Compressor 4 causing other programs to hang...
I just used Compressor 4 to transcode 3 roughly 3.5 minute long 720p25 Quicktime None files to Quicktime ProRes 422.
I must say, it was faster than I remember it being in the past (despite not neing 64-bit yet!!), but it made everything else on my computer (Safari, Mail, Echofon, iTunes) hang with beach balls until it was done.
Surely that isn't right?! Especially for a 2011 Quad 2.3 i7 MBP w/ 8GB RAM and on an SSD!!
Anyone else having similar issues?
compressor 3.5 uses qmaster to actually render transcodes and that definitely runs nice (bottom priority, no beach balls) i would assume that if you get beach balls maybe the new qmaster doesn't run as nice process, either that or there are bigger issues at hand.
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ITunes and other programs hang after starting...
Hello everyone,
Programs effected:
iPhoto
Adobe Acrobat
iTunes (Only when I open the iTunes Store)
Problem:
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Any ideas for further diagnosis?
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Description:
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Application Name: firefox.exe
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Application Timestamp: 4c48d5ce
Hang Signature: 9962
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Additional Hang Signature 4: 9962
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Additional Hang Signature 6: 2b94
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I have a problem that I can not load or even close the download in iTunes, it turns out I have hanging in the mode, and because of that I can't download from AppStore, because it turns out that the other programs I have on standby. What do I do? Thank you.
If there are multiple apps trying to download at once, only one can download at a time and the rest say "Waiting" until it is then their turn. Try this. Double tap the icon of the Waiting app, and it should resume the download.
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[solved] Some programs cause problems for sound in other programs.
Today I noticed that audio has stopped working in some applications, but not others. The programs that I know where it doesn't work are:
Hotline Miami (game)
VLC
Dungeons of Dredmor (game)
Uplink (game)
Programs where I know it works are:
mplayer / smplayer (on the same files where vlc does not work)
mpd
Programs run through wine
Standalone flash player and the firefox flash plugin
Additionally, when I run a program where audio doesn't work, I have to restart programs where it does. For example, I'll pause mpd, open Hotline Miami, and then quit. When I try to unpause mpd, I'll get the error message "Failed to open audio output". But if I try a couple times, it will eventually resume. It's a similar situation for mplayer. I'll have to quit and restart mplayer a couple times after trying one of the other programs before audio will work.
Further complicating the matter is that there are no error messages for the programs where audio does not work. I can't seem to track down the problem. I also don't do much with sound beyond using mpd and mplayer, so I don't know when this started.
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EDIT: I just noticed that the problem is not what I thought. Part of the problem was simply due to volume. So I can get sound in the listed programs. However, running those programs does still cause the problem for the mplayer and mpd where I have to restart them.
Last edited by mathfreak (2014-03-10 13:27:10)Gah. It does appear to have been a pulseaudio thing. I hadn't even realized it was installed, let alone running. I've fixed it. Thanks for the help! And thanks, brebs, for the asoundrc file. I think it'll help a lot.
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Hi,
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When I fire up something like FL Studio (a digital audio workstation, which is fairly processor-intensive... and probably more-so because of the standard sound card), it runs great until the fan kicks on. When that happens, the program hangs up and the sound repeats like a broken record. After 4 or 5 seconds everything goes back to normal, and the fan slows down again. This happens again and again roughly every 30 seconds, maybe every minute.
I thought FL Studio might just be putting too much strain on the CPU (though its in-program CPU meter shows that it never goes above 40% and I don't run any major processes in the background) until I installed an old copy of Warcraft III. The game does the exact same thing...runs incredibly well and then just locks up for a few seconds when the fan kicks on, then runs incredibly well again...and it came out roughly 8 years ago. Sometimes it will hang up every 10 seconds depending on how many people are on the screen, which makes it pretty much zero fun.
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Offline Files (Background) Sync makes File Explorer and other programs responding slow
Hi TechNet,
I have a problem with Offline Files and
especially with VPN users.
For VPN users, the slow-link
policy is activated with a background
sync interval of one hour. But, when Offline Files is syncing, their File Explorer is hanging (not responding) by creating new files/folders, deleting files/folder, or rename files/folders. This happens only in their (redirected)UserData
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This problem occurs in both the
internal network and via VPN, so bandwidth is
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(Sorry for my bad English)Hello,
May I know if there is any update there?
Please let me know if I can help you more, thanks.
BR,
Steven Song
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Hello Steven,
First, sorry for the late response, I have tested a few things for you:
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Online Mode with Manual Sync over a LAN connection: During sync File Explorer hangs in (redirected)UserData Folders (They are always available offline, maybe this is a problem?). With UNC paths, there is no delay…
The first folder/file is created slowly, but the second is fast.
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still
must initialize
the cache…or something…
I m I made some
print screens, but I can not upload them because my account is not verified.......
trT Thanks,
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