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Apple QuickTime Error –1856 and Error -43

I am on the hook for delivering media services for my local church, so I spend a fair amount of time creating videos, commercials, and editing for any number of broadcast.  I depend heavily on Apple’s Quicktime (QT) software, so when all of a sudden I started getting, Error –1856: an unknown error occurred (filename.mov) when trying to use tools like Sony Vegas which also draws a quicktime dependency, I started hitting the search engines to find out how to solve this on PC platform.

Note: I am running Windows 7 x64. There are a few search results that have surfaced but most are for one of the many Apple OS’s.

After installing, uninstalling, purchasing two different registry cleaning applications, rolling back to a previous restore point to when I knew things were working, a variety of debugging tools including Windows debuggers, and Process Viewer from system internals and last but not least rebooting several times, all to no avail, I finally came up with a work around / fix.  I still have not discovered root cause, I am thinking something changed between the latest version of QT and Sony Vegas 9.0d.

If you flag QuickTime to run as administrator and Vegas to run as administrator QT will operate as expected.  I still get the error if I do not run QT as administrator.  This got me past my problem and I am able to work with .MOV files again.

As another note I did try to install other codecs like K-Lite as others who had this problem attempted to do.  I could get .MOV files to play fine with other codecs, however many of my tools both the ADOBE editing suite and the Sony Creative Software suite draw dependencies on QT for some reason.  The error is not well documented and almost all of the discussion forums I have come across have not posted resolutions, so hopefully this will save someone the heartache I have experienced over the past four or five days.

Ever Email yourself?

There have been times when Emailing myself was the best or fastest way to get something stored on a server for quick access to it from another location.

If you are Outlook or an Outlook Web Access (OWA) user you can post an item to a given folder instead of being forced to send a message to yourself (see the screen shots below).

  
Outlook 2007 Interface

Outlook Web Access Interface

Text Messaging while driving?

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From the site

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Sign up today! It is free!!

ScottGu’s lots of list of links…

March 21st Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, AJAX, Visual Studio, Silverlight

I am not a big fan of pointing to other blog entries with long list of more links.  However I will make an occasional exception.  Scott Guthrie’s has posted 15 or more really interesting links to help us get up to speed on the latest development technologies including Silverlight, ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC.

Enjoy!

VB and C# Coevolution

Product Unit Manager for Visual Studio languages, Scott Wiltamuth blogs about the shift in strategy for VB and C#.  Read more here

MIX Keynote Day 1 – Windows Mobile 7

Finally Microsoft takes a real swing at Android, iPhone and Blackberry!

View the Day 1 keynote here

Where other phone competitors continue to fail at delivering Flash to the mobile device, Windows Mobile 7 delivers Silverlight on Windows Mobile 7.

In addition Windows Mobile 7 also delivers Zune Market place and 3rd party content music/video services as well. The Zune market place subscription model provides one of the best user experiences around.

Great mail and calendar support for the business users in addition to finally delivering a compelling social networking platform.

One key for Microsoft to really thrive past launch is a great application market where it easy to download and plenty of free/trial software.

I am really look forward to Windows Mobile 7!