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kusno mudiarto 1:23 pm on June 2, 2008 Permalink | Reply

DivX decoder problem during iPhone development

I got a strange problem, and unable to play any kind of movies in my iPhone simulator. iPhone just gave a very unhelpful error messages – “The movie could not be played” if I try to play it from internet. Fortunately, if I play the movie locally, I can see some error message from the log :


[Session started at 2008-06-02 11:29:33 -0700.]
2008-06-02 11:29:43.933 TestMP[444:20b] forceGaplessRingtones = NO
2008-06-02 11:29:44.707 TestMP[444:4003] Error loading /Library/QuickTime/DivX Decoder.component/Contents/MacOS/DivX Decoder:  dlopen(/Library/QuickTime/DivX Decoder.component/Contents/MacOS/DivX Decoder, 262): Symbol not found: _SCDynamicStoreCopyConsoleUser
  Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LangAnalysis.framework/Versions/A/LangAnalysis
  Expected in: /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator2.0.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/SystemConfiguration.framework/Versions/A/SystemConfiguration

It might be caused by DivX decoder that I installed recently. After removing DivX Decoder & Encoder component from /Library/QuickTime, now I can play the movie locally.

But there is still another problem when I tried to play from internet – from my local server; it still won’t play the movies ! .. I tried to download it manually with firefox, and it seems like this is the problem with the mime type. After fixing mime types in the server, voila .. finally I am able to see it running in my iPhone

Tags: iphone

Niall Roche 6:53 am on July 8, 2008 Permalink

I have the same problem, I tried with many different video types and codecs h.264 and mpeg. Did you find a solution to this?
kusno mudiarto 2:27 pm on July 8, 2008 Permalink

I fixed playing movies problem by :

1. removing DivX encoder & Decoder from /Library/Quicktime folder
2. Set the mime type in the server
3. Make sure the server support the partial content (http 1.1 spec). Apache & Nginx supports this. I know mongrel, webrick (from ruby) doesn’t seem to support this feature.

2 & 3 applies only if you want to stream from the server.
Sameer Kellion 5:04 pm on December 21, 2008 Permalink

I had the same problem and the fix mentioned above worked for me too… Thanks for posting.
Shoaibi 4:19 am on April 26, 2009 Permalink

Thanks, worked like a charm…
Matt MacDonald 4:15 pm on May 22, 2009 Permalink

Same fix worked for me too.
Sudha 3:40 am on November 23, 2009 Permalink

It really helps me lot. Thanks for the post.