[X4U] QuickTime 7.0.3 not playing complete clip

[Eugene]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 10:14:43AM CST, kp <phlbrck at gmail.com> wrote:
: 
: Over the past several weeks I have received three QT
: presentations ranging in size from 80MB to 120MB in mpg
: format. The smaller one played to completion, however with the
: other two only about 1/3rd is recognized and the progress
: indicator erroneously shows it has gone to the end.
: 
: They all play normally with VLC, but the question remains what
: QT control do I have set improperly?

It's not you.  Or QuickTime.  The problem is that the larger
MPEG file is not encoded correctly.  QuickTime sticks with the
spec and so does not play the file to "completion".  VLC Player
tolerates these kinds of problems and will play the corrupted
MPEG file in its entirety.


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Eugene
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