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Re: Weird iTunes error

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In article <52f2f055$0$52801$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>, Patty Winter
<patty1@sonic.net> wrote:

> I was just trying to view the video podcast of yesterday's
> panel discussion with "Sherlock" creators and cast members
> at the Apple Store Regent Street. When I clicked on the play
> button for the podcast, I got the error message:
> 
> "This movie requires QuickTime, which is not supported by 
> this version of iTunes."
> 
> This is on my work computer, which is running OS 10.8 and
> iTunes 11. Notice that the error message didn't say that the
> computer was missing a QT plug-in, but that this version of 
> iTunes simply doesn't support it. How could the latest version 
> of iTunes not support QuickTime??? Especially if QT is needed
> to view a podcast recorded and posted BY APPLE ON ITUNES???!!

that's because it's using quicktime x, which does less than the
previous quicktime 7 did.

i don't know what codec the podcast is using, but you either need to
find a quicktime x version of the codec or upgrade to quicktime 7.

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Weird iTunes error patty1@sonic.net (Patty Winter) - 2014-02-06 02:15 +0000
  Re: Weird iTunes error nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-05 21:40 -0500
    Re: Weird iTunes error Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-02-06 04:33 +0000
      Re: Weird iTunes error nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-05 23:44 -0500
        Re: Weird iTunes error Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-02-06 06:16 +0000
          Re: Weird iTunes error nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-06 01:25 -0500
      Re: Weird iTunes error Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-06 13:48 +0000
        Re: Weird iTunes error Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-02-06 17:17 +0000
          Re: Weird iTunes error Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-06 18:01 +0000
            Re: Weird iTunes error Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-02-06 20:06 +0000
              Re: Weird iTunes error Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-06 20:42 +0000
                Re: Weird iTunes error Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-02-07 02:13 +0000
                Re: Weird iTunes error Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-07 04:35 +0000
  Re: Weird iTunes error Chris Schram <chrispam1@me.com> - 2014-02-05 19:27 -0800
  Re: Weird iTunes error Matthew Lybanon <lybanon@earthlink.net> - 2014-02-06 10:35 -0600

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