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Saturday, October 18, 2008

How to solve QuickTime error in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 7th edition, Extracted from the site "marridian.blogspot.com"

I Had an un-resolved problem regarding the "Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 7th edition". It was working with "Quick Time 6, But newer versions didn't supports it's sound files. That means.. I could use without Pronunciation guide. After seeking many months I've found out the secret to recover the software very easily. The Link I've found out the solution is this one. Or read the Extracted files here. If you click on a link there You'll automatically connect to the. http://marridian.blogspot.com/2007/04/solution-for-quicktime-error-in-oxford.html

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Solution for QuickTime error in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 7th edition

I just got the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 7th edition. I think it has a bug with QuickTime plug-in. When I installed it, it told me whether I want to install QuickTime. I clicked "No" because I already have QuickTime v.7, then the installation finished. I launched the program, suddenly I got an error.


"The QuickTime Plug-in requires the QuickTime System extension version 5 or later."

Whether I click "OK" or "Cancel", the program is launched. I can search for some words without any problem. Yet I click to hear the pronunciation then it comes the error.

"ERROR function playPron:
TypeError: oEmbed.SetURL is not a function
........MP3"

If you come across this problem too, here is the solution. It is very simple, just follow these steps.

1. Go to the program's folder, it should be in "C:\Program Files\Oxford\OALD7".
2. Rename the "plugins" folder to another, for example "oaldplugins".
3. Go to QuickTime's folder, it should be in "C:\Program Files\QuickTime"
4. Copy the "Plugins" folder and paste it in OALD folder (the same folder as in the step 1)
5. Run the program, you will not get any error again.

48 comments:

martin.humpolec said...

Man, you are genius, thank you!

Anonymous said...

thanx mate u were a great help ,i appreciate

Anonymous said...

Thank you very much. It was very helpful.

some1 from thailand said...

thank you so muchhhhhh

Greek user said...

Simply incredible!
Congratulations and many thanks!

F7 said...

oh man, thank u very much

Anonymous said...

thank u buddy

Anonymous said...

Genius! ^^ Thank you very much!

Anonymous said...

Many many MANYYYYYYYYYYYYYY thanks!

Elegant Hnin said...

Ur such a genius person. I figured it out for long time and tried so many ways. Sholud be seen this earlier. Great help... Thanks a lot:)

Anonymous said...

Thanks Buddy.. It worked for me as well

Anonymous said...

Thanks, your quite logical and cleverly thought of solution did the trick.

Vijay said...
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Anonymous said...

OUP sent the solution to audio problems:

The problem is because OALD7 was originally developed to work with an
older version of QuickTime, and there are some incompatibilities with
newer versions. You can download a patch from our website that will mean
you do not need QuickTime to hear the OALD7's sounds.

Please follow these instructions:

1. Please download the patch file from:
http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.com/zip/elt/no_QT_patch_OALD7.zip (If you
find that you have some difficulties with clicking on this link, it may
be worth highlighting the link and using 'Copy & Paste' to manually
paste it into a new browser window or tab).
2. Unzip no_QT_patch_OALD7.zip. This contains a file named
patch_OALD7.exe.
3. Place the patch utility (patch_OALD7.exe) in any convenient
folder.
4. Run the patch by double-clicking on it.
5. Start the OALD7.

You should now be able to hear the sounds and your OALD7 should now be
working properly

Paul said...

Great, I was very helpless by this time. Now everything works. Thank you very much

VanTheMan said...

Thank you very much mate!!! Could not have done it otherwise!!!! Cheers!!!

Anonymous said...

thanx a lot.that is really great.i have been facing this problem for so many days.now i got the solution.thank u so much

Anonymous said...

Thanks a lot to the patch guy. That idea helped me cause i couldnt find plugins folder in my Quick time Directory. Corrupted installation or something i guess. Anyway great work and thanks again.

Anonymous said...

THANK YOU! I HAVE LIVED WITH THIS PAIN FOR 5 MONTHS. TODAY IS A GREAT DAY.

Fusto di Bruxelles il più gran interprete al mondoooo said...

Merci beaucoup, thanks a lot,
I've been desperate for several months because of that problem with OALD
Now I'm so happy,the guy who found the solution is a great man :)

Anonymous said...

What a super easy solution. Thanks you very much!!

Anonymous said...

Thank you so much GENIUS!!!!!!!!
I've been trying for a month.

Anonymous said...

