Understanding ProRes Proxy to ProRes

Trying to get my head around the proxy thing. In FCP X I have -  create Optimized Media & Proxy Media Checked. So I am doing all my editing in Proxy right?
So now it come time to export my project. I use compressor and select ProRes 422 (regular quality) and it appears to work BUT takes 8 times the length of my clip to transcode! So it is  basically taking the proxy, seeing what I've done to it and then adding those changes to what version of the clip? the ProRess Std verions?
Just wondering how Compressor / FCP X goes from a ProRes proxy version to a Std ProRes version or HQ or 444 version - what is actually happening? 

Proxy media is a proxy to the original media.  FCPX always retains the original media. 
When you edit the proxy, the edit is only applied to the proxy data, not the originals.  When you export (cmd-E), frame rate is set in the project, and the output quality (eg ProRes, ProResHQ, etc set in the export dialog box.  The output file is created by re-applying the edits in the timeline by rendering those to the original media as per these settings.
If your original media was 720p60 H264 (from AVCHD ingest), for example, you could set the project to 30fps (730p30) and export to ProResHQ if you liked.  This would require your Mac to decode the original, apply the changes, and recompress to ProResHQ.  However long this takes is however long it takes.  But your Mac will be 'snappy' while performing the edits, because the proxy file is small and low on CPU during edits.
If your mac is a little faster, and you're happy with standard ProRes quality, then creating optimised media on ingest will slow your mac down a bit, but exporting to standard ProRes will be much quicker, as clips, transitions can be rendered in the background while you fiddle around editing, and when you're ready to export most of the heavy work is already done, so it will be much quicker.  But your Mac must be fast enough to edit in standard ProRes quality.
Hope this makes sense.
Chris.

Similar Messages

  • ABAP Proxy guide?

    Dear all
    i am a ABAPer,as abap mapping is done, i am about to test ABAP proxy,
    my XI have two client(100, 200) for proxy.
    but it is not easy to understand ABAP proxy for me,
    even though i've read relevant to ABAP proxy on this site. and i could not follow this.
    so is there a sample guide document by step by step?
    i will highly be appreciated in advance.
    thank you
    Y.D

    3.     Proxies  :
    Proxies are used for connecting to SAP systems.....
    when you design new integration scenarios in SAP systems which are based on Web AS 6.20 or higher.
    Proxies support both Synchronous and Async. Connectivity.
    and for inbound interfaces are called server proxies.
    Prerequisties foe abap proxies:
    -register queues in sxmb_adm.
    -HTTP destination on SAP system (on which proxy is developed) pointing to XI
    system.
    - configure your SAP system to act as IE using SXMB_ADM transaction.  
    >>what are proxies used for and how good they are..
    http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/86/58cd3b11571962e10000000a11402f/content.htm
    Refer to these links :
    http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/02/265c3cf311070ae10000000a114084/frameset.htm
    abap:
    /people/prateek.shah/blog/2005/06/14/file-to-r3-via-abap-proxy
    /people/siva.maranani/blog/2005/05/23/communication-between-sap-system-webservice-using-proxies
    /people/siva.maranani/blog/2005/04/03/abap-server-proxies
    /people/ravikumar.allampallam/blog/2005/03/14/abap-proxies-in-xiclient-proxy
    regards..
    vishal

  • ClassCastException at Proxy

    We are getting this exception at our proxy server!!!. My understanding is proxy is just a pass through so it should not serialize and de-serialize. So not sure why i get this. Is this complaining with some coherence internal object de-serialize? also what is suspicious is why it says Id=null in the following exception stack trace? What does that Id stand for?
    20100514 11:22:08.681 EDT Coherence SEVERE: 2010-05-14 11:22:08.680/2968.612 Oracle Coherence GE 3.5.2/463 <Error> (thread=Proxy:ExtendTcpProxyService:TcpAcceptor, member=11): An exception occurred while decoding a Message for Service=Proxy:ExtendTcpProxyService:TcpAcceptor received from: TcpConnection(Id=null, Open=true, LocalAddress=10.56.59.136:9992, RemoteAddress=10.56.59.137:60005): java.lang.ClassCastException: com.tangosol.io.pof.PortableException cannot be cast to com.tangosol.util.UUID
    at com.tangosol.coherence.component.util.daemon.queueProcessor.service.Peer$MessageFactory$OpenConnectionRequest.readExternal(Peer.CDB:6)
    at com.tangosol.coherence.component.net.extend.Codec.decode(Codec.CDB:29)
    at com.tangosol.coherence.component.util.daemon.queueProcessor.service.Peer.decodeMessage(Peer.CDB:25)
    at com.tangosol.coherence.component.util.daemon.queueProcessor.service.Peer.onNotify(Peer.CDB:47)
    at com.tangosol.coherence.component.util.Daemon.run(Daemon.CDB:42)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

