Xcompmgr + Docky = leaving artifacts

I have an integrated Intel card. My xorg.conf is done automatically through HAL.
$ lspci | grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
When I run Steam or VLC for some reasons there are artifacts near Docky or the top GNOME panel. Is there any way to fix this?

Thank you both for the support, I greatly appreciate it! Adobe hasn't been super helpful sadly.
Any suggestions on trying to decipher the driver/hardware issue? I haven't used PC in quite some time, but made the switch after using premiere and davinci on an amazing machine with cuda.
I ran the PCMark 7 and nothing seemed out of the ordinary, she ran about 60-70* C I believe. I can post that information if necessary.
These are my current quadro and CUDA driver for Win 7
and
If there are some 'usual' troubleshooting steps I shoudl take, please do let me know. Or if you can point me in the right direction of what to research I don't mind doing the leg work. I just want to get this working again. . . Unstable machines are just terrible!
Thanks again all!

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Export to .mov leaving artifacts everywhere...

I have made a simple animation with music, 800ish frames, no actionscript, using CS4
When I export it as a Quicktime Mov it breaks up and leaves artifacts everywhere,
I read that the spec of your mac can affect the export but I'm working on a mac pro with 2 x 2.26 GHz Quad core Xeon and 16GB Ram so I very much doubt its that.
The only other forums I've seen (working) answers on are ones where you save the video and audio separately and rebuild it in after effects or something similar but I do not have that software (and surely you should'nt have to do all that).
I need to import the movie into iMovie to add to another piece of film.
Any Suggestions??
Thanks

I tried everything, including all the other sites threads on this subject. (there are many). Changing the frame rate (nope) - Setting "Stop Exporting" and enter a time rather than "When last Frame is Reached" (nope) - Change the frame rate of the entire movie (nope) - Changing quality (nope) - and countless other variations in the output settings. But finally, because I was working on several files at the same time, one file worked - and it was because there was a animation of a starburst that was animated across the entire movie. I believe this forces all frames to render, refreshing every frame. (Set "Keyframes to "All") So try adding a simple element like a starburst and animate (360 rotation in the center of the frame) across the entire movie, you can hide it on a lower layer. This worked for me, nothing else did. It must have something to do with the way flash renders the tweens. Give it a shot! Good luck!

Open quicktime file to play movie and mac hangs and leaves artifacts (screen smear) on screen mac slows down

I recently completed a clean install of snow leopard and added some RAM to my MAC
when I open a QuickTime file... my MAC slows down, I get the rainbow pin wheel and screens and menus that I try to access start to "smear"... leave behind artifacts
ultimately the movies flutter and don't play properly, and I have to restart my MAC to reset my desktop
I suspect it may be related to my RAM because I've never had this issue previously although it only seems to occur when I use QuickTime
... also I installed "flip for mac"
I purchased the RAM from OWC
thoughts?

The codec info should have been listed before the comma that precedes 640x360. Seems to be a bug in the recent versions of QT 7. If you have QT Pro you can still find the codec name by opening Movie Properties and checking the video format that way. Anyway, since Perian cant play it I suspect you are out of luck in MacOS x. Not all avi decompressors have been ported to OS X. It may be that the compressor is one of the old Indeo codecs and those definitely will not work in X. They will work in the Classic environment but a lot of you folks have given up on Classic. Just in case here is a link to the Indeo codecs for Classic: Indeo codecs for Classic
Have you tried playing it in VLC. If it is not an Indeo file VLC may play it.
The Mac version of WMP doesn't play avi or mpeg files -- mostly it plays wmv or asf files and not even the most recent versions of those formats.

Flash Quicktime Export leaves artifacts

I have a simple frame per frame based animation of graphical objects with audio. When I export it as Quicktime Movie I always get artifacts from moving objects left behind. For example a simple blue circle on white ground, leaves parts of the circle behind and parts of the background inside the circle.
I have tried every possible option (compressed as Animation, H264, uncompressed, double framerate etc.) in Flash Mac CS4 and its always the same problem. Now I thought this bug would be fixed in Mac CS5 or CS 5.5 but no, its still the same.
Anyone else having that problem?

