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Welp, looks like Perian (http://perian.org/) is being discontinued:quote:A notice to all of our users and supporters
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May 17, 2012 04:15
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Ugh. I hope someone picks up the torch. The thought of relying on VLC or MPlayer just makes me want to.. Ehh.
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May 17, 2012 05:48
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I've been doing just fine without Perian for a few years now anyway.
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May 17, 2012 05:53
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I remember using perian a long time ago but honestly mplayer has been fine for a while now. The one in the app store (MplayerX) is actually pretty good and been getting updated regularly. Sad to see an option go though.
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May 17, 2012 06:21
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I have no doubt that mplayerx is a good app, I just don't like the idea of not having full support for all those file formats within OSX itself.
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May 17, 2012 06:27
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I don't really get how MplayerX is allowed to exist, it clearly relies on binaries from mplayer/ffmpeg, I thought GPL stuff was no-go on the app store?
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May 17, 2012 06:50
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NOTinuyasha posted:I don't really get how MplayerX is allowed to exist, it clearly relies on binaries from mplayer/ffmpeg, I thought GPL stuff was no-go on the app store?
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May 17, 2012 06:55
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Wait, what is wrong with VLC? It plays everything I need it to, and the new interface is actually kind of nice.
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May 17, 2012 07:02
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NOTinuyasha posted:I don't really get how MplayerX is allowed to exist, it clearly relies on binaries from mplayer/ffmpeg, I thought GPL stuff was no-go on the app store? Apple doesn't care about GPL or not. The only time they take stuff down is when a copyright holder complains. Anyway, I liked perian but QuickTime player is lovely enough that I just ended up using VLC for everything anyway so I admit I haven't had it installed for a long time either.
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May 17, 2012 07:12
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:It's not nearly that black and white. The GPL/App store license incompatibility seems clear: http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-gpl-enforcement http://createdigitalmotion.com/2011/01/as-apple-pulls-gpl-licensed-vlc-the-developers-version-of-events-what-it-means-for-free-video/ Blatant disregard for licensing seems like a red flag to me, what else does the author not care about?
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May 17, 2012 07:14
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So file a complaint on their behalf.
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May 17, 2012 07:28
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I was gonna submit it to the ffmpeg hall of shame, but they took that part of the site down for some reason. Between googling that and complaining here I'm totally spent.
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May 17, 2012 07:44
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Martytoof posted:I have no doubt that mplayerx is a good app, I just don't like the idea of not having full support for all those file formats within OSX itself.
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May 17, 2012 11:33
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P0PCULTUREREFERENCE posted:The week I've had a lot of problems with the audio balance - it looks like the balance is getting thrown to the left in the Sound preference pane. I googled around a bit and saw that this has been a regular and ongoing problem, but thought I'd mention it here in case anyone has a fix or workaround. It's really odd that it just started this week! This occasionally happens to me on my iMac (I think as far back as Leopard). I've heard that it's a bug that can occur when pressing the volume up/down keys too quickly but, speaking as someone who is pretty untechnical, that could be complete nonsense and I wouldn't know.
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May 17, 2012 13:47
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Have they tracked down the reason as to why OS X sometimes logs out when viewing video or audio files? It sometimes happens when I open something in Quicktime or the folder video previews load up. The screen goes gray and the spinning loading icon appears for a moment and I'm thrown back to the login screen. I remember this being an issue in SL but apparently it carried over to Lion and I'm wondering if it's because of a certain software or codec or something.
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May 17, 2012 16:05
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Stare-Out posted:Have they tracked down the reason as to why OS X sometimes logs out when viewing video or audio files? It sometimes happens when I open something in Quicktime or the folder video previews load up. The screen goes gray and the spinning loading icon appears for a moment and I'm thrown back to the login screen. I remember this being an issue in SL but apparently it carried over to Lion and I'm wondering if it's because of a certain software or codec or something. It's highly likely that is Core Graphics crashing..but to be sure.. You should create a test user account to see if you can recreate the same symptoms. and Have you ran disk repair lately? I'd recommend doing that. (From the Recovery Partition) To be really sure what's causing it, you'll have to open Console and look into the System Diagnostic Reports.
