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Quartz Composer Movie Screen Saver broken in Snow Leopard

by chockyII Sep 4, 2009 3:16AM PDT

As anyone found a way to create a video playing screen saver in Quartz Composer in Snow Leopard. These screen savers work fine in Leopard but crash System Preferences when you attempt to load them in Snow Leopard. They seem to work just fine within Quartz Composer. Any insight will be appreciated. Thanks.

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Same problem

by Mors_Venit Sep 21, 2009 2:17AM PDT

I'm having the same problem. You can open the screensavers using the space bar and it plays just fine. I'm wondering if it has to do with the System preferences app not having enough memory to generate a preview.

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Quartz Composer Movie Screen Saver broken in Snow Leopard

by chockyII Nov 17, 2009 5:51AM PST

Well, we're at 10.6.2 and it's still broken. I should mention that Quick Look also plays them properly.

Anyone else care to weigh in?

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Quartz screensaver creation fixed!

by tm6511 Mar 9, 2011 6:54AM PST

For anyone still following this problem, it appears to be fixed with the new version of WebKit that was installed as part of the Safari 5.0.4 update. Making a video screensaver that works with Snow Leopard is now as straightforward as all the how-to articles described.

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(NT) Thanks for sharing

by mrmacfixit Forum moderator Mar 9, 2011 8:10AM PST

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