Alright so I figured out what happens. I currently work with the CS5 version of flash and when you go to export a movie using quicktime, quicktime has settings like this:
click the quick time settings button and you get this:
you may want to change the size for whatever purpose, but that's not what causes a problem. You want to click the settings option to get this:
Alright here is the technical part of the explanation: These are Quicktime's Settings, NOT Flash CS5's. If your frame rate doesn't match the frame rate for the motion part of this window you can/will have artifacts in your video in quicktime. This is NOT a bug. It makes sense that your video may have artifacts because it is glitching with the difference in frame rate. I know this is super hard to figure out what happened, but it works. All you have to do is change these settings to match your frame rate, or you can change your initial frame rate in the original animation in Flash.

Artifacts in gif animation

I'm experiencing an issue with artifacts in gif animation and I hope the collective brain trust in here can help. I've attached the file so you can see what I'm talking about. I've loaded the file into Dreamweaver to run as the header background and when I preview the page in IE the aircraft leave artifacts behind at every frame and the text looks torn as well. When I preview the same page in Firefox it looks crisp.
I created the aircraft and their contrails as four separate layers and linked them prior to starting the animation process. The text is its own layer as well. Thinking the linking might be an issue, I also flattened the airfraft layers into one and reaccomplished the animation but go the same result.
I'm previewing the images in Firefox version 3.5.3 and IE 8.0.6001. The animation itself is 60 frames long each with a duration of .01. The file was "saved as web device" from Photoshop as a .gif 64 dithered (dithered 88%) and then inserted into the page I'm working on through Dreamweaver.
Anyone out there have a suggestion as to how I can clean this image up and make it look as good on IE as it does on Firefox?

Marian & Mylenium,
Thanks for the information. I tried to just animate the aircraft and while the artifact issue was solved, the animation simply wasn't smooth enough for my liking. I agree the SWF option is the way to go but due to IT restrictions, that software isn't readily available to the end users. I use Preimere Pro too so creating the files would be a breeze but pointless to do so if the file won't launch. I appreciate you both taking the time to not only answer the question but to explain why going the route I was going wasn't the best option. Cheers!
Erik