Exact, it's very easy!
Thanks for this tip man!
Tom

Anonymous said...

Great Thanks !!!

Anonymous said...

thank you very much! it realy worked.

Anonymous said...

thanx a lot

Wei-Shin said...

Thank you. You solved this problem and saved much time of many.

Anonymous said...

How do you know that? You are Genius. Thank you for your help!!

Anonymous said...

It's really helpful. I needed to have this dictionary on my computer, but I was frustrated because I wasn't able to get in. Thanks a lot, seriously!

in.pl said...

Thank you very much. That's incredible! It worked

richeek said...

Thanks mate. It saves a lot of time of me.

Anonymous said...

Not works for me.

The original error message gone, but I get a new one: quicktime failed to initialize...
Quicktime is a crap: backward compatibility? who cares...

Anyway the patch supplied in the comments works :)

Priyantha De Silva said...

Dear Admin of this blog,

I've been searching for months to find the solution for this problem. Finally, I got Vista with Quick time 7 and , XP with quick time 6 to run the OALD7 .

Now , I'm going to use Quick Time 7 for both Systems with your advice . If it works or not , Thank you for the information I was looking for years.

Priyantha De Silva said...

Great !!!!!!!!!!

Thanks !!!!!!!!!!!!

It has worked.
But, I've installed OALD7 in to "I" and , Quick Time 7.5 in to "D" , without all of them in "C", as you said. After , RESTART the computer, It has worked.

Many Many Thanks to you !
You are wonderful !

www.starlankonline.com

Anonymous said...

So great to find this solution.
- great way to show what the problem is...exactly those error messages!!
- clear simple instruction what to so
- solve problem quickly and brilliently

Thank you for your kindness to post this up.
All the best!!!

upendra said...

Many Peopele thanked u and there is one more added to that list pal. I do as yor suggestion and it really work.it was giving me trouble from a long time.i was becoming mad by this problem. thaks man u r really genius.

upendra said...

thanks man u r really genius, this problem was making me mad from long times and now it is solved thanks once again

Surag said...

really genius
thanks a ton

Anonymous said...

It's tremendous. You must honore to yourself for this soloution.

muntasir1124 said...

Hello.. This is Muntasir. I've downloaded the OALD7 from (Oxford_Advanced_Learners_Dictionary_7.torrent)
from btjunkie. After installing the software, when I'm trying to launch the program it's asking for CD/DVD. How can i solve this problem?
Please help me out?

Anonymous said...

omgggggggg! you can't be smarter than anybody else! i have been facing this problem since long long time ago. thankss a million! xoxo

Pham Thanh Hieu said...

You are the smartest man I have aver known!
I would like to thank you a thousand times for your solution!

Ing. Biaggio Arbulú said...

THANK YOU MY FRIEND, A NOBLE ACT SHARING YOUR KNOWLEDGE WITH US. TY. IT WAS VERY USEFUL. GOOD SUPPORT. MAN
XD

Shiv K. Chaudhary said...

Man You are awasome !!!!

Anonymous said...

I have installed the software via the CD (I have bought the book last year) and it doesn't work at all. I can't launch it and I don't have any error message ... just nothing.
I have tried the two solutions described by Marridian and an Anonymous without any positive effect.

Does somebody have an idea of a solution ?

Priyantha De Silva said...

It must work well. If not

Solution 1 ************
Uninstall the Anti virus software, and the ALOD from the computer, reboot.

Now,
Install the "Full" version (Select the list when installing) of ALOD.

Solution 2 ***************
Format the hard disk and install "XP" again to make your operating system OK.

librann said...

thanks alot ! i had a image of oald7 ffor the past few weeks, had same problms as of other?
thanks again

Anonymous said...

thank you so much! now it finally works!!!

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks a million mate; you're genius

Anonymous said...

Need help!
When I start the program,. It said "License data is invalid!"

Anonymous said...

Thank you so much for the quick fix for the quicktime and oxford dictionary!!! Thank you Thank you.

Anonymous said...

Genious!!! Thanks!!

Anonymous said...

You´re a genius! Thanks a lot!

Anonymous said...

Well... I've have had this dictionary working for many years up to a few months ago. I bought it a long time ago. I applied the famous patch and it worked.
Suddenly, it stopped working. I'm using Windows 10 and I think it was one of the updates of windows which made it stop working.
So, I find myself here in April 2024 with an excellent dictionary which is no longer compatible with my operating system even I tried all the solutions posted here.

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