Hi, I've just built fresh binaries of XiphQT - with trunks of Xiph libs and FLAC from the end of the last year. Code-wise there are few changes in the components since the last release: a memory leak fixed and the recently reported issue with iMovie'08 solved. I'd appreciate any help testing, especially on PPC as I don't have access to that architecture anymore. You can find the binaries at: http://people.xiph.org/~arek/ A question - I used to do releases just building all from trunks, including the Xiph libs. Are there any serious reasons I should consider using latest releases instead, if just for some of the libs, for the upcoming release? I wasn't following the changes that closely so I'm not sure if using trunks is still a good idea... Thanks, Arek
On May 29, 2009, at 12:13 PM, Arek Korbik wrote:> > I'd appreciate any help testing, especially on PPC as I don't have > access to that architecture anymore. You can find the binaries at: > http://people.xiph.org/~arek/I might have an old PPC machine I could resurrect. I'll try tomorrow. No promises, though, because it hasn't been used in years. Now, for some testing on a more modern machine, I tried to run this video: http://content.stridegum.com/mattsDownloads/Dancing2008_720p.mov.zip (Actually, it appears to happen with every video I've fed to it; I'm just providing a reference.) I got a message that said Failed: An invalid sample description was found in the movie (-2041) I've been able to learn two things: 1. If I turn off encoding the sound, it works. 2. This also happens with version 0.1.8 as well, so it's not new to this version. I'm doing this with Mac OS X 10.5.7 and QuiickTime Pro 7.6.0 & all updates applied.
I tried xiph-qt-20090529.dmg with a video exporting from iMovie and it did really well. I run OS X 10.5.3. I played it back using vlc. QuickTime player says it cannot open the ogg file "Operation could not be completed. (OSStatus error -50.)". As for following latest code - I'm sure if you used the Thusnelda improvements, the video quality would be better at lower bitrates. Latest releases have bug fixes and new features, which it is good to follow, in particular if security bugs were fixed. Thanks a lot for fixing the iMovie export!! Cheers, Silvia. On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Arek Korbik <arkadini at gmail.com> wrote:> Hi, > > I've just built fresh binaries of XiphQT - with trunks of Xiph libs > and FLAC from the end of the last year. Code-wise there are few > changes in the components since the last release: a memory leak fixed > and the recently reported issue with iMovie'08 solved. > > I'd appreciate any help testing, especially on PPC as I don't have > access to that architecture anymore. You can find the binaries at: > http://people.xiph.org/~arek/ > > A question - I used to do releases just building all from trunks, > including the Xiph libs. Are there any serious reasons I should > consider using latest releases instead, if just for some of the libs, > for the upcoming release? I wasn't following the changes that closely > so I'm not sure if using trunks is still a good idea... > > Thanks, > Arek > _______________________________________________ > theora mailing list > theora at xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/theora >
Hi Silvia, On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer<silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com> wrote:> I tried xiph-qt-20090529.dmg with a video exporting from iMovie and it > did really well. I run OS X 10.5.3. I played it back using vlc. > QuickTime player says it cannot open the ogg file "Operation could not > be completed. (OSStatus error -50.)".I tried both uninstalled and a clean install of xiph-qt-20090529.dmg and all the files I encoded are playable in QuickTime player. Does the error appear for all the encoded files? What about oggs not produced by OSX/QuickTime tools? The "error -50" sounds pretty general, I suspect there could be something wrong with the installation. Can you try doing a clean install (remove any old components + install xiph-qt-20090529 + reboot)? Do you have other 3rd party QuickTime components installed?> > As for following latest code - I'm sure if you used the Thusnelda > improvements, the video quality would be better at lower bitrates. > Latest releases have bug fixes and new features, which it is good to > follow, in particular if security bugs were fixed.Following suggestions, I guess I should make 3 sets of binaries for the release: - built with the latest stable releases of the Xiph libs (would be the default download option), - built with HEADs of the trunks of the libs (what I used to do), - built with HEADs + Thusnelda I think that could work with changes to the download page so it's more obvious what to download if one's not sure, and less cluttered.> Thanks a lot for fixing the iMovie export!!Thanks a lot for helping testing! Arek