Console Says . . . QuickTime/AviImporter-r7 . . . er . . . What?

Doctor X · #1 February 25th, 2009, 01:45 AM

So I have read that with Console, "your Mac is practically SCREAMING at you!"

Too bad it is in Etruscan.

As with my signature:

MacBook 2.4 GigHz, 4 RAM, 10.5.6, with Perian Loaded, Flip4Mac

Had a system-wide crash after everything had been fine. Specifically, Mail was doing its thing, I had Firefox running as I was posting when I got the BeachBall of Death.

Fine. Except this affected everything. I could not force-quit I had to hard restart.

I decided to check Console--this is an example of what it showed at the time of the crash.

2/24/09 10:55:40 PM SystemUIServer[185] Error loading /Library/QuickTime/AviImporter-r7 (ppc).component/Contents/MacOS/AviImporter: dlopen(/Library/QuickTime/AviImporter-r7 (ppc).component/Contents/MacOS/AviImporter, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Library/QuickTime/AviImporter-r7 (ppc).component/Contents/MacOS/AviImporter: mach-o, but wrong architecture

2/24/09 10:55:43 PM Mail[168] Error loading /Library/QuickTime/XviD_Codec-r58 (ppc).component/Contents/MacOS/XviD_Codec: dlopen(/Library/QuickTime/XviD_Codec-r58 (ppc).component/Contents/MacOS/XviD_Codec, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Library/QuickTime/XviD_Codec-r58 (ppc).component/Contents/MacOS/XviD_Codec: mach-o, but wrong architecture

which repeats.

I ran Onyx after checking Console after the hard restart.

Now things seem fine, but checking Console, I notice the same error. For example, during the running of Onyx:

2/24/09 10:58:25 PM OnyX[342] Error loading /Library/QuickTime/XviD_Codec-r58 (ppc).component/Contents/MacOS/XviD_Codec: dlopen(/Library/QuickTime/XviD_Codec-r58 (ppc).component/Contents/MacOS/XviD_Codec, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Library/QuickTime/XviD_Codec-r58 (ppc).component/Contents/MacOS/XviD_Codec: mach-o, but wrong architecture

After restart twice to rebuild caches, I notice the same problem.

My Google Fu showed discussions regarding peripherals like a camera, and people loading Perian--which I have--and " dumping the Library/QuickTime/AviImporter-r7 (Intel).component."

Reading that--as above and my signature--this error is listing a "(ppc)" rather than Intel.

So I looked . . . in QuickTime under my user Library I have the Perian and "AC3MovieImport.component" . . .whatever that is.

Checking Hard Drive ---> Library ---> QuickTime I find the Wee Beastie:

Okay . . . so . . . anything going on? Something I need to fix?

--J.D.

#1 Rhapsody · #2 February 25th, 2009, 09:24 AM

Sounds like Quicktime needs to be reinstalled.

Doctor X · #3 February 25th, 2009, 02:22 PM

I wondered about that. Should I uninstall that XviD_Codec as well?

I cloned the drive so if I end up tearing a hole in the fabric of the Universe, I can go back.

--J.D.

#1 Rhapsody · #4 February 25th, 2009, 02:26 PM

Yes, you probably should remove it because it appears to be PPC.

ElDiabloConCaca · #5 February 25th, 2009, 02:32 PM

It looks like only the XviD codec is causing problems.

If you remove all the XviD codecs, does Quicktime behave itself? It's worth a shot to do this before going through an entire reinstall of Quicktime.

Doctor X · #6 February 25th, 2009, 02:37 PM

Already did the re-install!!111!!

Though I "saved" everything in separate files--contents of the two Library folders.

Be back in a sec . . . after reboot. . . .

--J.D.

Doctor X · #7 February 25th, 2009, 02:50 PM

Interesting.

So I have done that and now there are no library folders for QuickTime in the HD library or my user library--the former had the pictured elements. I will try replacing them and then see if I can get a new one of that XviDCodec.

--J.D.

Mikuro · #8 February 25th, 2009, 03:00 PM

Notice that the log says "...but wrong architecture" about XviD and AviImporter, the two that are marked as PPC. You need to find Intel-compatible versions of those plugins, or remove them.

If you have other PPC-only plugins you'll need to remove them as well.

I think Perian should make the AviImporter and FLV importer obsolete, btw. Probably the Divx Decoder, too, and also Xvid (unless you're using Xvid to encode videos, not to watch them).

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