Problem with Perian 1.2

[PoEt]

Hello all,
i am having problems with Perian 1.2. I was watching a movie last
night with subtitles but i didn't finished it so i decided to finish
it today. When i opened my laptop a message for Perian update came up
on screen and i updated to the newer version. Now when i try to open a
movie (.avi) and also need subtitles to watch it (i use only .srt
subtitle files) QuickTime crashes all the time. I have also removed
all of the components for QuickTime that the Perian website suggests
for the version 1.2 to work.
The operating system i am using is MAC OSX version 10.4.11

If anyone knows what's the problem, please let me know!!!

Thank you.

[Graham Booker]

On Dec 21, 2009, at 5:29 AM, PoEt wrote:

> Hello all,
> i am having problems with Perian 1.2. I was watching a movie last
> night with subtitles but i didn't finished it so i decided to finish
> it today. When i opened my laptop a message for Perian update came up
> on screen and i updated to the newer version. Now when i try to open a
> movie (.avi) and also need subtitles to watch it (i use only .srt
> subtitle files) QuickTime crashes all the time. I have also removed
> all of the components for QuickTime that the Perian website suggests
> for the version 1.2 to work.
> The operating system i am using is MAC OSX version 10.4.11

Crash log?!??!?!?

>
> If anyone knows what's the problem, please let me know!!!
>
> Thank you.

- Graham

[Graham Booker]

Forwarding to the list where it belongs instead of sent to an individual....

On Dec 21, 2009, at 10:28 AM, PoEt wrote:

>
>
> On Dec 21, 5:12 pm, Graham Booker <gboo...@cod3r.com> wrote:
>> On Dec 21, 2009, at 5:29 AM, PoEt wrote:
>>

>>> Hello all,
>>> i am having problems with Perian 1.2. I was watching a movie last
>>> night with subtitles but i didn't finished it so i decided to finish
>>> it today. When i opened my laptop a message for Perian update came up
>>> on screen and i updated to the newer version. Now when i try to open a
>>> movie (.avi) and also need subtitles to watch it (i use only .srt
>>> subtitle files) QuickTime crashes all the time. I have also removed
>>> all of the components for QuickTime that the Perian website suggests
>>> for the version 1.2 to work.
>>> The operating system i am using is MAC OSX version 10.4.11
>>

>> Crash log?!??!?!?

>>
>>
>>
>>> If anyone knows what's the problem, please let me know!!!
>>
>>> Thank you.
>>

>> - Graham
>>
>> smime.p7s
>> 6KViewDownload
>
>
> In Crash log it shows me things that i cannot understand..i hope you
> can because i am not a pro at these kind of things.. like the
> followings:

Yes, we understand this and it is exactly what we needed.

Alexander, thoughts on this? You know the color space code better than I.

