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Playing Media freezes PC

Mar 20, 2004 2:46AM PST

I tried playing a .mov file within my IE 6.0 browser and it completely freezes my computer shortly after it starts. This will also sometimes happen when I play a video clip with Windows Media Player, altho not as often.

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Re:Playing Media freezes PC
Mar 20, 2004 2:59AM PST

Use System Restore to when it worked properly.

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Re:Playing Media freezes PC
Mar 20, 2004 3:31AM PST

.mov files are QuickTime files, and will not play with Windows Media Player. You need either Apple's crappy player or something like MediaPlayer Classic with QuickTime Alternative.

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Re:Re:Playing Media freezes PC
Mar 20, 2004 6:51AM PST

"Q234019" under Method 1 mentions it does.