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Troubleshooting QuickTime 6.4: MPEG-2 component expires leaving users without functionality
MacFixIt readers are reporting, and we have confirmed in-house, that an MPEG-2 component in QuickTime 6.4 expired on December 14th, leaving users without the ability to playback MPEG-2 files.
So far, the only identified workaround is to set the date back to December 14th, a procedure that compromises scheduling tools and other applications. Also, based on all the information we have received, it makes no difference which Mac or which version of Mac OS X is being used. The problem also has nothing to do with when the MPEG-2 component was purchased.
There are two ways to obtain the MPEG-2 playback component of QuickTime - purchase it standalone and download the package from Apple's Web site or receive it alongside Final Cut Pro 4 or DVD Studio Pro 2.
Apple has a Knowledge Base document explaining how to download an updated version of the MPEG-2 component with either ownership scenario, but there is no indication that the currently available version fixes the expiration bug.
UPDATE Several readers have noted that QuickTime 6.3, released in June, will still play MPEG-2 files with the date set accurately.
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and the time reset workaround does not work here ....
fine -a nice 2 hours transfer to my Windows PC
modified on 10/20/03 -- four days from now!
Uh, 10/20/03 is four days from now? Guess who's not in a Christmas
rush.
Well of course he's in no hurry, look at the car he drives.
whateer you had for breakfast, Ill take some!!
today.
please fix fast.
i guess i just relax for some days now.
as a download for $19.95. That's unfair, maybe, but there's no point in
holding up a feature production for 20 bucks and a three-minute
installation.
Notice above, installing the component again has no effect. This whole
this is about that $19.95 component.
Isn't the download the old file that won't work? It's always been a $20 download.
I bought this long ago; hadn't updated Quicktime so haven't noticed a problem.
What I read sounds like that download currently available is still the outdated version.
Something is rotten in the state of Cupertino.
The MPEG-2 component was updated for QT 6.4. The component for
6.3 works fine, it's the 6.4 one that doesn't.
Purchases to download a new version of this component that is fixed. I
don't think there has been any official word on this, but I just did it and it
works again!
- by Lief December 17, 2003 10:15 AM PST
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(14 Comments)I tried this as well and it fixed it.
I logged into my account and went to the Software Downloads section.
There was a green button by MPEG component.
I downloaded, installed, restarted and whommp, there it was.