>
> Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
> Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000000
>
> Thread 0 Crashed:
> 0 org.perian.Perian 0x04c901b0 GetSRGBColorSpace + 96
> 1 org.perian.Perian 0x04ca28e0 -[SubATSUIRenderer
> initWithVideoWidth:videoHeight:] + 96
> 2 org.perian.Perian 0x04ca32e8 SubInitNonSSA + 152
> 3 org.perian.Perian 0x04ca5cec SubPrerollFromHeader +
> 60
> 4 org.perian.Perian 0x04c8eba8
> _ZL22LoadSingleTextSubtitlePK7__CFURLPK10__CFStringPP9MovieTypePPP9TrackTypeii
> + 1272
> 5 org.perian.Perian 0x04c8f9a4
> LoadExternalSubtitlesFromFileDataRef + 2788
> 6 org.perian.Perian 0x04c83660
> FFAvi_MovieImportDataRef + 1152
> 7 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x90bdf0fc
> CallComponentFunctionCommon + 1456
> 8 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x90bdeae8 CallComponent + 260
> 9 com.apple.QuickTime 0x9483bf70 MovieImportDataRef + 80
> 10 com.apple.QuickTime 0x94958014
> newMovieFromFileFromComponent + 884
> 11 com.apple.QuickTime 0x948ff09c
> getNewMovieFromFileUsingImporters + 1484
> 12 com.apple.QuickTime 0x948fe660 NewMovieFromFilePriv +
> 784
> 13 com.apple.QuickTime 0x94824628
> NewMovieFromDataRefPriv_priv + 1688
> 14 com.apple.QuickTime 0x948234e8
> NewMovieFromProperties_priv + 4632
> 15 com.apple.QTKit 0x95975e08 -[QTMovie
> initWithAttributes:error:] + 3836
> 16 com.apple.QTKit 0x95974ef0 +[QTMovie
> movieWithAttributes:error:] + 60
> 17 com.apple.quicktimeplayer 0x000057e8 -[QTPMovieDocument
> readFromFile:ofType:error:] + 276
> 18 com.apple.quicktimeplayer 0x00005648 -[QTPMovieDocument
> initWithContentsOfFile:ofType:isHotPicks:error:] + 116
> 19 com.apple.AppKit 0x93ad91fc -[NSDocumentController
> makeDocumentWithContentsOfURL:ofType:error:] + 332
> 20 com.apple.AppKit 0x93ad903c -[NSDocumentController
> openDocumentWithContentsOfURL:display:error:] + 340
> 21 com.apple.quicktimeplayer 0x000479c4 -
> [QTPApplicationDelegate openFiles:openInNewPlayer:] + 412
> 22 com.apple.AppKit 0x938428b4 -[NSApplication
> sendAction:to:from:] + 108
> 23 com.apple.AppKit 0x9389d094 -[NSMenu
> performActionForItemAtIndex:] + 392
> 24 com.apple.AppKit 0x9389ce18 -[NSCarbonMenuImpl
> performActionWithHighlightingForItemAtIndex:] + 104
> 25 com.apple.AppKit 0x937a4150
> _NSHandleCarbonMenuEvent + 372
> 26 com.apple.AppKit 0x937a1ab4 _DPSNextEvent + 1280
> 27 com.apple.AppKit 0x937a13f8 -[NSApplication
> nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 116
> 28 com.apple.quicktimeplayer 0x00004e38 -[QTPApplication
> nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 56
> 29 com.apple.AppKit 0x9379d93c -[NSApplication run] +
> 472
> 30 com.apple.AppKit 0x9388e458 NSApplicationMain + 452
> 31 com.apple.quicktimeplayer 0x000564fc _start + 760
> 32 com.apple.quicktimeplayer 0x00056200 start + 48
>
>
> Thank you,
> Minas

- Graham

[Ian Ridpath]

Not sure if this is related, but since upgrading to Perian 1.2 on my
G5 PPC running 10.4.11 I am unable to playback .flv videos in Keynote
4. The presentations play back fine on my Intel MacBook running
10.6.2, though.

Ian

[Alexander Strange]

If it works in QT Player, that's really as good as we can get it.
Anything else must be a bug in the program itself (excepting the
workarounds for subtitles).
I remember an old Keynote bug like this that was fixed by changing the
preference for "Allow Exposé to use screen"; you could try that.

[Alexander Strange]

…I noticed this before release, but thought I'd managed to fix it.
Must have tested it wrong.

I can't check this at the moment, but does this work? Replace ~/
Library/Components/Perian.component with it.
http://astrange.ithinksw.net/perian/Perian-svn.component.zip

It has this change, since it seems like weak symbols behave strangely
with data:
Index: CommonUtils.c
===================================================================
--- CommonUtils.c (revision 1239)
+++ CommonUtils.c (working copy)
@@ -575,7 +575,7 @@
if (!loaded) {
loaded = TRUE;

- if (&kCGColorSpaceSRGB) {
+ if (&kCGColorSpaceSRGB && kCGColorSpaceSRGB) {
sRGBColorSpace = CGColorSpaceCreateWithName(kCGColorSpaceSRGB); //
does not exist on 10.4
} else {
sRGBColorSpace = CreateColorSpaceFromSystemICCProfileName(CFSTR
("sRGB Profile.icc"));

I'll check it myself soon and do something else (that will definitely
fix it) if it doesn't.

>  smime.p7s
> 6KViewDownload

[Ian Ridpath]

Actually, the problem seems to have cleared itself. I think a simple
restart was what was needed.

Apologies for troubling you, and keep up the good work.

Ian

[James]

Sweet. I've just spent a few hours scouring the web for this solution
and lo and behold, this freakin worked. You are the man. Did you alter
this component? Whatever you did you rock man.

On Dec 23 2009, 11:18 pm, Alexander Strange <astra...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Library/Components/Perian.component with it.http://astrange.ithinksw.net/perian/Perian-svn.component.zip

[mattvs2004]

I too have had a problem with Perian 1.2. 1.1 works fine when playing
back xvid encoded videos, but 1.2 won't let me playback the video. I
had to uninstall 1.2 and reinstall 1.1 in order to get the playback
right again. Hopefully this bug will be addressed in 1.2.x or 1.3.

[Alexander Strange]

Post a sample file.

[Alexander Strange]

It goes in ~/Library/QuickTime/ (or just search for Perian.component
and replace that).