    I have a similar issue. The landscape is as follows: .NET client feeds the proxy, proxy feeds the grid. The java side has some Invocation code as well. No custom objects - just strings are passed around and cached.
    Now here is the issue. If I disable POF on the java side, all the java code runs including the invocations services. But if I enable the POF on the proxy to allow .NET to connect, it all goes to hell. It all wants to be POF enabled and my invocation service agent is raising an exception about "*unknown user type*". Its an agent, what does it want with POF.
    My .NET code is also only caching a string object so i don't understand why custom POF is needed. Is there any way to get around all this without using POF on the java or .net side??

  • Simple client - proxy - server toy program

    Hi.
    I haven't done many cs courses yet, lately i am reading on some introduction to network programming, and i thought i should create a simple toy program to test a bit.
    Essentially i'd like to keep the communication between client and server using bytes, so i'll but input/output streams. At the same time, i'd like to have the proxy and server and client hosted on the same pc. So, i'll be using local IP's like 127.xx.xx.xx
    Client part:
    1. open a socket to connect to proxy
    2. get input and output streams
    3. use loop to write random data to output stream, and read feedbacks from inputstream.
    Proxy Part
    1. opens a server soc to listen to client
    2. opens a soc to connect to server
    3. create 2 service objects to take care of IO, one for upstream(to server) and other for downstream
    4. display and verify content.
    Server Part:
    1. open a server socket to listen to connections
    2. create a service object to take care of stream IO
    3. display IO streams to counter verify with client IO
    Questions:
    1. When constructing a socket for client side, i should be including proxy IP and proxy listened_port as parameters right?
    if I try to put in a local ip such as 127.99.99.99, and port number 5999. At the same time i set my proxy port_to_listen_to as 5999
    how will I know which address represents my proxy?
    Will any random local IP work?
    Will a thread be more appropriate since i am using threads in proxy and server?
    2. My understanding of proxy is that it is partly a server, and partly a client. But i am not sure if i am right to create 2 threads to handle upstream and downstream operations independently. I have tried to stay out of global/static variable so that i can avoid synchronization part.
    3. As for the server side. i have similar issues regarding the IP address problems mentioned above.
    Can some one help me sort out my concepts?

    1. When constructing a socket for client side, i should be including proxy IP and proxy listened_port as parameters right?Yes.
    if I try to put in a local ip such as 127.99.99.99, and port number 5999. At the same time i set my proxy port_to_listen_to as 5999
    how will I know which address represents my proxy?That address represents your proxy.
    Will any random local IP work?127.0.0.* will work. I don' t know about the others like 127.99.99.99.
    Will a thread be more appropriate since i am using threads in proxy and server?Only if you have multiple connections in the client at the same time, or if the client's input and output are unco-ordinated. From your description it sounds like you are writing requests and reading responses, which you can do serially without threads.
    2. My understanding of proxy is that it is partly a server, and partly a client. But i am not sure if i am right to create 2 threads to handle upstream and downstream operations independently.You are right.
    3. As for the server side. i have similar issues regarding the IP address problems mentioned above.I don't know exactly what you mean by 'issues' or 'problems'. You can run the whole setup using 127.0.0.1, or 'localhost', with one listening port for the proxy and another for the server.

  • Disabling Sleep Proxy Server

    # This was posted under wrong area so re-posting here as suggested
    I run a large University Network with a good 3000 pcs being a in a separate residential network.
    On this network there are obviously a fair few macs and recently some have started doing weird things involving using other peoples ip addresses.
    From my googling and research I find that they always use other macs ips and this is because they are acting as a Sleep Proxy Server.
    Now these macs are non timecapsle macs and from what I understand the proxy server enabled because they once shared there network connection to there bluetooth/wifi.
    It remains running even after the internet connection sharing is switched off.
    What I need to know is how to turn off the Sleep Proxy Server on the affect macs which are always quite new 10.6 ones.
    Why?
    Well we use a lot of security systems to detect viruses and hacking attempts and pcs using non dhcp assigned ips which show up in our ARP tables is getting alot of people removed from the network. It is also making detecting the real threats increasingly difficult.
    Please let me know what I need to do to switch this off on the macs that are doing it.
    If you know how to disable on time capsules as well would be appreciated.
    regards
    Chris
    ps. Sorry for silly alias, can't be bother to change at this point.