Windows 7 x64 on 2009 MB, step-by-step instructions and solutions

ok, after spending days on this with about 10+ clean installs on 2 different machines and searching forums about various problems, i'm going to go step by step in a flow-chart like manner to describe the steps and various pitfalls in getting windows 7 ultimate 64 bit installed correctly on a macbook (late 2009)...most of this i didn't figure out on my own, this is a compilation of solutions found by others. i'll try and link or credit anyone i can, but honestly can't remember where i saw all of this. part of this is to share my days of frustration to try and save someone some time. also, in case i have to do this again, i want a record of it so i don't have to start from scratch next time.
i don't have everything working perfectly, but i have wireless and sound, but not sure if all the drivers are up to date. i'm still working on the headphone issue, i don't have sound yet with headphones, but i got the speakers to work.
i'm going to preface this by saying that windows 7 is a horrible piece of software, i'm only helping a friend do it because she's an architect and needs autocad, but she wants a mac for daily use. also, i'm doing this from a spanish install of windows 7 (here in south america), so it's a pain to translate this cruddy convoluted OS into english as i'm not familiar with windows 7 anyway, so i'll do my best. i'm not a pc expert. also going to say that the windows 7 x86 and x64 installs i've done on a couple macbook pro 15's seems to work much better (full trackpad functionality, expose works) and without as many problems...i don't know why it doesn't seem to work as well in x64 on the macbook, i'm still investigating.
also, i want to say that a fresh (first-time) bootcamp partition with windows install after a clean mac os x install seems to produce the best results. i say this because i wasn't happy with all the hacks in my first couple attemtps, so i erased the bootcamp partitions and re-created them to re-install windows 7 again. but i started experiencing some peculiarities that never happened in the first install after a clean Mac OS X install. it's as if the computer leaves artifacts from previous installs and acts funny. also, reboots and start-up times seem to be slower now than when it was a first-time fresh install. anyway, i'll try and outline all the weirdness here, indicated by asterisks *
SO, HERE GOES:
1) Go to Bootcamp Utility > Create Bootcamp partition
2) Afterwards, this should take you to a restart into the windows install dvd....if install dvd boots fine, skip to step 3
** if you get a gray screen (happened to me after subsequent re-install attempts), you have to power off and reboot holding down "C" key to boot from the dvd...or you can hold down alt/opt key to get the icons of bootable volumes, at this point it should be mac os x and the windows dvd. the point is, force it to boot from the dvd if it hangs on re-start.
3) Windows install should start. Select language, etc....You should then get to a screen listing all the partitions (should be 3 of them). Choose the Bootcamp partition and format (erase) it to proceed with the install.
4) Windows should start installing all the files and will reboot a couple times, here's where things get weird possibly. On the first attempt at installing Windows 7, the install went smoothly on restart.
** some of you might get a blinking cursor and a black screen that goes on forever. Supposedly this is a bug in Windows 7, having to do with video drivers or something. I don't understand because my first install attempt, it rebooted just fine and the installation continued.
anyway, what you have to do here if you get the forever-black screen is power down the machine with the power button and restart holding the alt/option key. this time when you get the bootable volumes on the gray screen, choose the Windows partition, which will now appear. DON'T boot up from the DVD. upon restart into Windows, you should be back in the installation process and it will attempt to finish the install here.
it might be my imagination, but once i had to reboot into the dvd here to actually finish the install. technically Windows is not finished installing at this step, you just have to figure out how to get past the black screen to finish the install. try both.
5) Windows should go back to where it left off before the restart, then finish the install.....and restart AGAIN. On my first attempt, the restart went smoothly and started the "first time user" process...
** some of you will get the black screen YET AGAIN, this happened to me on my subsequent attempts at re-installing Windows. again, you need to power off and start up holding the alt/option key, choose the Windows partition and it should take you to the "first time user configuration" process....since at this point, windows is indeed installed.
6) Here you will fill out all your information, product key, etc...and get into Windows. Here you will have some other problems.
Problem #1: you have no drivers to run Windows on your Mac, so you will need to install Bootcamp in windows from your Mac OS X install dvd
Problem #2: you have no "right click", because you don't have drivers, so you might not be able to eject the Windows dvd to put in the Mac dvd
Solutions: you can't control-click or right click, BUT YOU CAN hover over the DVD drive ( "D:" in your computer, my PC or whatever it's called in english) and see if there's an "eject disc" option.
for some reason, my Windows dvd was spinning and not being recognized, so i just rebooted (alt/option) into Mac OS X and ejected the disc there. the point is, you need to eject the Windows disc and put in the Mac OS X install disc to access Bootcamp for Windows.
7) Reboot into Windows (if you had to boot into Mac to eject the disc). Insert Mac OS X install disc. Navigate to BootCamp setup.exe and run it.
** the first time i did this, it ran no problem. but in subsequent attempts, it gave me the "x64 not supported by this computer" message that everyone seems to encounter. there is a bypass for this outlined here:
http://www.techulous.com/hardware/how-to-apple-boot-camp-64-bit-for-windows-7-on -unsupported-macs.html
8) Ok, so now you should have Bootcamp 3.0 installed. Now you need to update it with Bootcamp 3.1 update. Download it here and run it. This is required for 64 bit support, I believe this is the link:
http://support.apple.com/kb/dl979
** hopefully you don't have problems, i didn't, so you might have to search the forums since i can't anticipate what might happen here, it worked for me every time.
9) Ok, i think it might reboot after the update install. Now you have Bootcamp installed and most of the drivers you need, however not everything works. Some of the drivers will be out of date.
Problem #1: you may or may not have updated nvidia drivers. mine are ok, but check nvidia website if you have doubts. most of their drivers are for PC hardware, however, so the ones on the bootcamp disk and update should be fine.
Problem #2: almost everyone has wi-fi connectivity problems. it has to do with the wrong/outdated broadcom drivers from bootcamp. i will outline how i got it to work (based on someone else's solution i found in some forum or other).
Problem #3: almost everyone is having sound issues. i'll explain what i did. i still have no sound coming out of the headphone jack, i'm working on that next. but i have speaker sound and no red light coming out of the headphone jack.
** first of all, you should probably download firefox from internet explorer in windows, then update adobe flash, it's a pain....i used another computer to download the drivers, then transfered them by USB drive, but you can do it however u want.
Solution to wi-fi: ok, not sure where i got this information, but i downloaded HP drivers in a file called "sp45524.exe"....here's the link:
http://www.wireless-driver.com/download/hp/hp-broadcom-wireless-lan-windows7-dri ver-v560188.htm
apparently the broadcom drivers in Bootcamp 3.0 and 3.1 update won't install on Windows 7 x64 for some reason, lot of people are getting "code 10".
what i did is this:
9a) run the .exe file, it will create a folder called SWSetup\SP45524 that will house the drivers. there's a setup file in that folder, i didn't try it. perhaps it will install from there, but everything i read suggested a different step. ** if you run the set up file, you may have to run as administrator, or use the "troubleshoot compatibility" trick to get it to work.
9b) Go to Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Device Manager > Network adapters
you should uninstall or deactivate any drivers you have. if it's not showing any wi-fi adapter, right click and "check for new hardware" (not sure how it's translated into english from spanish)....you should have an unknown device pop up with the yellow icon and exclamation mark. double click on that, assign it as a network adapter.
when you get to the driver tabs, you can install it from there. this is where it gets tricky. click "install driver", "check drivers on this computer", "choose from a list of drivers on this computer", "use disc", and in the dialogue box ("install from disc" that says "copy manufacturers files from", navigate to the C: SWSetup|SP45524 folder and click until you can accept. this will load up a different list of drivers.
(sorry, i'm translating the Windows from spanish to english, and i'm not familiar with exactly what they say in english, so you'll just have to use your imagination)
you should now have a small list of drivers. personally, i chose the first one on the list "Wi-Fi adapter Broadcom 43224AG 802.11a/b/g/draft-n", but the second one worked also. again, i'm doing this on a late 2009 white macbook (6.1) and it works. according to the date of the driver, it seems like it might not even be the most current and might be older than the one that's on the MAC OS X install disc, but none of the ones on the disc work. this one does. (thanks to whoever found this out, i can't find the original link of the post with this driver reference).
Solutions to sound: ok, there are multiple posts on this, everything from updating realtek to sigmatel...personally what worked for me was to download the most current Cirrus Logic drivers.
everyone has been pointing to this post:
http://www.stuffedcow.net/macbook_audio
it doesn't really tell you what to do exactly. i'm not even sure what to do, but here's what i did. actually, i downloaded what was supposed to be the CS4207 driver here:
http://www.cirrus.com/en/products/pro/detail/P1233.html
then i followed the same procedure as before with the network adapter driver...."install driver", "check drivers on this computer", "choose from a list of drivers on this computer", "use disc", and in the dialogue box ("install from disc" that says "copy manufacturers files from", navigate to the folder you just downloaded from the above link.
you should have an updated list of drivers. what i don't understand is that the Cirrus site lists the most current driver as CS4207, but the only thing that has 4207 in it starts with CDB. in any case, i chose the last one on the list, CS4206A (AB 99).
i have no idea why i chose that, it just seemed to be the most current. in any case, sound works now.
Ok, i tested all this stuff in skype. wifi, microphone and speakers work, isight works. however, still no headphone sound. so if anyone knows how to fix that, please let me know. i haven't gotten to that part yet. but i've spent like over a week trying to figure this out. windows 7 is so horrible that there seems to be so many steps to getting it just right, and i just found myself starting all over (i didn't mention the nightmare with license breaks with AutoCad due to windows reading the clock differently...that's another hack that i had to deal with...and failure meant re-installing everything).
ok, off to bed now....

