On both my Mac mini and my iMac the sound will not play for any videos opened up in the safari browser. This has started up recently, anyone run into something like this yet?
What kind of video? Flash? Windows Media Video? QuickTime?
For Flash, download and re-install the latest version.
For QuickTime, download and re-install the latest version.
For WMV, download Flip4Mac and install.
Its just Quicktime and WMV that wont have audio. I tried reinstalling but it didn’t help. With WMV files I get the message “this video was compressed with a codec that the player doesn’t recongnize.” and thats weird because old videos I sed to play fine now get this message and I get no audio.
I have seen some issues similar to this with WMV and the Flip4Mac program. I would uninstall that, reboot, and then try again. Also, download the newest version of it, and see if that helps.
No sound from some applications, but system alert sounds play (Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4)
Some audio applications may change your computer’s audio settings to a sample rate that is too high for other applications to use. In this situation, system alert sounds still work, and does iTunes, but other applications may have no sound (audio output). This document applies to Mac OS X 10.3 or later and applications that use QuickTime 6 for audio, such as Safari and Quicktime Player.
This can happen on Macs that support high sample rates (higher than 48000 Hz):
iMac G5/Intel
Mac mini
Power Mac G5 models that support sample rates higher than 48000 Hz
PowerBook G4 support sample rates higher than 48000 Hz
For example, if you play an Internet movie in Safari, it will make no sound; if you open a QuickTime movie on your computer, QuickTime Player reports the following error (and the movie will have no audio):
“You may experience problems playing a sound track in (Movie Name).mov because a software component needed by the movie could not be opened.”
Solution
1. Open Audio MIDI Setup (/Applications/Utilities/), then check the Audio Output setting.
2. Change the Audio Output setting to 44100.0 Hz.
3. Quit Audio MIDI Setup.
Tried reinstalling both the latest version of Quicktime (7.1.3) and an older version (let me just say very bad things happened).
Also checked the Audio Output setting and it is at 44100.0 Hz..
No sound with Quicktime movies in Safari.
No sound in iTunes 7 with my own clips, podcast clips etc.
iTunes crashes whenever I try to play a video I purchased.
Can play any video from Quicktime and Front Row - works fine.
Carol and I have no problems with iTunes 7 or the new QT on OS X. No problems with Safari, either.
We’ve been working to put up a family web site and I’m absolutely flabbergasted at the problems with browser rendering.
No kidding, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer absolutely, positively sucks. What looks good in Safari and Firefox and Camino, looks crummy in Internet Explorer.
We worked to get a few web pages to validate with HTML and CSS standards, only to see the results look fully out of wack on our Windows PC. The problem with doing a web page on a Mac, then making it available to family and friends, is most of them use Windows.
Even with the Mac360 site, check out the home page in Safari, then Firefox, then Internet Explorer. What a mess!!
Ok I have a new problem, for some reason it takes forever for a webpage to load on Safari and I cant send out files to anyone on my iChat; even though I can recieve. I am thinking it has something to do with my router and maybe I need to open up some ports so my safari runs faster? It takes 25 seconds to load up the Mac360 home page and I am on cable internet :(
Sounds like a problem you got there. It could also be your cable provider or an upstream routing issue. Check the bottom of the Mac360 home page and the Forums page.
You’ll see something like this on each-- Page executed in 0.7292 seconds for the home page, and Script Executed in 1.9266 seconds for Forums. That just tells you how long it took for the server to construct the page. After that, it’s all in the internet and a gazillion routers here and there.
Sounds to me like the problem might be closer at hand, since you’re having trouble sending files via iChat. Safari is receiving and sending on port 80. I don’t remember the iChat ports but the info should be easy to find.
Another way to test is to use Safari to go to the Apple site and download a file from their servers, which are scattered all over the country. See how fast the download is.
No kidding, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer absolutely, positively sucks. What looks good in Safari and Firefox and Camino, looks crummy in Internet Explorer.
We worked to get a few web pages to validate with HTML and CSS standards, only to see the results look fully out of wack on our Windows PC. The problem with doing a web page on a Mac, then making it available to family and friends, is most of them use Windows.
Even with the Mac360 site, check out the home page in Safari, then Firefox, then Internet Explorer. What a mess!!
If you want a consistent looking web page you have two options: Ignore CSS pretty completely and use tabs for layout, or tip toe around the CSS inconsistencies with conservative and extremely explicit CSS. With either method I’ve found I can get maybe 98% consistency consistently, but this method ends up meaning that layout dictates which method you use. I also tend to avoid the hacks for the most part, which saved me some grief as apparently IE 7 has broken a lot of the popular CSS hacks without fully fixing their behavior.
IE, as a whole, is built on a fundamentally flawed architecture which actually uses two distinct layout modes depending on the type of object, and its attributes, making predictability very difficult (especially since it’s largely undocumented). But of course we must deal with it for now; the panacea would be when enough popular websites are coded in strict CSS/HTML, and break under IE’s behavior, forcing users to migrate away from IE.
I took out my router and just plugged my mac straight into the cable modem and all my webpages fly and I can once again send files to people… so its definatly my routers firewall. Netgear WGR614 v6 is the one I’m using… its soooo not mac friendly :(
hahahaha! Yeah, that’s it.
thanx for the link.