Used Poser extensively last weekend - no problems. On Sunday night, installed Quicktime7 (+itunes) to use a new codec. Result: Poser6 won't run - halts during load or halts during menu operations or exits on disk file operations. Have reloaded Poser6 runtime from backup and also have reloaded Poser6 from scratch plus SR2. No joy. I have just done a WinXP restore back to a couple of hours before loading Quicktime - and everyhing is working perfectly. Makes me think that a Quicktime7 codec or dll may be incompatible with Poser6. Cannot find this case by searching this forum, but I thought I should let you all know. David. (martindj)

I had a HD crash last week, and just got around to reinstalling all my apps. I loaded Quicktime 7 Pro first, then loaded Poser 6 shortly thereafter. Same problem... Poser would shut down immediately when I tried to load it. I found this strange, since I had both of these programs running together before the crash without problems. To make a long story short, the solution, for me at least, turned out to be drivers I'm using for my Nvidia FX graphics card. Once I went to Nvidia's website and updated WinXP with the newest drivers for FX products, it cleared up the crashes immediately.

in OS X, one of the latest DivX codecs is alleged to conflict with QT and/or poser

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=1889241

YeaPoser and QuickTime dont play well together (see link for a fix). For QT codec I just use the QuickTime Alternative (find with Goggle), which doesnt install the QT Player and all its OS system intrusiveness. I love my little iPod but hated using iTune with itreplaced that with XPlay. SWAMP (Chuck)

Thank you for your supportive help. I thought I was losing it! I will try the suggestions referenced, but I fear I have spent a little too much time on fixing this already.
Glad you could care and share.
David (martindj)

Message edited on: 02/21/2006 01:11

I have Quicktime problem but reversed. I have P6 and win 2k pro. P6 works well but... The Quicktime mov. dos not play. I can not render to Quicktime in my cinema 4d. an it be the poser6 disturbing Quicktime?

The Poser 6 shutdown problem is due to outdated Nvidia drivers in every case I've seen reported here, including my own. :-) Updating to the most recent version (IIRC released in February or March of last year) fixes the problem. I've never seen any Quicktime 7 / Poser 6 conflict, not that it's not possible. So far as I'm aware the only codec updated in recent versions of iTunes is the H.264 video codec, which has indeed presented some problems for 5G iPod owners. If you use iTunes or Quicktime Pro to convert media for the video iPod, don't. :-) Use a third-party app such as Cucusoft's converter for a much faster and more reliable conversion.

I have changed the name of the "Mac.MRW plugin" and sudernly my Quicktime player vorks and C4D render to mov. It must be some type of conflict!

What did you change the name to?

Attached Link: DivX, P6, Mac OS Tiger Info

*Quote from MissNancy: "in OS X, one of the latest DivX codecs is alleged to conflict with QT and/or poser"*

This is true if you're using a version earlier then DivX 6 with 10.4.x or haven't installed P6's SR2. From e-frontier's website:

The best solution is to download and install our SR 2 updater, which fixes this problem; another option is to quit Poser, navigate into the Macintosh HD:Library:QuickTime folder and move the DivX 5.component file to another location (on the Desktop, into a separate folder, etc.) Then, when you next launch Poser, the problem should be resolved and dialogs and alerts should function normally. A final resolution relies on DivX updating their codec to fully support Tiger; as noted on the following pages on the DivX website

You can read of the other problems associated with DivX, Mac OS 10.4.x and P6 at the attached link. For the record, I have DivX 5.2 installed running P6 under 10.3.9 running trouble free. But I also have SR2 installed.

Okay, Im still a little unclear here. I see a lot of info regarding OSX and Poser, but not so much about Windows. I'm using XP Home, and as soon as I installed QT7, Poser dumped on load, exactly as described in the first post. Uninstalling QT7and reinstalling QT6 fixed the problem, but I'd kind of like to have 7 available - there are several websites that now use media that won't work in anything else.

ptrope, Just go to Poser's RuntimeImagelOplugins folder and either delete or rename the file ImageIO_Mac.mrw (example: ~ImageIO_Mac.mrw).

I have pc but the problem sems to be the same. And SR2 makes P6 to not work for me.

ok now this is strange I installed Quicktime 7 today. my Poser 6 (Sr2) is running just fine here.. multiple exits and reloads and no sign of any problems.. could it be Itunes?