Our studio server died a few weeks back and I had to rebuilt it. I suddenly realised that it was our Quark QLA server. A feeling of dread came over me, but to my relief and Quark's credit, it was very simple to reinstall. In fact v4.5 is very nice. It will now email me when the backup server has taken over. While installing it I found the screen below. Our license seem to last a very look time. Quark obviously plans to be around for a some time to come.

Tags: Quark

Recently I had to play some mpeg2 files on my Mac and they just wouldn't play. This was odd as under Tiger they would play fine. I had Final Cut Studio v2 installed and this comes with the mpeg2 codec, so all should have been fine. I tried it on my machine at the office and that did the exact same thing. As one final test I went to a machine that had just had Final Cut Studio v2 installed on a new Leopard install. Amazingly the mpeg2 played. What was the difference?

The difference is. The other two machines had been upgraded to Leopard. After some investigation I found that the machines not playing mpeg2 had the codec in library/quicktime, whereas the machine that did work had the codec in system/library/quicktime. The screenshot below shows how it should be. I simply copies the codec from the working machine to the broken one and removed the old codec from library/quicktime.

Tags: video, Work, macintosh, Leopard