QuickTime 7.2 breaks playback of flv files opened by URL

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... while it worked very well with QuickTime 7.1.6! Now, doing File -> Open URL… and opening a flv file always gives Alert The URL is not valid error dialog box. The file is first completely downloaded. You can watch the .qtch cache file grow in ~/Library/Caches/QuickTime/downloads/... Once the transfer is finished, the error is displayed. I should mention that downloading the same file by another mean first and opening with File -> Open File… perfectly works.

I hope someone can understand this problem and fix it.

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Workaround the "Open URL…" bug for movies < 4GB

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As expected, this is a bug in QuickTime, more precisely in the HTTPDataHandler. DataHGetFileSize64 in dataref_open() works but then DataHScheduleData64 in dataref_read() fails.

A patch is attached. This is obviously only a workaround for movies < 4GB, but I think it's nevertheless worth including in the trunk. Anyway, I don't think a lot of people will try to play 4GB+ files over http ;-)

Also, that would be very nice to release a 1.0.1 version with this patch included so that people can still load movies from URL.

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I think we should file yet another QT bug with an unpatched Perian as the example.

Not to say we can't add this patch (which looks fine to me).

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And what about a 1.0.1 release ?

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Replying to 0xced:

And what about a 1.0.1 release ?

We do not release our timelines to the public.

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Let's add the patch. Close ticket when radar is made and patch is attached.

[astrange]

(In [703]) Apply patch by 0xced to fix playback over URL on QuickTime 7.2. Closes #222.

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Great, thank you Alexander :-)