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Problems watching the WWDC 2005 keynote: Possible solutions

Problems watching the WWDC 2005 keynote: Possible solutions

CNET staff
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Yesterday we reported problems watching the video stream of Steve Jobs' 2005 WWDC keynote speech, where it was announced that Macs would begin shipping with Intel processors in 2006 and that the next major release of Mac OS X will be dubbed "Leopard."

Users note that QuickTime 7.0.1 crashes at the same point each time in the stream.

We've now identified a few potential solutions:

Resetting preferences In some cases, it appears that a problematic preference setting can cause the repeated crashes.

Reverting all user preferences to default will usually solve the problem, as noted by MacFixIt reader Frank Piccolo:

"I too was having problems with QT crashing at the 12 second mark. What fixed it was the following: after it crashes a dialogue pops up with Close/Try Again/Report (to Apple). If you click on Try Again, the Player prefs will be reset (a warning will appear) to default and viewing the stream will be possible. In my case at least, some setting I chose caused the player to crash."

Meanwhile, MacFixIt reader Cappy reports that turning off the "Enable Instant-On" in the Streaming Tab of the QuickTime preferences resolves the issue.

Works on PCs In a moment of irony, several readers noted that the keynote stream in which it was announced that Macs would soon use Intel processors worked without issue on Intel-based PCs.

MacFixIt reader Wayne writes: "I wanted to add my confirmation on this problem. I can watch the keynote at work (using a Windows 2000 box and QT 6.5.2), but can?t watch it at home on my 2 Ghz Dual (running Tiger 10.4.1 and QT 7.) Maybe it only plays on Intel processors..."

Changing default transport protocol MacFixIt reader Frank Bisono reports that changing the default transport protocol setting in QuickTime's Advanced preferences resolved the issue in his case:

Frank writes:

"I experienced a lot of problems trying to watch the WWDC Keynote stream and it wasn't until I tried the following that I got it to work.  Go into Quicktime Preferences and click the Advanced tab.  Under Transport Setup, click CUSTOM.  Change the default transport protocol to HTTP on port 80.  The default was UDP on Port 554.  This did the trick for me and the stream came down with no problems."

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