TubeSock 3.0 beta 19
November 3rd, 2008
A new beta release of TubeSock for Mac is out! And maybe there’s something to theory of lucky prime number beta builds after all.
TubeSock 3.0 has advanced to beta 19 (download TubeSock 3.0 beta 19 here!) and it fixes the crash on PowerPC / Tiger Macs in beta 18. Yes, we finally got our dead PowerBook G4 up and running, and after a seriously large amount of tediousness, we found the bug. It was in the new code that displays the FPS counter. Apparently the conversion can be slow enough on PowerPC that it exposed a condition where the buffer containing the FPS could be empty. The code has been re-written in a much more defensive manner, so a null this or a nil that won’t crash anything.
A few other fixes made their way in: fixes to a site that made a recent change, a rare condition where the output name could match the input name and overwrite the input file, and some more general interface tweaking.
Please download the new beta, and let us know if you find any problems with it.
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:05 am
Amazing! Worked perfectly! Now I can get some of these videos that I’ve been needing! Thank you so much! I’m a student pastor, and use a lot of media and now I can continue thanks to your help!
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:45 am
Glad it worked for you. I think the take-home point for me is, don’t add new features, like an FPS counter, after the beta is already out.
November 30th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
The beta works fine on my G4 10.4.11.
Good job!