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From: Jim on 15 Apr 2010 01:06 Bruce Horrocks <07.013(a)scorecrow.com> wrote: > On 14/04/2010 10:09, Jim wrote: > > Seconded. You can't move the control bar out of the window, so it's*always* > > blocking some part of the video. > > It does fade away if you move the mouse out of the control bar. You make > it sound like it's always there. Fair point. Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
From: R on 15 Apr 2010 04:21 Phil Taylor <nothere(a)all.invalid> wrote: > It's likely to have been a problem with the Launch Services database, > and installing a system update might well have involved rebuilding > that. There is a way of forcing a rebuild from the Terminal if the > problem recurs (Google "rebuild launch services database" should find > it). I'll bear that in mind should it reoccur, thanks!
From: Chris Ridd on 15 Apr 2010 14:52 On 2010-04-14 20:22:46 +0100, Chris Ridd said: > On 2010-04-14 10:47:47 +0100, Jim said: > >> On 2010-04-14, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: >>> But in general me too. I also like that H.264 stuff is handed off to >>> the GPU in QTX. Actually, I haven't measured how much difference that >>> makes. >> >> Let me know if you do - I'd be interested in the results. > > I'll need to find a nice big H.264 file first. I tried on the Repo Man title sequence, in "fit to screen" so I could see top running. Quicktime Player 7 (with Perian disabled) used about 15% CPU *and* used another process called vdecoder which used another 15% ish CPU. Quicktime Player X used about 7% CPU, and no extra processes. -- Chris
From: Rowland McDonnell on 15 Apr 2010 20:31 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: [snip] > Have you tried using 'get info' on a QT extension file and set it to be > opened by QT7, and checked 'change all'? Or doesn't that work in the new > OS? QT 7 Player isn't available as an option for opening many video files in 10.6.3 - when asking it to open files created using QT 7 under 10.4.11. > I used to use Misfox for this kind of thing but I don't suppose for a > second that it has survived as far as 10.6. I've been using Misfox with 10.6 ever since I got that version of the OS. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Rowland McDonnell on 15 Apr 2010 20:31
Tim Streater <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote: > real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) wrote: > > [snip] > > > <shrug> Who can guess what the OS will think is an appropriate > > extension, or what extensions the OS thinks are available to which > > applications? > > > > All I know is that `it gets it wrong an awful lot now, often denying > > that that app I want to use can open the file type in question when it > > bloody well can and does when I drag-and-drop'. > > > > And this is new behaviour - never used to behave that way. > > > > Whatever Apple's done to the mechanisms linking files to apps, it's > > foobar now. > > And whatever happened to metadata (hmmm, well, I suppose the extension > *is* metadata). OK - whatever happened to *proper* metadata? > > Is the extension now the only way to connect a file to an app? I've no idea what mechanisms Apple uses for the job, but I do know that it's /very/ badly fucked up under MacOS X 10.6. Been working great since I started using Macs in 1990, that whole side of thing - and now Apple's introduced some sort of new mechanism that just doesn't work properly. Gawd knows why. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking |