Most Peculiar, Mama

About a week ago I was using QTPro as is my wont on occasion, and it crashed and gave an error message with things like "corruption" and "buffer overrun." I hit the side of my head with my hand and exclaimed, "Oh no! I've deaded QTProooooo ========:O."*]

After that it would crash ever time I tried to change the settings, although everything else worked fine. I could export as long as I didn't try to change the settings.

I uninstalled, reinstalled.
Expected it to be different. It was the same.

Today I spent .345677 minutes** on the Apple QT Windows forum where, it appears, not everyone is happy with Apple. Sample threads: "How do I request a refund since Quicktime Pro does not work," and "Wow 16 days with ZERO replies," and "Can't remove old Quicktime." I found a thread that outlined my same problem. He had reinstalled QT then reinstalled XP =====:O - still no satisfaction. That's much further than I would go.

I saw a thread about incompatability with Nvidia -
"There seems to be a distinct incompatibility between QT7 and either the NVidia GeForce 8 chipset or the latest Nvidia drivers. QT becomes quite unstable in certain circumstances, most notably crashing when attempting to change settings for movie export from QT Player."

HE reinstalled, installed older Forceware drivers, etc., etc., etc., etc. No joy.

Someone else said, "Three possible work-arounds:
1) Switch QuickTime to GDI Safe Mode. One of our techs reported that this solution wasn't 100% successful for him.
2) Drop system-wide hardware acceleration (Display Properties -> Settings tab -> Advanced -> Troubleshoot) to the setting labeled "Disable all cursor and advanced drawing accelerations. Use this setting to correct drawing problems." Only did limited testing on this one.
3) Run with the generic "VGA-Compatible" display card driver built-in to Windows. Not recommended - user experience will be very poor."

I think I'll just ignore QTPro for a while (use current settings) and wait for them to fix the compatability issue as nothing anyone has done has helped. At least reading their efforts saved me from thinking it was me.

* Fib A
**Fib B - it was at least 2 minutes.

Strange Days Indeed