    Anush,
    It's not possible with JAVA nor any other language! Because, the proxy server is meant for
    restricting the access to the resources and it's functionality can't be altered by a JAVA
    program.
    Since, even if u right a program in JAVA using java.net package to access the site [may
    be porno...], still the request has to go out and reach the internet resource, only thru' the
    same proxy server and hence it's not at all possible.
    Only if the 'admin' of the proxy server grands rights to the user nothing else can be done.
    -RK.

  • OSB: Configuring Proxy Service

    Hi,
    As I understand the "Proxy service" invokes the "Business service".
    Therefore when I configure the "ProxyService" there should be a "Create From Existing Service" section in the "General Configuration".
    But in my workbench I dont see the "Create From Existing Service" section.
    There is no way I can link the Proxy and the Business services.
    Any idea why that section is missing in my workbench and how to resolve it?
    Regards,
    Deepak

    Hi Deepak,
    Good catch. I never observed this specific thing through the Workbench. Yes through the workbench this options seems to be unavailable.
    You can invoke the business service via the Proxy Service by creating a route node and then selecting the business service in the route node configuration.
    this way your proxy service can invoke the business service.
    This might not be the solution you are looking for, but still wanted to let you know that it is not a must to use the "Create From Existing Service" option. The ""Create From Existing Service" would in turn also do the same thing (marked in bold). You can check this out using the sbconsole. :)
    Hope this helps.
    Thanks,
    Patrick

  • Proxy auto-config (PAC) impacts ssh, scp, sftp

    Dear all,
    I have this problem I am trying to find leads on how to understand and eventually solve it.
    I am doing a lot of development under Unix. I'm spending most of my time at work on X11 (XQuartz) logged in on remote Unix servers using all "S" versions of standard protocols.  I'm under Snow Leopard because Lion is no good to my workflow (sorry to say this).
    Since my employer has contracted an external company to filter all outgoing HTTPS traffic - and has updated the legacy proxy PAC file accordingly - I encounter huge latency problems with my ssh, scp and sftp traffic with my remote Unix servers : all "S" protocols are routed through the external company HTTPS filter.
    I have created one Network Location (network sys prefs) that uses "Automatic Proxy Configuration" to point to the PAC file server (a).
    I have create another Network Location that activates a distinct proxy setting for HTTP and the same for HTTPS protocols. I've set up as Web Proxy server the one defined as PROXY  in the PAC file (b).
    Using (a) Network preference, all my ssh and scp traffic initiated under X11 is slow as a drag (10kb/s on a 100baseT full duplex to the server in the same building) because it gets piped through the external https traffic filter.
    Using (b) Network preference, no problem at all with ssh and scp, and Safari can browse both http and https sites as per company rules.
    My question is how can this setting of Network preference - combined with a PAC file - can influence a traffic that is secured through ssl but is not HTTP nor HTTPS ! 
    I am looking for some documentation that would help me understand how Proxy auto-config is implemented in the network layer and if there are any recommendations I can do to my network team to fix their PAC file, perhaps, to restrict the proxy configuration to only http and https.
    Any lead will help.
    Thanks,
    Thierry
    The PAC file (stripped of restricted info). Note: The remote servers I'm working on are in the 10/24 IP range and a segment of a Class B my company owns.
    function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
              var proxy = "PROXY XXX.YYY.ZZZ.1:80; PROXY XXX.YYY.ZZZ.2:80" ;
    if (
              shExpMatch(host, "10.*.*.*")  ||
              shExpMatch(host, "192.168.*.*")
              return "DIRECT";
    else
              return proxy;

    Ooops. Sorry, I meant "10/8", not "10/24" IP range.

