Old version of quicktime for mac mac os x#

Yes, it does mean that if you install the Mac OS X 10.4.9 update, you may get hit by the bug.' Just back away from your computer box as if it were a swarm of bees.

Old version of quicktime for mac update#

In order to prevent yourself from being smacked in the face by this bug, follow this simple rule: When 'Optimize System Performance' appears during the update process do not touch your computer and definitely do not launch any applications. Yes, this nasty prebinding bug has been reported to Apple and yes, it is 100% reproducible if you want to reproduce it.Įvery single time you install an update to Mac OS X whether it be an iTunes update, a QuickTime update, an update for daylight saving time, a security update, an Airport update, or an actual Mac OS X update, you can be hit by this bug. By real I mean not imagined problems or ones that have been there for a very long time but the user is just now noticing it and artificially connecting the cause to the recent update (it's called Pareidolia).

Old version of quicktime for mac software#

Most of the real 'random' failures reported on various Mac OS X 'troubleshooting' sites after a user has installed an Apple software update are actually manifestations of this bug. I've been tracking this particular bug for about 18 months now. If you launch an application that links to libraries that are not yet prebound, there is a chance one of those files will be zero'd out as dyld automatically redoes the prebinding on that file. This phase is actually just running update_prebinding. It's triggered during the 'Optimizing System Performance' phase of installing an update. This bug is usually triggered when updating Mac OS X and every update to Mac OS X has the potential to render your system unbootable depending on if the 'right' file is deleted or not. Basically, all data in the file is deleted and it is replaced with nothing. If multiple processes are updating prebinding at the same time, then it is possible for a system file to be completely zero'd out. Updating prebinding has a very, very nasty bug in it (look at _dyld_update_prebinding). When you see the 'Optimizing System Performance' phase of a software update, Mac OS X is really updating prebinding. Shock and Awe: How Installing Apple's Updates can Render Your Mac Unbootable and How You Can Prevent it 'The folks at Unsanity may finally have unravelled the mystery of randomly-disastrous Apple software updates: Stick with something earlier (and more stable) or wait until they create a new version that works. Avoid it like the plague if you have less than a 1GHz processor.

What more can I say: there's a reason why this site has links to previous versions and reinstallers. Installing this program screwed up every other program I have that depends on QuickTime components (BTV Pro, Vidi, Formac TVR). It records H.264 format at a whopping 1.67 fps - that's less than 18 percent of normal framerate - and it even messes up device native recording (which is essentially supposed to be just DV passthrough).

Old version of quicktime for mac pro#

QuickTime Pro Version 7.2 has a stated minimum system requirement of a G3 400 MHz system with 128MB of RAM, but it can't even play videos on my G4 800 with 1GB of RAM, let alone record them. Apparently it is incompatible with Rosetta, and the webplugin messes up all QuickTime content in Safari, but my problems have been with the application itself.

Massive numbers of playback issues have been reported about this version on forums all over the world. I would love to recommend this version of QuickTime. In short, your assertion that PPC Macs outnumber Intel-based Macs is simply laughable. In fact, Apple has sold as many Intel-based Macs in four years as the total number of PPC Macs sold from 1996 to the end of the PPC era in mid-2006, a period of over 10 years. So Apple has been selling all-Intel macs and nothing but intel-based Macs since mid-2006.įrom mid-2006 to mid-2010, Apple has sold at least 36M Intel based Macs, more than double the number of PPC Macs sold from 2001 to mid-2006. (the totals above are sourced, btw, from Apple's own quarterly reports as compiled by Gartner.)

I'm being *incredibly* generous on the numbers on your side of this equation, btw. Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM is still running.

Many millions more, in fact.įrom 2001 to mid-2006, Apple sold about 18 million PPC Macs total (none of the figures I'm using include iPods or iPhones of any type - just Macintosh computers). In point of fact, there are more Intel Macs in service now than PPC machines by a wide margin.