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A fix for an iTunes crash when playing videos Apps
A recent fix concerning video podcasts reminded me that I was recently able to solve a problem with iTunes.

Although I've never purchased video content from Apple, I was intrigued by the animations on Channel Frederator, and psyched I could download them like a podcast. Well, the first vodcast I downloaded took quite a while, then crashed iTunes (unexpected quit error). I repeated the download several times with the same result. I even downloaded the vodcast directly from Frederator and double-clicked, but still had the same result. Subsequent episodes also crashed iTunes. I could play these files with VLC or other video players, just not iTunes.

I posted my problem on the Apple discussion forums, and found others had similar problems. One person figured out the cause for his crashes -- and fortunately it resolved my own as well.

The problem was with a shareware plug-in for iTunes called OSS 3D. It's a neat plugin (shareware) that allows you to use a wide variety of audio settings and an advanced equalizer. Unfortunately, the version I had (don't know if it has been updated) crashes iTunes if you try to open video content. So, if you have this plug-in, remove it from the iTunes plug-in folder if you have such problems.

I also want to point out that such crashes might be discovered by viewing the system log files. Lesson learned.
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VLC fixes quicktime glitches!
Authored by: zahadum on Dec 28, '05 01:08:07PM

quicktime (and therefore itunes) has always been terrible about playing muxed files (which predominate on windoze for some reason).

crash freeze & hang has been the terror awaiting almost every file not created using a quicktime codec.

but the most recent version of VLC seems to have solved everything - now i can play back almost any content, even in the apple media player (ie quicktime player) itself.

i dont know exactly why this other other audio engine (oss 3d) screws up the quicktime system underneath itunes, but it would be interesting to get some feedback from the vlc people about it - since they are the only ones who seem to be able to create a media engine that works on the mac.

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A fix for an iTunes crash when playing videos
Authored by: RubberDuck on Dec 28, '05 09:26:25PM

I had an issue playing mp4 video (video podcasts) in iTunes.
iTunes wouldn't crash, but the video would get almost half way thru and then stall.

I had a number of mp4 Quicktime codecs installed, and while Quicktime played mp4 content fine using whatever codec it deemed best, iTunes seemed to prefer the 3ivx codec which was causing the problem. Removal of the 3ivx component from /Library/QuickTime fixed my problem.

And while on the subject of codecs and muxed content, here are a couple of codecs I find useful...

Recently released DivX 6 for Mac, gives much smoother playback of DivX avi files.
AC3 codec, for playing seemingly unplayable DivX AVI files with AC3 audio.
And Flip4Mac for playing wmv files in QuickTime.

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A fix for an iTunes crash when playing videos
Authored by: barr104 on Dec 30, '05 07:04:07AM

Good, I'm glad this has been figured out! I'm at work now and can't test this out on my powerbook, but it will be the first thing I do when i get home.

iTunes has been relentlessly crashing on me ever since I got my new 60GB iPod video for Christmas it seems. nearly every time i play, select, or transfer a video in iTunes it crashed. Also, nearly every time I tried and sync up my iPod it crashed. I hope this is a fix for all of theses issues and it sounds like it will be. Glad you posted here, thanks!



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