  • CFolders-Proxy Setting

    Hi,
    From what I understand, the proxy setting and port number information within the Network settings tab,is the proxy used by the WAS to communicate with the internet. Through what transaction would I find if the WAS uses a proxy and if so its details?
    regards,

    Hi,
    Yes, you are absolutely correct..Web As uses the proxy details which are maintained at the network tab at Cfolders administration page for communicating with the internet (this is only if you are configuring cProject suite) . As far i know there is no exact transaction to check this..but you can check by accessing the application..example after you maintained the port Https at the network tab in the Cfolders adminstration page ..you should be able to access the application by using the HTTPS port...ofcourse for this you need to activate the HTTPS in your system initially..
    Regards
    Seshu

  • WSA 6.0 Proxy errors.

    Has anyone ran into problems with WCCP after upgrading to 6.0? Throughout the day, the WCCP router will lose the web cache and it will come back a few mins. later.

    I have been detached a little from the support ticket, but from what I understand, the proxy is constantly restarting because of a bug in the IronPort Data Security feature. We have ran into other issues with 6.0 and were told by support to wait for another box to be shipped out and run the 5.6.4 rev.
    Hi Jesse,
    Okay but if there isn't a support request for the WCCP issue on version 6, please do file one if you have time, because this is the exact same issue I ran into and I would like to gather more information about customers running into this..

  • Working with footage from Canon 5D Mark ii

    Hi
    I have recently started working with video taken on a Canon 5D Mark ii.
    Should I always convert all my footage into Apple Pro Res 422 (HQ) when I want to edit HD 1920x1080 footage?
    Also I have just finished a project not knowing that this might have to be done, and when I added colour correction the exported quick time conversion looked terrible.
    Is there any way to save this edit, or should I just convert the origional footage and start again?!
    Thanks

    This is a topic that gets discussed a lot, and i'm curious if anyone has any more insight into it. From what i understand, ProRes HQ is 10-bit codec, while normal ProRes is 8-bit. The footage coming off of your h.264 camera is in 8-bit space, so if you encode it to 10-bit, you're just getting filling in a bunch of extra space. it's like building a 3-car garage for your motorcycle.
    One of the reasons the files get so much larger going from H.264 to APR is that H.264 is an inter-frame codec, meaning that it uses information from more than one frame and evaluates the changes from frame to frame to calculate what any individual frame should look like. This means you don't need to store as much raw data for each frame, but it's more processing intensive to calculate the image from what's there. Final cut doesn't like to do this kind of calculation, at least in its current incarnation. So you convert it to APR 422, which is an Intra-frame codec, which stores all of the information for each frame individually in one place, even if it's a relatively unchanging shot. this means a lot more raw data, but it also means final cut can just look in one place for each frame and not have to figure out how to build it out of the surrounding frames. larger files, but easier on the program.
    premiere is supposedly kicking *** right now with dealing with this kind of stuff. and they are integrating h.264 specific chipsets in some of the newer computers, so it may become less of an issue in the future. from what i understand anyway.
    anyway. if anyone has any other shades of clarification about what's going on with the technical sides of that stuff, i'm trying to get more clear myself.

  • Working with PCTX from Endurance

    Hi,
    I would appreciate some help from anyone who have work on using Labview with PCTX from Endurance.com  
    http://www.endurance-rc.com/pctx.php
    I am working on using a joystick instead of my JR controller to control my aerial vehicle.  Based on the sample codes provided in the website, I have yet to understand how the codes work.
    Thanks and regards

    This is a topic that gets discussed a lot, and i'm curious if anyone has any more insight into it. From what i understand, ProRes HQ is 10-bit codec, while normal ProRes is 8-bit. The footage coming off of your h.264 camera is in 8-bit space, so if you encode it to 10-bit, you're just getting filling in a bunch of extra space. it's like building a 3-car garage for your motorcycle.
    One of the reasons the files get so much larger going from H.264 to APR is that H.264 is an inter-frame codec, meaning that it uses information from more than one frame and evaluates the changes from frame to frame to calculate what any individual frame should look like. This means you don't need to store as much raw data for each frame, but it's more processing intensive to calculate the image from what's there. Final cut doesn't like to do this kind of calculation, at least in its current incarnation. So you convert it to APR 422, which is an Intra-frame codec, which stores all of the information for each frame individually in one place, even if it's a relatively unchanging shot. this means a lot more raw data, but it also means final cut can just look in one place for each frame and not have to figure out how to build it out of the surrounding frames. larger files, but easier on the program.
    premiere is supposedly kicking *** right now with dealing with this kind of stuff. and they are integrating h.264 specific chipsets in some of the newer computers, so it may become less of an issue in the future. from what i understand anyway.
    anyway. if anyone has any other shades of clarification about what's going on with the technical sides of that stuff, i'm trying to get more clear myself.

