What's up with these quicktime -2048 errors?!?
by Matty@Switch
on
Oct 1, 2005 at 4:30:30 pm
Hi all-
Ok.. I'm at my wit's end. I've been hitting the wall with this problem for the last 3 days as my
client's patience quickly evaporates. I can't lick it! Has anyone else been in this pickle before??
no... didn't think so ;)
Here's the deal: Captured a 99min HD feature (1080i) from HDCam in 20 minute chunks (due to
a 60% full XRAID). Used a Blackmagic HDLink Pro card and captured using uncompressed BM 10-bit
codec. Resulting captures were cut into timeline and rendered off using the same codec to a single
file using Quicktime conversion. The resulting 720GB .mov can be opened from my XRaid in the finder
and in Quicktime with no problem.
However, once I copy the file to the client's 1T LaCie portable (a fun 5-hour copy!) the file is no
longer recognized by Quicktime. Sure, it has a Quicktime icon in the finder, but there is no preview
available and once I launch it into Quicktime player I get an error -2048 "Quicktime doesn't recognize
this filetype". WTF?!?
I have tried every method I can think of to complete this process in alternative ways. I've rendered
directly to the LaCie drive... I've Un-installed Quicktime, and the Blackmagic drivers and re-installed.
I've tried different versions of Quicktime and the BM drivers. I've tried different external disks (three
different at this point). I've tried mounting the externals on a different computer. I've tried different
cables. I've tried re-capturing several times, and have run every diagnostic I have including Disk Utility,
Disk Warrior, Symantec, etc. I've used the Blackmagic Deckcontrol utility to capture. I've reset P-Ram,
trashed preferences all to no avail.
I'm not aware of any filesize limitations with Quicktime, but interestingly enough, when I rendered small
chunks of the video out to the external drives (a 200mb chunk) IT was recognized no problem. I wondered
if the Mac file system had issues with large files in the root directory, and tried copying to a sub-directory
but that didn't work either.
This is a process I have done many times in the past for these clients - always without a hitch. The only
thing that has changed recently in my system was a power outtage we experienced two weeks ago. Didn't
see any adverse affects at the time, but I wonder if this has anything to do with anything...
Any input would be great!!
-Matt
MY System Specs:
Dual 2.5 G5 w/ 2.5gb ram
OSX 10.4.2
Quicktime 7.0.2
Blackmagic 5.1
FCP 5.0.2
XRaid 2.7T
Apple Fiber Channel Card
Re: What's up with these quicktime -2048 errors?!? by Le Coyote on Oct 2, 2005 at 4:40:38 pm
in my experience, this error means somethings like "end of file was reached prematurely". So either the file is corrupted when it is written on the Lacie or when it is read on it.
Did you try copying back the file to the Xraid? Is the Lacie one of those funky drive with two drives inside RAIDed toghether?
Re: What's up with these quicktime -2048 errors?!? by Matty@Switch on Oct 4, 2005 at 12:39:46 am
Yes... It must be one of the funky LaCie drives with two 500gb raided together... only way I can figure
how they got 1T in one small case.. are there known issues?
an update:
Under Apple's supervision I have upgraded my XRaid's firmware, pulled and cleaned all connectors,
pulled the raid controllers and reseated them, and pulled the fiber-channel card and reseated that.
I have noticed some improvement, but haven't fully tested my problem out yet...
