[P1] quicktime problem

[Mark O'Brien]

On 12/10/02 12:02 PM, "Brian Fish" <b.fish at durandac.org> wrote:

> I'm stumped.  I can't get Quicktime videos to play on my ibook, but they
> play fine on my PC.  I'm trying to watch old macworld keynotes and expos to
> fill the void until January.  On my ibook, Quicktime opens and says
> "requested data" for about 30 seconds and then says "timed out" and does
> nothing.  On my PC, the same file opens right away and plays with no
> problems.  I've updated my Quicktime to 6.0.2 and just recently upgraded to
> Quicktime Pro, but still the same results.  I originally thought that it was
> a problem with the links on apple's site, but as I said, they work fine on
> my PC.

I had this problem on my iBook at home. When I switched the QuickTime
Connection (Transport?) settings from UDP to HTTP, it worked immediately.
For some reason my wireless router doesn't seem to be able to handle the UDP
stream correctly.
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Mark O'Brien
AIM: rmarkob