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May 17, 2012 17:12
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decypher posted:It's highly likely that is Core Graphics crashing..but to be sure..
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May 17, 2012 17:57
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Yeah, don't just rely on crash reports. Check all your system logs in Console.app, open terminal and run "sudo dmesg" if you have to. There's a lot of information available if you know where to look and how to parse the useful information from regular diagnostic information 
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May 17, 2012 18:40
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My MacBook pro was stuck at the apple logo screen with the spinning thing for an hour and wouldn't boot. Safe boot works. When I turned on verbose boot, it's stuck at the following line: Ham kernel extension version 20090913 <mattias.nissler@gmx.de> I have no idea what that means or where to go from here. Any ideas?
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May 18, 2012 02:27
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Modern Pragmatist posted:My MacBook pro was stuck at the apple logo screen with the spinning thing for an hour and wouldn't boot. Safe boot works. When I turned on verbose boot, it's stuck at the following line: Check /System/Library/Extensions/ for something called TunTap. Either delete it or move it out of that folder to somewhere else and try restarting again.
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May 18, 2012 02:40
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1997 posted:Check /System/Library/Extensions/ for something called TunTap. Either delete it or move it out of that folder to somewhere else and try restarting again. I don't have that particular kernel extension, so no luck.
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May 18, 2012 03:04
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Modern Pragmatist posted:I don't have that particular kernel extension, so no luck. That's interesting because Googling the e-mail address listed for that kernel extensions shows that's the only application made by that developer.
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May 18, 2012 03:10
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1997 posted:That's interesting because Googling the e-mail address listed for that kernel extensions shows that's the only application made by that developer. Well I did have a ham.kext that I moved and then that message disappeared but still no boot. I think that it's printing information about the kernel extensions after they are loaded and for some reason whatever is loaded after ham is the culprit. It's almost like I need an extra verbose mode.
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May 18, 2012 03:14
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Modern Pragmatist posted:I don't have that particular kernel extension, so no luck. http://tuntaposx.sourceforge.net/faq.xhtml Looked up ham.kext and that guy's name and it looks like that's Hamachi: http://www.networkshamachi.com/default.asp?page=hamachi-download http://files.hamachi.cc/osx/README
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May 18, 2012 05:25
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Since I've groused about its absence a few times before, I might as well mention that native Lion fullscreen support has been available in the Firefox nightly builds for a few weeks now, and is targeted for mainstream rollout with FF14.
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May 18, 2012 08:20
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I just updated Safari via Software Update, and it claims my Flash is out of date. Fair enough I thought, and downloaded the installer, but as I was about to install it, I remembered the recent virus that masked itself as a Flash install. Could this be it? 
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May 18, 2012 12:16
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Stare-Out posted:I just updated Safari via Software Update, and it claims my Flash is out of date. Fair enough I thought, and downloaded the installer, but as I was about to install it, I remembered the recent virus that masked itself as a Flash install. Could this be it? The latest update to Safari it supposed to disable old out of date versions of flash and prompt you to upgrade. But if you aren't sure, just go download the latest flash from adobe's website and install it yourself. Edit: If you weren't visiting a suspicious website when that popped up, then it's probably just Safari doing it.
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May 18, 2012 14:27
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echobucket posted:The latest update to Safari it supposed to disable old out of date versions of flash and prompt you to upgrade.
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May 18, 2012 14:31
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Stare-Out posted:I use Chrome exclusively, and it's supposed to keep Flash updated automatically. But it did look like Safari was prompting me to install the latest version and directed me to Adobe's website. Better safe than sorry though. Thanks. If you only use Chrome anyway, the safest thing would be to just uninstall Flash all together.
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May 18, 2012 14:45
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japtor posted:I'm guessing no, but did you look for tap.kext and tun.kext? (rather than "tuntap.kext") Looks like there's stuff in /Library/StartupItems too going by this: Yeah I didn't have either of those. I basically just went into /System/Library/Extensions and started moving things to a temp folder and it turns out that I was able to get it to boot after removing all Parallels kernel extensions. I'll google around and see if people have been having problems with that. Thanks for the help.