Windows 7 x64 all updates
Just doublechecking. Does that include the recent chkdsk hotfixes?
[The Chkdsk.exe program does not start correctly on a Windows 7-based computer|http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975778]

What type of deinterlacing does Apple use when exporting interlaced to QTM

There are many different ways to deinterlace video so I wonder which of them apple uses in QT Pro when you want to export to a QT movie.
For those who don't know what I'm talking about it concerns video that has been recorded for playback on a TV and each frame only holds half the information and needs to be meshed together or one of several techniques for it to play back on your computer monitor without leaving artifacts or horizontal lines around the edges of moving objects. No technique so far is perfect and I wonder which one apple chose because it doesn't give you any information on it.
Thanks
Kevin

The metal skin is really glued around the edge by a plastic frame. It is this frame that holds the skin to the main frame and can give problems.
I had to open my ti case to install an airport card. I either did it wrong or the apple glue job was poor because the gray plastic trim around the edge of the metal skin had come loose over 50% of the circumference.
I had a commercial 3M rubber cement on hand so I used that. I applied it with a toothpick very sparingly (of course the rubber cement gets stringy so the job was a ittle messy).
I let dry in a warm room for 24 hours. The reason I did that was fumes from curing glue can be caustic and attack some very thin metals etc. I fugured I wanted to lose any fumes before I trapped them in the warm computer.
It worked well and I haven't had a repeat of the problem.