  • CREATING A RECORDSET ERROR "UNIDENTIFED ERROR HAS OCURRED

    I am trying to create a record set which is for a mysql database containing images and details about the images.
    When using the  Create RecordsSet in Dreamweaver CS4  I get this error whenever I include the filed which holds the image data.
    Mysql Database is as follows
    CREATE  TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `phpriot_demo`.`images` (
      `image_id` BIGINT(20) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
      `filename` VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL ,
      `mime_type` VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL ,
      `file_size` INT(11) NOT NULL ,
      `file_data` LONGBLOB NOT NULL ,
      PRIMARY KEY (`image_id`) ,
      UNIQUE INDEX `image_id` (`image_id` ASC) ,
      INDEX `filename` (`filename` ASC) )
    ENGINE = MyISAM
    AUTO_INCREMENT = 2
    DEFAULT CHARACTER SET = latin1
    It doesn't throw up an error with any of the other fields?  Is there something I am doing wrong?

    Horsemad Gilly wrote:
    I had looked at the arguments and had gone with this option but cant get the images to display back in the webpage,  I am having problems in understanding the proxy script correct to enable the image to show,
    I agree with Murray that storing images in a database is a bad idea, but if you really want to do it, you can find instructions here: http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Upload_images_to_a_MySQL_database__PHP_-16609.html. Dreamweaver doesn't handle file uploads automatically, so you need to edit the script manually.
    You can also learn how to display an image using a proxy script in this article: http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Display_an_image_stored_in_a_database__PHP_-16637.html.

  • Load Balancing of 2-Tiered vs 3-Tiered Clustering

    Hi,
              I was looking at the cluster diagrams on the clustering page:
              http://www.weblogic.com/docs60/cluster/index.html
              And I can't help notice a slight descrepency between the diagram of a 2-Tier
              cluster (WL web cluster + WL app cluster) vs.a 3-Tier cluster (web
              proxy-plugin + WL web cluster + WL app cluster).
              In the 2-Tier diagram, the arrows going from the web nodes to the app nodes
              converges to a single point, indicating that there's load balancing of
              servlet calls to ejbs.
              In the 3-Tier diagram, the arrows from each web node point directly to an
              app node, which seems to indicate that there is a static one-to-one
              relationship, hence no load-balancing. Below the 3-Tier diagram, one of the
              described limitations of using standalone web server and proxy plug-ins is:
              a.. Limited Load Balancing Options: When you use proxy plug-ins or the
              HttpClusterServlet to access clustered servlets, the load balancing
              algorithm is limited to a simple round-robin strategy.
              I believe this is describe load balancing between the fire-wall and the
              proxy web servers. But what about the load balancing between the WL web
              servers and the app servers? Does it exist, or does one web server always
              assigned to one app server?
              Gene Chuang
              Join Kiko.com!
              

