So, I’m working with some MPEG-2 compressed video clips that need re-editing. Fortunately, Apple has a Quicktime component for dealing with that compression. Unfortunately, that component seems to have stopped working for people as of sometime yesterday. There’s a fairly simple workaround though… Just reset the date for the system to any day before the 15th of December.
Obviously, it’s a programming error. Someone forgot to remove some time-out from some beta somewhere and it made it into the final release, but reading the responses in Apple’s discussion forum is pretty sickening.
Why on earth do people think that this was something deliberate? Seriously, it’s as if they’ve never made a mistake before… I haven’t heard such a collection of whiny crybabies since… well… since I used to work in tech support.
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