Compressor 4.1

[Andrew Richards]

Working for me in early testing, but I did manage to get it to lock up once when trying to use it as a local “cluster”.

Best,
Andy

[David Brewer]

4.1 is missing the Qmaster. I took a look at the packages for 4.1 and 4.0.7… 4.1 is missing the Qmaster and 4.0.7 has the Qmaster. In 4.7 you can’t change the number of instances.

[David Eaks]

Having trouble here too. Same thing, either crash while opening or just the Compressor file bar with no window.

Logging in as a guest user gets around the problem.

Being the testing partition on my secondary system, I’m not all that surprised. Will do a clean OS install tonight and report back with results.

[Craig Seeman]

Compressor with no window. Try trashing
~/Library/Application Support/Compressor/Layouts

For good measure I also trashed:
Command Sets
History
Settings
Storage

I believe I had same problem Yes it was fine in Guest User for me as well. Just not in my primary Admin Account.

Crashing. I looked at the crash thread and it looked like some plugin related thing. I deleted Matrox utilities (I have MXO2 which I hadn’t updated since updating OS to Mavericks and that fixed my crash.

[Andrew Richards]

Compressor 4.1 spawns a qmasterd process on my system and it still seems to do things when jobs are submitted. Encoding itself is handled by compressord instances in my observations.

Best,
Andy

[David Brewer]

Well you got a beta version to work with… In the Apple Compressor forum other are having the same problem with the Qmaster. Take a look at your Compressor packages and see if you have the Qmaster there, I think it is in content.

[David Eaks]

Thanks Craig,

I also had Matrox MXO2 utilities from before Mavericks and after the first crash, that was the first thing I did. Removing it stopped the crashing, leaving me at the blank Compressor without any UI.

I’ll trash those files.

Looking forward to info about the new hardware h.264 encoding and comparing it to Matrox MAX.

[Andrew Richards]

Huh? I’m not on any betas. I’m running the GA Compressor 4.1 that released today.
/Applications/Compressor.app/Contents/PlugIns/Compressor/CompressorKit.bundle/Contents/Frameworks/Qmaster.framework/Resources/qmasterd
The stand-alone Qmaster app is no more, and the Qmaster menu in Compressor is no more, but the daemon still exists and is still part of Compressor in v4.1. The clustering functionality still seems to call upon qmasterd.

Best,
Andy

[Geoff Addis]

Craige, thanks for your suggestion, but I cannot see ~/Library/Application Support/Compressor/Layouts, so is it correct to assume this file has already been thrashed?

Where are these files?

Thanks in advance,

Geoff

[Frank Gothmann]

Geoff, you are aware that the user’s Library directory is invisible, right? Starting with Lion, Apple in its infinite wisdom decided to hide that folder from you for absolutely no reason because it’s the one system folder one needs to get to to fix things up all the time.
So… when in the Finder hit alt and go to your “Go” menu. You will find your Library folder in that menu with that magic button pressed.

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