    Currently, we only support clusters within the same subnet, as most routers
              can't handle multicast traffic. We are considering designs to relax this
              restriction in a future release.
              -Don
              Cameron Purdy wrote:
              > > 3) In WLAS6.0, you can specify how to pick the secondary server. Most
              > > important of all, pick a secondary server which is on the different
              > physical
              > > box than primary.
              >
              > ... and if you are using two different physical networks, make sure it is on
              > the other physical network. Any hints on how to do that?
              >
              > --
              > Cameron Purdy
              > Tangosol, Inc.
              > http://www.tangosol.com
              > +1.617.623.5782
              > WebLogic Consulting Available
              >
              > "Wei Guan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
              > news:[email protected]...
              > > Here is my understanding:
              > > 1) Proxy will route new sessions based on round-robins. Old sessions will
              > > route to the primary server.
              > > 2) Primary server will pick the secondary server.
              > > 3) In WLAS6.0, you can specify how to pick the secondary server. Most
              > > important of all, pick a secondary server which is on the different
              > physical
              > > box than primary.
              > >
              > >
              > > --
              > > Hope it helps.
              > >
              > > Cheers - Wei
              > >
              > >
              > > "Cameron Purdy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
              > > news:[email protected]...
              > > > Is it true that the proxy can only use round-robin to load-balance the
              > WL
              > > > cluster? I understand that, once selected for a session, the proxy will
              > > > always route requests to the primary server specified in the cookie or
              > URL
              > > > (or secondary), but in the case that no primary or secondary has been
              > > > assigned, can the proxy pick a destination server (which I assume
              > becomes
              > > > the primary) using an algorithm such as "random" (which is theoretically
              > > > superior to round-robin over time)? Also, who picks the secondary
              > server?
              > > > Is it the primary or the proxy?
              > > >
              > > > --
              > > > Cameron Purdy
              > > > Tangosol, Inc.
              > > > http://www.tangosol.com
              > > > +1.617.623.5782
              > > > WebLogic Consulting Available
              > > >
              > > >
              > > > "Don Ferguson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
              > > > news:[email protected]...
              > > > > Hi, comments in line.
              > > > >
              > > > > Gene Chuang wrote:
              > > > > >
              > > > > > Hi,
              > > > > >
              > > > > > I was looking at the cluster diagrams on the clustering page:
              > > > > >
              > > > > > http://www.weblogic.com/docs60/cluster/index.html
              > > > > >
              > > > > > And I can't help notice a slight descrepency between the diagram of
              > a
              > > > 2-Tier
              > > > > > cluster (WL web cluster + WL app cluster) vs.a 3-Tier cluster (web
              > > > > > proxy-plugin + WL web cluster + WL app cluster).
              > > > > >
              > > > > > In the 2-Tier diagram, the arrows going from the web nodes to the
              > app
              > > > nodes
              > > > > > converges to a single point, indicating that there's load balancing
              > of
              > > > > > servlet calls to ejbs.
              > > > > >
              > > > > > In the 3-Tier diagram, the arrows from each web node point directly
              > to
              > > > an
              > > > > > app node, which seems to indicate that there is a static one-to-one
              > > > > > relationship, hence no load-balancing.
              > > > >
              > > > > This is just an artifact of the drawing, not of the architecture. The
              > > > same
              > > > > load balancing would be performed between the web and app tiers
              > > regardless
              > > > > of whether or not there is a front end web server.
              > > > >
              > > > > > Below the 3-Tier diagram, one of the
              > > > > > described limitations of using standalone web server and proxy
              > > plug-ins
              > > > is:
              > > > > >
              > > > > > a.. Limited Load Balancing Options: When you use proxy plug-ins or
              > the
              > > > > > HttpClusterServlet to access clustered servlets, the load balancing
              > > > > > algorithm is limited to a simple round-robin strategy.
              > > > > >
              > > > > > I believe this is describe load balancing between the fire-wall and
              > > the
              > > > > > proxy web servers. But what about the load balancing between the WL
              > > web
              > > > > > servers and the app servers? Does it exist, or does one web server
              > > > always
              > > > > > assigned to one app server?
              > > > >
              > > > > This is not describing the load balancing between the firewall and the
              > > > > proxy web servers; we do not control of how that is performed. It is
              > > > > describing the load balancing between the proxy servers and the web
              > > tier.
              > > > > The diagram should really show that more clearly, as was done in the
              > > > 2-tier
              > > > > example.
              > > > >
              > > > > -Don
              > > > >
              > > > > >
              > > > > > --
              > > > > > Gene Chuang
              > > > > > Join Kiko.com!
              > > >
              > > >
              > >
              > >
              

