[QLab] Leopard Status

[Christopher Ashworth]

Hi all,

Just wanted to give everyone an update on where things stand with  
Leopard.

I've been working hard to comb out the last little hiccups on  
Leopard.  The good news is that I've only found two non-Quicktime  
Leopard-specific issues so far, and they were both minor.   It just so  
happens that one of them spewed lots of console messages, potentially  
causing stutters as the disk worked to record all those messages.  (I  
was able to send Josh and Oliver a test build on Sunday, and they  
confirmed that fixing that issue fixed the stutters.)

The bad news is that Apple has still not fixed the Quicktime bug that  
appeared in Quicktime 7.2.   Quicktime 7.2.1, which ships with  
Leopard, still causes Video Cues to break when using multiple video  
cards e.g. on a Mac Pro.  I have confirmed this breaks even with  
Apple's example code, so it's not a QLab problem.  I have updated my  
bug report on this issue to ask for an update on the status of the  
bug.  Hopefully they'll be able to provide some useful information.

Moreover, the Quicktime 7.2.1 update continues the long tradition of  
finding something new to break (or at least change) so that it borks  
third-party code.  This has caused an obstinate problem with the Video  
Cue that I am still working to resolve.

Sorry for the wait, and I'll try to get this wrapped up as soon as I  
can.

Thanks,
Chris