Acrobat XI Pro 11.0.9: No frame, bad document render in Windows

After months of tolerably flaky performance (random crashes on document closse), last week Acrobat XI Pro started to misrender on the screen. The frame that Windows places around it would disappear, and the document, including the toolbars, would render at an offset from where it was supposed to be. Toggling the Acrobat menu bar with F9 would temporarily restore the frame but would leave artifacts of the mis-render, but selecting another application would cause the problem to appear again. Only Acrobat XI Pro is exhibiting this behavior.
Changing to Direct X 9 rendering didn't help, and changing back to Software rendering did not help.
Kaspersky anti-virus and rootkit scans show the system as clean.
System is Windows 7 Home premium, 64 bit, Service pack 1. Other software include Firefox, Office 365, and Visio Pro.
I have no idea why this started happening.

Hello,
I actually started facing the same problem last week. I searched around and found the following, which has actually solved my problem:
https://forums.adobe.com/message/6822383#6822383
http://forum.kaspersky.com/index.php?showtopic=307391&hl=Adobe
I have Kaspersky installed, and it looks like it's update has caused this issue. I updated kaspersky and everything is back to normal now.
In case you don't have kaspersky, then it could be related to your virus scanning software, try to find an update for it.
Hope this helps

Live Paint Bucket in CS5

Using Illustrator on a Windows box running XP sp3 with an Intuos 2
I've been using Illustrator CS2 for awhile and have upgraded to CS5. I need some help with a problem I'm experiencing with the Live Paint Bucket. I select the illustration, go to Object > Live Paint > Make and get the Blue bouning box. I choose my Fill and Stroke colors and go to work. It seems to work until I get a closer view, around 800%, and then I notice that the stroke isn't filling in some of the strokes completely (there appear to be gaps within the Path that don't show in a normal view). Its leaving artifacts (I don't know what else to call them) unstroked. I've attached two two examples of these artifacts. I've also tried to correct this with the Live Paint Selection Tool which I'm also having a problem with. I've released the Live Paint group and checked that all my paths connect and have corrected any problems I can see.
This hasn't helped either. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong. I've consulted the Help and either I can't read English with comprehension or........I can't find the correct words to bring up the problem.
I thank you in advance for any help you can give me.

I'll try to help. Since I don't know what you expect to see, it is hard to say what you're doing wrong. The gold line end, in the top left boxed area, can be selected with the Live Paint Selection tool and either deleted or painted with "none". Clicking on the line can be tricking with the selection tool because it tends to select the fill instead. Zoom in and you will see when it's selected, then just hit "delete" or type "/" to assign a stroke color of "none" to the selection.
You can also using the Live Paint Bucket tool to do this. With the Bucket tool active, hold "shift" to highlight strokes, then choose "none" and click. You can scroll through the color choices using the left and right arrow tools.
I'm not sure what you want to change in the center section. Remember, you don't have to release the Live Paint object to make edits to the paths with the pen or pencil tools. They remain fully editable. You can also add new paths to the Live Paint object by either working in "isolation mode" or by dragging paths into the Live Paint object within the Layers Panel.

Any Other Dinosaurs Out There? Need PhotoDeluxe Business Edition 1.0 Help (Restore after Crash)

I'm still using BE 1.0 and very happy with it, but in rare instances it crashes. It leaves behind a file named ~PDTnnnn.tmp in my "...\Local Settings\Temp" folder. Is it possible to restore the session from this file?

