full length movies, (or use I-Tunes) on my Laptop, the fix works for me. But I can tell you next time I am going to get an Apple, and get away from this all consuming Microsoft madness.

By: Millie

Millie — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:09:53 +0000

QT 7 Pro worked on my Vista Ultimatem, SATA, Nvidia laptop until some software update (not a windows update or a QT Update; it seems to be an update of Adobe Creative Suite CS3 Web Premium which did the damage, although that doesn’t make much sense), Now it crashes to blue screen. I know I can use other media players to play video, but I used QT Pro to export my AVI videos to other fornats (usually MOV but not always) and to trim, filter, resize, rotate, etc. It is much more efficient at that than Premiere etc. What lightweight alternatives are there?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:19:03 +0000

Can anyone say for certain whether SP1 has fixed this problem (with latest drivers and quicktime)? I’d like to use itunes again but I’m scared of messing up my RAID again!!!

By: steve

steve — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:32:13 +0000

Ari’s fix did not work for me. still got buffer overrun upon trying to play .mov files…..this HP and Vista has been a nightmare of malfunction. I will be selling this laptop for half what I paid for it and buying a dell or Gateway with XP so i can have a machine that works right once again…..anyone interested?