On a friend's macbook she is finding that whenever importing movies from a canon digital ixus (.avi) files, iphoto crashes. Quicktime cannot play these files either.
They work fine in quicktime and import fine into iphoto on my powerbook.
Has anyone else had this problem?
Is there a solution?
Thanks
Ben

ps. The one thing i've noticed is that on my powerbook, in /Library/Quicktime there is a CanonMPJEGAVI component. I don't remember this being on the macbook. Is it to do with this? Also, the macbook has 3ivx,divx,xvid installed but other quicktime movies work fine, so I'm assuming the problem isn;t related to them.

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On a friend's macbook she is finding that whenever importing movies from a canon digital ixus (.avi) files, iphoto crashes. Quicktime cannot play these files either.

I've got the same bug - import from Digital Ixus 430, and if there's a movie file that I've captured, iPhoto crashes on the import. Quicktime also cannot play them.

I'm on an iBook, so it's not an Intel-specific thing.

ps. The one thing i've noticed is that on my powerbook, in /Library/Quicktime there is a CanonMPJEGAVI component. I don't remember this being on the macbook. Is it to do with this?

Good find! I think that's the problem...as I don't have that files on my computer either. The AVI files are encoded in Motion JPEG, so I wouldn't be surprised at all if that's the problem.

I'll hunt around and see if I can find that component and see whether it fixes the issue.

Yep I had the same problem and what I did was removed every individual codec from /Library/Quicktime onto the desktop 1 by 1. I found out that Flip4Mac screwing things up in iPhoto and iMovie. I then put the codecs back without Flip4mac.

The latest version of Flip4mac has had the bug fix and can play videos in iPhoto :-)

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ps. The one thing i've noticed is that on my powerbook, in /Library/Quicktime there is a CanonMPJEGAVI component.
This codec may be PPC only and crashing iPhoto or Quicktime running as Intel.

The canon component is only on my powerbook, haven't tried it on the macbook so that wasn't causing the problem.
I'll try the flip4mac stuff.
Thanks
Ben

I ran into the same problem (Quicktime Pro 7.13 crashing on a MacBook Pro when trying to play the movies from a Canon digital camera), and found that trashing the component "AviImporter-r7 (Intel).component" for some odd reason fixes it. Hope this helps ya'll.

Oh super much thank you I did this and all of the sudden all my problems disappeared and I can now play my videos in quicktime and import them in iLife-apps.

By the way if this haven't already been said, the problem lies with .avi files probably from most cameras using m-jpeg and specifically the Apple OpenDML JPEG codec.