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murasame · #4 (**permalink**) August 1st, 2004

This can also be due to a corruption somewhere in the file's code: when Quicktime encounters the corrupted point, it interprets it as a stop point and stops playback. This can also explain why, despite the fact that you know its a 100M+ file, Quicktime probably shows that it's only 1 minute long: when opening the file, Quicktime estimates the lenght of it by going through the data, right? Well, if it encounters a corruption in the file that prompts it to stop looking for further data, then Quicktime will think that the file is only as large as it was able to estimate (does this make any sense whatsoever?) :S