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phatbasey
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1390 Posts
1/05
Posted - Feb 8 2005 : 12:56AM
Quicktime plays choppy no matter what I do? I have reinstalled numerous times? Any ideas? WMP and any other online audio programs play perfect.

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DenverDon
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Firmly Embedded in Depravity
5914 Posts
7/02
Posted - Feb 8 2005 : 2:04AM
Faster computer??

I've had no problems with Quicktime playing files.

DenverDon <<<<[[[[

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Redish All-Star Supporter
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Long and Cursive road to the Ivory Pagoda in the province of Loraine
4076 Posts
12/03
Posted - Feb 8 2005 : 2:13AM
You are sure they are quicktime files? You default player isn't set to quicktime?

If it is, change it to WMP or something else. Quicktime does not like anything but Quicktime.

Also, so you have the latest version of QT?

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Evil_Rip
Senior Member

Power overwhelming
1117 Posts
12/99
Posted - Feb 8 2005 : 2:26AM
made by apple... what else would you expect from them...

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Frigo
Senior Member

1290 Posts
7/02
Posted - Feb 8 2005 : 8:16AM
maybe you want to take a look at Quicktime Alternative which is based on old WMP classic (v6.4) and always worked great for me!
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jamesn
Senior Member

Cambridge, MA
750 Posts
1/04
Posted - Feb 8 2005 : 9:49AM
take frigo's advice. quicktime's just a bloated, useless frontend for the mpeg-4 decoder. it tries to install tray icons and phone home, may as well be spyware.
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STEMCELL
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Russia+China are Terror states
1540 Posts
8/04
Posted - Feb 8 2005 : 11:25AM
Videolan VLC media player is able to run Quicktime files >
Indeed is plays any media file (DVD, video, audio, etc.) without need to download any additional bytes (i.e codec, etc.)
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phatbasey
Senior Member

1390 Posts
1/05
Posted - Feb 9 2005 : 1:32AM
Anymore ideas? I have tried these and I am still having problems. I know it is my fault and not the computer but there are so many things out there in Quicktime I can not avoid it any longer. I have been trying for years I have reinstalled, tryed the other systems and they still come out choppy. I have NO problems with any other WM files, it is just so odd and frustrating.

Edited by - phatbasey on 4/12/2005 1:59:29 AM

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Harri Patel
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#SDNY he's all yours. -- Michael Steele
5110 Posts
3/03
Posted - Apr 12 2005 : 2:04PM
Trying for years? Maybe you're expecting too much from an older computer. What kind of CPU and video card, and how much RAM, does it have?
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phatbasey
Senior Member

1390 Posts
1/05
Posted - Apr 13 2005 : 12:02AM
HP Pavilion
Pent 4
1.99 GHz
512 MB of RAM

Its from fall 2002, not sure of video card whatever is stock (INtel Extreme Graphics?), I would never buy an HP again though I will tell you that.

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Redish All-Star Supporter
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Long and Cursive road to the Ivory Pagoda in the province of Loraine
4076 Posts
12/03
Posted - Apr 13 2005 : 12:18AM
That means integrated video card=suck.

Hp, good printers, terrible computers. Stick to components.

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Harri Patel
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#SDNY he's all yours. -- Michael Steele
5110 Posts
3/03
Posted - Apr 14 2005 : 4:13PM
If the integrated graphics uses some of your 512MB RAM (instead of having its own memory, like a separate video card would have), you might try figuring out how much it's using, and, if it's on the low side (32MB or less), increase it. You have to look around in the BIOS settings that you get into by hitting the Delete key when you're first booting up. It won't be in the page that just identifies your drives and has the date and time; look for "Advanced BIOS Options" or something like that. The setting you're looking for will have some cryptic name like "AGP Aperture."

As an alternative to this, you could try buying a cheap video card from newegg.com, like this one for around $40.

Of course, I'm by no means sure that any of this will solve your problem.

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jamesn
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Cambridge, MA
750 Posts
1/04
Posted - Apr 15 2005 : 1:34AM
hmm...you should be able to play it back on that hardware, sounds like there's probably some missing or conflicting directshow filters or splitters.

try 3ivx.com, it's a free decoder that should handle .mov files fine and can be used in any player(although media player classic is the one i'll swear by}.

it might be worth running dxdiag .exe in your win/system32 folder and reinstalling the graphics drivers with the latest and greatest from intel's website.

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