Some of my XP users have recently been reporting crashes when they
opened a particular window in my app. After lots of testing, and even
buying a new XP system of similar configuration, I've been able to
isolate the problem and wanted to share the cause and add it to the
archives.
Opening any window which contains a QuickTime based MoviePlayer
control will immediately crash if the app is running on an XP system
that has an Nvidia graphics card and any of their recent drivers,
since May 2007.
This crash is very widespread even beyond RB apps and affects the
QuickTime plugin for web browsers. Interestingly the COM based
QuickTime Player does not crash on those same systems. But Apple's
own QTController sample code crashes in the same way when playing
even just the Sample.mov file.
There are several long threads about this on the Nvidia forums:
http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion/index.php?t37997.html
http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion/index.php?t42057.html
The best solution seems to be installing an older version of the
Nvidia driver, until either Nvidia or Apple provides an update to
solve this problem. All of Nvidia's 1xx.yy series drivers seem to be
problematic including the released 163.75 and the beta 169.09
versions.
So anyone who uses RB's Movie Player on Windows should be aware of
this crashing problem and consider advising their XP users with
Nvidia cards to not upgrade their drivers, or even to downgrade them
if they experience the crashing.
Hope this helps,
Joe Huber
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