M-2 Scalar Users

[Steve Sisak]

At 1:58 PM -0700 5/2/07, Kevin Lightner wrote:
>>Hello Scalar M-2 beta testers:
>>
>>Please try all driver updates with Proscope HR software as well as 
>>USB Shot. It may be that your problems are residing partly in the 
>>USB Shot application and not the driver alone. Proscope HR software 
>>is a free download from <http://www.proscopehr.com>www.p 
>>roscopehr.com ; Software link on the left; scroll down to the Mac 
>>download link. Thanks for your perseverance with this project. 
>>Please test the snapshot capabilities first before trying the video 
>>feature.
>
>I'll give it a go, but any viewing app seems to do this.
>The Proscope and USB shot have actually been the worst in this regard.
>But BTV Pro 5.4.1, Videoscope 1.3, Mixscope and others act the same 
>and freeze after a bit.

Hi Kevin,

I don't know much about Proscope HR, but I do know that USB shot is 
not a universal binary, so it will be running under Rosetta on Intel 
machines -- it's also not the most stable of applications, but we 
have no control over it.

The driver should work in this environment, but may not perform as 
well as in a native application and there are definitely different 
code paths involved.

If you want another test application, there is a modified copy of 
HackTV (QuickTime test application) on our website that you can use 
for testing in this directory:

<http://www.ioxperts.com/downloads/Utilities/>

HackTV Universal is a universal binary and will run native on either 
PPC or Intel.

HackTV Carbon is PPC only and will exercise the Rosetta code path if 
you run it on an Intel machine.

Assuming you're on am Intel machine, it may be worth trying both and 
see if there are any differences -- also try relaunching ioxdeviced 
as described in my previous message.

If that doesn't work, Install the logging version of the driver and 
send me the logs of some misbehavior as well as the steps to 
reproduce.

Also, there is definitely something going on on 10.4.9 that wasn't 
present on 10.4.8, but I don't have enough data to understand it yet.

Thanks,

-Steve
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