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Authored by: richard_k_smith on Feb 05, '06 10:26:09AM

Upgrading to 2.0.1 *does* solve the "crash on close" problem that flip4mac introduced with Quicktime 7.

However, there is a more insidious problem. It seems to be invoked for file types/media types where it is not necessary. The type that I am concerned about are the ".avi" files that my digital camera creates (a Canon S2IS, and a Canon A85).

What happens is that flip4Mac first of all caused the "crash on close" bug and then, more annoyingly, blocked export of these formats - that formerly worked just fine (Flip4Mac was never required before). Even more annoying, it just gives a "Fail" error message with nothing indicating that Flip4Mac was the culprit. I spent quite a bit of time yesterday figuring this out.

Presumably the higher priced "includes export" version of Flip4Mac would allow me to export things that I used to be able to export just fine, but for now the only solution seems to be to uninstall Flip4Mac. I have done that and an export from AVI to M4V is running right now.

I think flip4mac needs to a) generate a more sensible error message if you aren't allowed to do something in its licence, and b) not intervene in functions that quicktime can do all on it's own - like export from .avi to .mov.

Hope this helps someone else who experiences these errors and can't figure out what is going on.

...r



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