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Why does WMV playback via Quicktime under Snow Leopard STREAM?

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9/16/09 at 10:13am
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One of the first things I noticed when I upgraded to
Snow Leopard was that the playback of any WMV
video file (and perhaps the same for other formats as well)
does not play back in a manner that you can move
quickly ahead to your favorite scene.

What happens is, the file streams.  So upon playback,
there is a bar that slowly loads the entire video file.  The
loading process is super slow as if you were watching
a YouTube file on a slow internet connection.

Now I have FLIP4MAC Snow Leopard Beta installed
and it doesn't make a difference.

I also have VLC installed, and with that, the video
plays back fine, but I hate VLC.  VLC does not handle
fast forwarding or any kind of video jumping around
within the file without breakup.  Also, VLC picture
quality for me does not look as natural as Quicktime.

Anyone experiencing the same problems with Quicktime
playback?

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9/16/09 at 1:01pm
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It comes down to the fundamental differences in the way QT7 vs QTX deal with these files.  Perhaps you might want to investigate using QT7 for these file types.

http://theappleblog.com/2009/06/09/snow-leopard-in-depth-quicktime-x/
http://www.macworld.com/article/142440/2009/08/quicktimex.html
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2141480&tstart=-1
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=775457
http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/quicktime-x-the-ultimate-media-player-and-a-tech-showcase-2009092/

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9/16/09 at 2:21pm
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Sam,

Actually one of the links you provided explains the
problem.

There is an advanced setting in Quicktime that you
need to enable to completely load the file instead
of buffering it.

Very odd, to say the least, but at least I found an
answer to the problem.
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9/17/09 at 7:46am
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Glad you got your answer sir!  I'm not entirely sold on QtX, will have to see how that evolves.  I like the fading controls but they are still a bit finicky...

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9/18/09 at 3:55am
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I had this problem but now I have another problem. While I could watch videos in streamong with QT7 and QTX until Tuesday, now VLC will systematically launch for videos in streaming. I keep changing the default setting in Safari and Firefox to use QT for wmv files, it won't work. Any idea, tip, trick, help? Thank you so much!!!
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