Quicktime Troubles [Solved]

starmanbrand

My summer class makes me watch embedded quicktime videos instead of providing transcripts or another format. The problem is that it barely works. The visual is choppy and laggy, the audio will cut out for minutes at a time, pausing the video will sometimes make it so i have to restart it. These same problems are present when I download the videos.

The videos do this on my netbook (xp), old computer (vista), and new computer (7). I've got the latest version of quicktime and when I go to their site I can see the logos and what not that show it is installed correctly and can stream. It also does this in Opera, Firefox, and IE. Other embedded quicktime videos have problems where they lag for a second, but then continue and do not suffer from audio/visual de-syncing or lag.

School IT is slow so hopefully someone here can toss some ideas my way.

Is it possible my router could be messing with my ability to watch quicktime stuff?

RBach

You mentioned downloading the videos. Try getting a media player like VLC to see if it handles the files any better.

starmanbrand

When I try to open them with VLC it does nothing, even though they are a supported format (.mov). Realplayer plays them with the same problems as quicktime. Divx plays them with the same errors.

So when I download the videos, they are retaining the same errors as the stream.

starmanbrand

Fixed it. After diggin' through some terrible forums I found a tip to change some of the transport settings. went from automatic to HTTP port: 80 and bam. Fixed it right up.

Thanks for the help, RBach.