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I have the same problem on G5 PPC, you can't change any of the x264 settings at all, it will crash. Older version v1.0.5 might work better for now.

Followup (because I can't edit post because it wasn't approved. I'm not a spammer)

You can disable the loop filter another way in the "Input and Codecs" tab, this seems to work. Now I can play 1080p on a Dual G5.

Trying to check "Skip Loop Filter" now crashes on my computer (Dual G5, 10.5.. It did work in 1.1.2. It does not work in 1.1.4.1 or 1.1.5 (nightly).

1.2.0 (nightly) does not launch at all.

I deleted all prefs and caches and it makes no difference.

Good to hear it's been figured out. Hopefully the next main release can be for both PPC and Intel.

Solution Found I just tried the debug build on my G5. I noticed two videos also in the directory, cea.mov and downloadfirstlook.m4v. downloadfirstlook.m4v works fine for me, I don't know if that is supposed to be a bad one or not. cea.mov looks just like the picture above. The solution that works f...