Windows – How to fix Quicktime that is not playing videos from Apple’s website

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I have a windows 7 system and would like to watch one of Apple's keynotes.

I have downloaded Quicktime player version 7.0 and it automatically starts as soon as I click on the video. But after starting nothing seems to be happening. I just see a Quicktime loading screen and that is it. No video seen.
I have problems playing any Quicktime video for that matter especially from the Apple website.

What could be going wrong and how to fix?

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In the past I had ad blockers that picked up on Apple's website videos (not the keynote that you have mentioned specifically) but worth checking if you have any extensions or addons installed that is currently doing that

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You may want to try QTIndexSwapper by Renaun Erickson. It's an Adobe AIR app that detects if a movie is ready for web and if not it tries to move the index (header) to the beginning of the file thus allowing a simultaneous download and playback.

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That feature is part of Lion and QuickTimeX, but you can disable it.

Open your terminal (/Application/Utilities/Terminal.app) or use Spotlight to find the Terminal and type:

defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false

That should stop QuickTime from saving the opened windows when you quit it.

If you want to revert the behavior, change the "false" to "true".

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