Is there anyone else here with pre-G3 PowerMacs upgraded with third party cards, who can run QuickTime 6 without crashing?
Both machines crash when trying to view the Apple promo video "Power Mac G5 Video" at <http://www.apple.com/powermac/>.
That promo crashes me too. Kudos Apple!
I upgraded QuickTime 5.0.2 to 6.0.3 on my PowerMac 7300 (running OS 9.2.2). Since I live too far away to reach anyone at Apple for a good neck throttling, I'm going to bite the bullet, figure out how to deinstall QT, and reinstall 5.
QuickTime 6 is VERY slow. It plays mpeg-1 about 80% of the frame rate of QT 5. As soon as you enlarge a VCD window, it reduces the frame rate even more AND adds black horizontal lines. Mpeg-1 videos that looked great at full screen (17") just aren't viewable. And it can't even come close to playing any of my DivX stuff that worked fine under QT 5 (tried several diff codecs).
QuickTime 6 is also very crashy. Videos that played just fine with 5 often lock up now.
To compare, thinking maybe it was an issue with my OS9 hack, I tried playing the same vids using QT 6 on a PowerBook G3 -- and had the same problems.
Giving QuickTime Player more memory doesn't help.
Playing the vids via a 3rd party player, such as Play It Cool doesn't help much either - the problem seems to be deep within QuickTime.
- Dan.
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