From: "daffyddsant" <usenet@davidillig.com>

Date: January 30, 2012 10:26:10 AM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: Video Saved to Disk is Black

Milton,

Your mention of QuickTime set me to thinking. For unknown reasons, the default app for opening QT movies on my MB Pro was the "modern" version. I also have QT 7 Pro, and when I made that the default app for .mov files the problem was fixed--my DMK now records video and frame captures properly. I am running the current version of AIIDC 

Apple made QuickTime an important part of the Mac OS, then they watered it down, reducing its capabilities. 

Thanks for taking time to help with this problem.

David

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Milton Aupperle <milton@...> wrote:

Hi David;

I missed that too, and it's in the name of your camera ( a DMK is a  

monochrome camera,  a color camera would be DBK). So that is not the  

issue at all.

I have not had any reports of the this happening under Lion. And I  

just booted into Lion (10.7.3) on my MBP 17" and Mono 8 movies I  

recorded previously played just fine with the "QuickTime Player 7.7"  

app and the "QuickTime Player 10" app. The older "QuickTime 7" is more  

reliable as far as I'm concerned.

Which version of Astro IIDC are you using? The most current is 4.07.03  

Rev 2 at:

http://www.outcastsoft.com/ASCASTROIIDC.html#DOWNLOAD

HTH..

Milton Aupperle

On 28-Jan-12, at 9:31 PM, daffyddsant wrote:

Thanks, Milton. I failed to note that this is a monochrome camera. I  

don't *think* the problem is with AIIDC.

David

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Milton Aupperle <milton@> wrote:

Dear David;

Likely you did not install our Bayer codec.

From our FAQ (web site, read me first and trouble shooting section  

of the manual):

http://www.outcastsoft.com/ASCASTROIIDC.html#FAQ

I just recorded a color movie and when I try and play the movie in  

QuickTime Player or stack and align it, I get a warning about a  

codec being missing and it does not play. Why??

You may not have installed our Bayer Codec to play back or process  

the color movies your recorded. Locate the "Astro IIDC Installer"  

disk image and double click on it to mount it. Now locate the  

"BayerInstaller" package on the disk image, double click on it and  

let it walk you through the install. No re-start is required after  

the codec is installed either.

The other issue could be that your using an App that is 64 bit and  

Quicktime doesn't support 64 bit. Apple has Zero intentions of ever  

updating QuickTime and their "AV Foundation" that is supposed to  

replace QuickTime has no 3rd Party plug in architecture - nor do  

they intend to add that in. Basically Lion is the start of the  

locking the platform down.

HTH..

Milton Aupperle

On 2012-01-28, at 6:45 PM, daffyddsant wrote:

IS DMK 21BF04 FireWire on a Lunt solar scope. First effort at  

solar imaging. Latest version of AIIDC. MB Pro from April 2010 w.  

8GB of RAM and latest version of Lion. The camera connects to  

AIIDC and the preview looks fine. Recording does not give any  

errors. But when the video plays back it is black.

I tried other software--BTV Pro--and it would not save video or  

still images to disk.

Is there a problem with Lion (which generally works OK for me) or  

perhaps some driver or bit o knowledge that I am missing?

TIA!

David