Comments on: Quicktime: Invalid Public Movie Atom was Found in the Movie

By: twthead

twthead — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:31:17 +0000

Get a program called handbrake and re-encode. Worked for me.

Not really anything to do with re-installing codecs.

This article is really shallow and un-helpful.

By: SarahKH

SarahKH — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:55:09 +0000

No, the problem is not related to codec's. I've had this error with pretty much every file I've transcoded from avi using ffmpeg (command line script). Whilst VLC will play the files quite happily, Quicktime will not… throwing the stated error message.

The only solution I've currently found is to throw the file back in to be transcoded using something like HandBrake so it builds the MP4 structure QT is expecting.

By: Mannox

Mannox — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:56:52 +0000

IF you have the files saved on an external drive (or even if they were at ANY point saved on an external drive), go to your manuf's website and download the latest firmware upgrade for that external drive. Worked for me and solved ALL my .dmg issues, ALL my public movie atom issues, and all my "Error 4960" issues.

If the files became "corrupt" at some point (while they were on an external drive) - copying them to another location would only be making copies of broken files. You have to go back to the drive (hopefully they are still there). Keeping the files ON the drive, update the firmware. Everything came back for me, instantly. Whew!

mannox@gmail.com

By: Calvin

Calvin — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:23:47 +0000

is there a solution to save the files?

By: Rene

Rene — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:54:52 +0000

Video Lan Player

By: film festival maven

film festival maven — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:32:08 +0000

Whats' VLC?

By: tigercore

tigercore — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:17:50 +0000

Meh, I opened it with VLC and it woks fine.

By: Matraxx

Matraxx — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:57:49 +0000

Useless article. Thanks for nothing!

By: dennis

dennis — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:22:47 +0000

This does us Mac users running 10.5 Leopard no good at all, since AVS works on Bill Gates machines only. Got a solution for Apple computers?

By: jespschultz

jespschultz — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:13:54 +0000

Screw the codec...I downloaded VLC player and the files play fine:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/