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May 18, 2012 15:41
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Modern Pragmatist posted:Yeah I didn't have either of those. I basically just went into /System/Library/Extensions and started moving things to a temp folder and it turns out that I was able to get it to boot after removing all Parallels kernel extensions. I'll google around and see if people have been having problems with that. Thanks for the help. I'll go ahead and tell you now that yes, people have lots of problems with Parallels kexts preventing boot up. I never found the solution to fix it since I just uninstalled it from my machine.
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May 18, 2012 15:46
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1997 posted:I'll go ahead and tell you now that yes, people have lots of problems with Parallels kexts preventing boot up. I never found the solution to fix it since I just uninstalled it from my machine. Weird, I've been using it for years and never experienced anything like that. I use it heavily as well. Guess I should consider myself lucky.
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May 18, 2012 18:21
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I've been noticing lately that when I come back from suspend or lock timeout in my Fall 2010 MacBook Air the backlight won't turn on. I can see the screen is on if I look at it in the light. If I hard restart it the light works fine again. Any ideas?
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May 19, 2012 01:09
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Zapped the PRAM, reset the SMC, had a Fruit Stand check your AC adapter?
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May 19, 2012 03:37
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Stare-Out posted:I use Chrome exclusively, and it's supposed to keep Flash updated automatically. But it did look like Safari was prompting me to install the latest version and directed me to Adobe's website. Better safe than sorry though. Thanks. Chrome keeps its own internal version of Flash up to date. It won't update the systemwide version of Flash you apparently have redundantly installed. explosivo posted:Wait, what is wrong with VLC? It plays everything I need it to, and the new interface is actually kind of nice. Same problems as all other cross-platform apps where OS X is treated as a secondary or even tertiary priority: hamfisted design and feature implementation. Just look at how VLC handles full screen mode: it's using its own implementation rather than the systemwide implementation found in, say, Safari. So you wind up full screening on that desktop rather than having VLC full screen on its own desktop. The one thing I like about VLC is how it downmixes surround sound to stereo/2.1. I consistently hear more detail and depth through VLC than I do through, say, MPlayerX. Terpfen fucked around with this message at 20:41 on May 19, 2012 |
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May 19, 2012 20:37
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Is Synergy still the best app for OS X and Windows KM sharing, and if so are there any prefpanes or menu items that make it easier to set up?
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May 19, 2012 20:39
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timb posted:I've been noticing lately that when I come back from suspend or lock timeout in my Fall 2010 MacBook Air the backlight won't turn on. I can see the screen is on if I look at it in the light. If I hard restart it the light works fine again. Have you tried changing the brightness? The screen stays dark when I open up my 2010 MBP until I change the brightness, for some dumb reason. Terpfen posted:Just look at how VLC handles full screen mode: it's using its own implementation rather than the systemwide implementation found in, say, Safari. So you wind up full screening on that desktop rather than having VLC full screen on its own desktop. There's an option to use Lion's fullscreen as of version 2. Personally, I'm glad they don't do that, because I enjoy being able to see things on my other monitor if I'm fullscreening something. VLC isn't the prettiest, but I still prefer having a separate playlist window.
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May 19, 2012 20:52
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Zenostein posted:
drat straight! I'm glad that apps like VLC and VMWare implement their own non-retarded fullscreen.
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May 20, 2012 03:37
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I will never fathom why Apple implemented fullscreen the way they did. "Let's make the other monitor useless".
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May 20, 2012 03:48
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I kinda figure that fullscreen is meant more for laptops, especially the airs, with smaller screens. On those, it almost makes sense to say, fullscreen safari or mail or whatever. On anything with a decent resolution, at least the way I use a computer, the only thing I'll fullscreen is some sort of video player. (And iCal, but that's just because I may as well, not because it's particularly helpful). When you have multiple monitors, you have the real estate where full-screening isn't all that useful, I guess. Honestly, it's just another of many stupid things that appeared in Lion and won't gently caress off, in my view.
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May 20, 2012 04:42
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