Bob,
I have no idea how this topic was revived - that is, procedurally. In the course of answering many posts, I started an e-mail correspondence with a guy who still uses PBE 1.0. I e-mailed him a message on a new glitch in PBE (leaving artifacts when moving text or cutting and pasting selections within an image). I haven't heard from him since I did so. Perhaps, somehow, my message to him became a new post. How that would occur is beyond me, but I've been in the computer business long enough that nothing much surprises me anymore.
I believed your assertion ("No. Trash the file. Bob") from the moment I read it because, operating in a Windows world, I knew that not many utilities are built to recover from fatal errors. I prefer the UNIX/Linux world where that's usually one of the initial design considerations.
I also prefer UNIX/Linux because things tend to work as advertised more often, and often more quickly. In the process of creating a flyer for a new restaurant in my area, I started out using PBE under WinXP Pro SP2, but it left the artifacts I mentioned above when I moved text. I switched to GIMP and, after much delay in learning it, finally produced a flyer that looked great on "print preview".
However, on printing, I got only a tiny upper-left corner, much magnified, of the flyer. I checked every setting that might even remotely affect the pixels-per-inch ratio. Tinkering with them made no difference. I salvaged the project by writing the GIMP image as a PNG file, then opening it in PBE and printing it.
When the flyer was successfully used, the restaurant owner wanted a slight modification to change it from special- to general-purpose. I booted Ubuntu Linux, ran GIMP there, opened the special-purpose PNG file, completed the edits in mere minutes, and printed in the desired "zoom" on letter-size paper using the same GIMP settings that, in the Windows version, would have produced an impressive stand-up cardboard flyer for a movie-theater lobby. (Whew! I haven't written a sentence that long since my undergraduate sixth-semester English Literature midterm paper.)
All this verbage is a way of saying that you put the original question to bed long ago in your original post. I'm learning a great deal about image processing in both the WinXP and the Ubuntu worlds, which is intellectually satisfying since I once worked two consecutive jobs where I manipulated images, both with software I wrote to convert between image formats and with a custom-written binary-file editor to convert a scanned image file to one which could be inserted into any stream to any printer.
However, I can't afford to spend that this much time on image editing because my real strength and my employment objective lies in creating special-purpose software in the UNIX-flavored world somewhere in the Florida Panhandle, near but not home (I'm the bayou variety).
Thanks for keeping an eye on posts, and for your definitive help at the outset.
- 'Gator sends

Export Settings - Minimum Bit Rate Question (MPEG2-DVD)

Hi,
Curious...just came over recently from FCP and I don't remember Compressor giving me an option to adjust the MINIMUM bit rate when exporting HD projects for DVD. I figured I'd just leave it where the preset has it (at 2.8mbps minimum)...BUT...then I hovered over it and saw an interesting popup/explanation of what it does which kind of confuses me. It says:
Higher values set a higher minimum quality, but reduce quality of more difficult scenes.
The first part makes sense so I figured I'd raise it...but then the second part makes me think I should keep it low. Sort of confuses me. Any thoughts??? FYI: My projects are Weddings with a fair amount of action, etc.
Normally, these are my settings depending unless I can't fit the project onto the disc in which case I adjust:
DVD
CBR at 7.5mbps
...or...
VBR 2pass
Target Bit Rate: About 6.8 or 7mbps
Max Bit Rate: Usually 8mbps
BLURAY
VBR 2pass
Target Bit Rate: 25mbps
Max Bit Rate: 30mbps
Unless someone tells me that I should raise these settings higher for better quality output (if the project size allows of course) these are what I've been using to get maximum quality out of my videos without jepordizing playback due to bit rate max for each media (which I think I read was 10mb and 40 or 50mbps respectively. I was just thrown by the minimum bit rate description above.
Thank you in advance for your help!

The whole notion of a minimum bitrate is crazy unless you have specific broadcast requirements that require you to pad out video to keep the connection alive.
If the encoder can express the image with zero loss in less than the minimum bitrate why would you pad it with zeros to get the bitrate high enough to meet the min?
The idea of a nominal/average bitrate is easy to understand.
The Maximum bitrate is often misunderstood though.
On some encoders the max rate sets the wiggle room (max - average) that can be used if there is a burst of required information.
On other encoders it sets the maximum rate at which the video buffer is allowed to fill as per the specifications. eg Blu-ray is capped at 40Mbps. The Video encode itself MAY EXCEED THAT 40Mbps for a split second but will only LOAD into the video buffer at up to 40Mbps.
For example, if you set constant bitrate at 20Mbps and no Maximum rate when the video first starts loading from the blu-ray disc to the video buffer it loads faster than the blu-ray maximum of 40Mbps. Thus you MUST have a maximum rate defined (for blu-ray compliance) even though it's a constant bitrate. Some encoders do this for you but some leave it up to the user to get right (and thus should provide a max slider and constant slider to set both).
Jeff- absolutely agree. It's very rare that you need to use all 40Mbps available to you. 20 and 30 can look great (depending on the detail in the sceen and how much motion there is).
VBR 2-pass does have value if you're trying to get down to lower rates like 10Mbps to fit a long title on a disc. If you don't action shots with sceen cuts will leave artifacts as they are bit starved.
I'm actually a big fan of Constant _Quality_ (CQ) vs CBR or VBR. You then know what quality you're going to get on every frame and from experience will know how big it will come out to be. CQ is also considerably faster to render because you have no rate control computations to do. x264pro has a CQ option for this very reason.
hope that helps.

