{"id":1636,"date":"2003-12-16T16:00:23","date_gmt":"2003-12-16T21:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=381"},"modified":"2003-12-16T16:00:23","modified_gmt":"2003-12-16T21:00:23","slug":"would-whoops-cover-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1636","title":{"rendered":"Would “Whoops!” cover it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.
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\nObviously, 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<\/a> forum is pretty sickening.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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