From: Nick Morris <stargazer@a1prints.co.uk>

Date: April 16, 2014 10:43:47 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] AstroIIDC and Mac OSX 10.9.2 Mavericks

Ahhh the man himself!

Hi Milton,

thanks for the reply.

I am embarrassed to say, i just did some experimenting with different Mac and cables - All work perfectly so went back to the original Macbook pro.  This also works perfectly, so I have no idea what went wrong.  At the time, I did plug/unplug the camera several times (quitting iChat).  The 4 mov files from earlier did not have a corresponding .txt file and all are 4KB in size.

As regards your suggestions:-

1) No log file created, just .mov files

2) Sorry I should have said that the movie file was created, it is just empty and won’t play.  The files appeared in the right location.

3) 200GB free

4) Real FW800 port on macbook pro 2.5GHZ Core 2 Duo with 4GB RAM. MacbookPro 4,1

The movies that i have recorded just now, will play using Quicktime. I’m puzzled, but will refer to the old computing adage in the event of a problem:- “Replace user and press any key to continue”

Hope you are well,

Nick

On 16 Apr 2014, at 17:21, Milton Aupperle <maupperl@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Nick;

I don't know why you would not get an error message.

A few thing to check..

1) Check the console log to see if any messages show up that are Astro IIDC related.

2) Make sure that you have reselected the default folder where to save movies to ("Preferences" ->  "Select default folder for grabbed frames, movies and logs…" page 90). Usually you get an -120 error if OSX (10.7 or higher) lies to us if the folder exists or not. However, if it's creating a file in the right folder, I'm not sure why it would not record to the location.

3) Is there enough disk space to record a movie on that volume / disk / partition?

4) Is this using a real Fire port or is it using a Thunderbolt to FireWire adapter? I have heard that people have had issues with other fire wire devices because Apple is woefully low on voltage and amperage.

On a possibly related note, Apple has ended QuickTime going forward. They will not accept apps that been use QuickTime or QTKit in the App Store. We dont' use QuickTime to record movies (I reverse engineered it and multi threaded it), but playing them or stacking does need QuickTime for access. The only format that Apple will support is MP4, which is 8 bit, color only and horribly compressed.

HTH..

Milton Aupperle

On 2014-04-16, at 7:17 AM, <stargazer@a1prints.co.uk> wrote:

Hi,

Is anybody out there using AstroIIDC with Mavericks (10.9.2) successfully?  I have just tried and although it appears to work, movies are not saved and all show as being 4KB files.....

Any ideas or do I need to step back a version of OSX or two....

thanks

Nick