Force Attachments as Attachments, not inline

Hi,
I'm using Mail for my work email now, because I'm tired of Thunderbird leaving artifacts on my desktop whenever I open an attachment. I've grown quite fond of it, but for one quirk.
I'm required to deal with .slk files on a regular basis, and for some reason the Mail application forces them in-line. I would prefer to open them with StarOffice, because they're jibberish in-line.
Is there a way to force included files to be treated as attachments, and not in-line? I can't find anything in the preferences.
TIA -
Mike

Greetings,
Mail doesn't force any attachments to be inline; that's determined by the recipient's email client. You can prevent that by sending all mail as Plain Text only, or compress the files into a .zip archive and send that instead.

Flash CS 4 to Quicktime frame issues

I'm rendering short (3 min.) Flash movies to Quicktime. The
movies are H.264, 1280 x 720, 15 fps, and I'm working on the
fastest machine Apple currently makes. Flash can't seem to complete
the task, as it leaves artifacts from earlier frames in subsequent
frames. It's very annoying.
Is there a setting I can tweak that will make this program do
what I bought it for?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Jody Radzik
Institute for the Future

You appear to be discussing features built-in to Dreamweaver that involve Flash content, so you may get better information from the Dreamweaver forum in regards to using these feaures.
It is unlikely that Dreamweaver 2004 would be compatible with Flash CS4, though compatibility is not really an issue since Flash has little use for Dreamweaver to do nything it needs to, and Dreamweaver is pretty much just a fancified text editor, where if you needed to incorporate Flash CS4 content you could have Flash publish the html code and then paste that code into the html file in Dreamweaver.

Flash Animation to Quicktime Oddities

Hello,
I created an animation using pngs in cmyk format for a client
and added music. The artboard is 500 pixels/400 pixels at 28 fps.
It involves many images coming in and moving out of frame. All the
tracks/layers are ended with an empty frame when completed. It runs
about 1 minute and 40 seconds. There are some pngs that are big,
resolution-wise, but most are small single items. This needs to run
in Quicktime (or other) on a television as a loop. I seem to be
missing a detail because when I export to Quicktime, the images
have started to "trace" or leave artifacts across the screen.
Pieces of the images are left behind when they move out or across
the screen. I'm learning in "real time" so I need advice although
I'm sure my query is highly generic. Can anyone help me fix my
conversion to Quicktime? Does this problem sound familiar?
Sincerely, Al

I have the same exact problem and have not been able to solve
it. When I export the file again and again, the issue repeats and
doesn't necessarily show up in the same places. Is this a common
problem, does anyone have a solution to this? Thanks, Denis

Can't fix black box on dock app with evilwm

I'm currently running evilwm and trying to get a dock app to work with it. Right now I am stuck with a black box on the bottom 1/5th of the screen where the dock application is located.
I have tried the following combinations, to no avail:
xcompmgr + cairo-dock
xcompmgr + docky
cairo-compmgr + docky
I have managed to get the dock to work in each combination, and the visual effects from the composite managers are working, but I can't get any of them to remove this black box.
I tried cairo-dock with both OpenGL and Cairo arguments, and neither worked. I'm confident that my drivers are functional, because I've been running TF2 with no issues.
I suspect that there are some compatibility issues where transparent backgrounds are not supported by evilwm, or some such, but for all my searching I can't find any documentation of this. I also cannot find any instances of people with this same issue.
Any ideas?

blazn wrote:
Yes, I can recieve sms after the first one, and I can continue to recieve them. The only thing that I can't recieve is a mms or anything else pertaining to data like Facebook notifications.
Oh. That is quite a different matter. An MMS message requires a download of data, which cannot be done while on a call. SMS, yes, data no unless your device has WiFi, which the 8330 does not.
Your earlier post stated you could receive a "txt", which is SMS.
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