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H264: cannot locate bundle “com.apple.QuickTimeH264.component” => bailing out!
Here’s another hair-puller for future Google searches. My brand-new MacBook Pro inherited a problem from my old MacBook Pro: videos shot on my iPhone would lock up QuickTime Pro. No quicklook previews. No iPhoto. Trying to watch would play audio and then show the Rainbow Spinning Wheel of Doom.
A quick look at the Console logs showed messages like this:
7/4/10 4:05:33 PM [0x0-0x2e92e9].com.apple.quicktimeplayer[6860] H264: cannot locate bundle “com.apple.QuickTimeH264.component” => bailing out!
If you google this particular expression, you won’t find anything. Boo!
I wasted some time trying to fix a broken folder (not a bundle!) named QuickTimeH264.component in ~/Library/Quicktime. Then I had an epiphany and simply deleted the offending folder.
Portrait video from iPhone now plays correctly. I’m assuming the broken QuickTimeH264.component was leftover from QuickTime Pro or some other component before Snow Leopard was released.