  • Updated itunes now can't access store

    Hi, I updated to iTunes 8.2 yesterday & have just tried to access the store which is not happening. I managed to access the home page once. There were no messages to say there is a problem. I'm not very good at computers but hopefully have followed instructions so far.
    I ran a diagnostic test on network connectivity which told me the secure link to the store failed.
    I followed those directions & still no joy. I am currently using Google Chrome.
    Here are the stats.
    Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
    INTEL_ D845GBV_
    iTunes 8.2.0.23
    QuickTime 7.6.2
    FairPlay 1.4.10
    iPod Updater Library 8.1d19
    CD Driver 2.1.0.1
    CD Driver DLL 2.1.1.1
    Apple Mobile Device 2.5.1.3
    Apple Mobile Device Driver not found.
    Bonjour 1.0.6.2 (118.5)
    iTunes Serial Number 714B9EE2A143A6CF
    Current user is an administrator.
    The current local date and time is 2009-06-21 10:32:52.
    iTunes is not running in safe mode.
    Video Display Information
    Intel(R) 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller
    ** External Plug-ins Information **
    No external plug-ins installed.
    ** Network Connectivity Tests **
    Network Adapter Information
    Adapter Name: {D8A5D7B6-9F6F-405F-9345-635C4560A98E}
    Description: Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Network Connection - Packet Scheduler Miniport
    IP Address: 10.16.145.226
    Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.252
    Default Gateway: 10.16.145.225
    DHCP Enabled: No
    DHCP Server: 192.168.0.1
    Lease Obtained: Thu Jan 01 08:00:00 1970
    Lease Expires: Thu Jan 01 08:00:00 1970
    DNS Servers: 61.88.88.88
    61.88.88.88
    Active Connection: LAN Connection
    Connected: Yes
    Online: Yes
    Using Modem: No
    Using LAN: Yes
    Using Proxy: Yes
    HTTP Proxy: 10.16.145.225:9877
    HTTPS Proxy: 10.16.145.225:9877
    SSL 3.0 Support: Enabled
    TLS 1.0 Support: Enabled
    Firewall Information
    Windows Firewall is on.
    iTunes is enabled in Windows Firewall.
    Connection attempt to Apple web site was unsuccessful.
    An unknown error occurred (-28).
    Connection attempt to iTunes Store was unsuccessful.
    An unknown error occurred (-28).
    Secure connection attempt to iTunes Store was unsuccessful.
    An unknown error occurred (-28).
    Secure connection attempt to iPhone activation server unsuccessful.
    An unknown error occurred (-28).
    Last successful store access was 2009-06-21 10:18:56.
    Thankyou.

    Thanks Katrina.
    I went into Internet options - connections - LAN settings and unticked the Proxy server button. I hope that's what you meant.
    Tried itunes & it worked.
    For interest sake I went back & ticked it again & itunes still worked but probably a bit slower.
    I don't really understand what Proxy server is but would like to know if it's better to have it on or off.
    It's been an hour & a half since I last tried the store(when it wasn't working) . Is it possible it was down for a while?

  • Having trouble removing traits from a media element

    I am having difficulty removing a trait from a subclass of the LightweightVideoElement.  Depending on the type of video playing through the netstream, I want to remove the seek trait to prevent seeking with the chrome scrub bar.
    My problem is that when I remove the trait from the element the hasTrait method is still returning true.  To demonstrate I add a listener in my element's constructor like so:
    addEventListener(MediaElementEvent.TRAIT_REMOVE,announceTraitRemoved);
    And my function is:
    private function announceTraitRemoved(e:MediaElementEvent):void
                trace("Element --> announceTraitRemoved --> TRAIT REMOVED: "+e.traitType + " so hasTrait: "+hasTrait(e.traitType));
    The output of the function after calling removeTrait(MediaTraitType.SEEK) is:
    Element --> announceTraitRemoved --> TRAIT REMOVED: seek so hasTrait: true
    It never returns hasTrait: false for the seek trait.
    This is problematic because the chrome package ScrubBar determines if the scrubber is enabled by listening to this event in a similar fashion and using the hasTrait method, so I cannot figure out how to disable the scrub bar.
    What am I doing wrong?  If it matters, I am using 1.0gm.
    Thanks.

    Okay that makes sense.  I didn't realize the event was fired ahead of time because some of the traits were returning false for the function... but I guess it just happened to be a timing thing from being removed and added and such.
    For this case, the custom netstream "knows" if seeking is possible and skips the actual seeking part of the seek call and only dispatches events if seeking is not allowed, so I am not actually worried about the SeekTrait exactly.  I want to convey to the user that the video cannot be seeked through by "greying" out the scrubber.
    From what I understand the proxy element would just stop the seek event from hitting the netstream and would not trigger the ScrubBar to grey out the scrubber.
    How does one signal to the ScrubBar that the scrubber should be disabled?  This is the check that the chrome package ScrubBar uses when traits are added or removed:
    scrubber.enabled = media ? media.hasTrait(MediaTraitType.SEEK) : false;
    Do I have to remove the seek trait and then toggle another trait?

Maybe you are looking for