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When will new AJA drivers be released?
Since the Mac OS 10.6.8 updater killed our ability to use the AJA Kona 3 it’s been written in several places that AJA was working on updated drivers that wouldn’t crash 10.6.8. It had been said that the fix should be ready yesterday (6/27) or today (6/28).
So, does anyone know the status of the AJA fix? WHEN is it realistically expected? I REALY don’t want to do the whole re-install and update to get back to 10.6.7 because of the many, many other things this could affect, but I can’t go too many more days without the ability to use the external monitor.
Thanx for any info anyone can provide.
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Hi Nick,
I was looking for new AJA drivers for another reason, not the 10.6.8 update issue, and there is a v9.01 on the AJA web site for Kona 3. What I don’t know is if that is approved by Media100 for Suite 2.
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From what I’ve read even the new 9.01 does not solve the 10.6.8 problem.
On another forum someone was discussing re-setting the Kernel to 64 bit, but I am not OS-technical enough to know what or how this is done.
Hopefully SOMEBODY will fix this soon, as working without an external monitor is boardering on being dangerous.
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Aja tech support said to me that they don´t have an idea if engineering is working on a fix for this problem. Some of the earlier MacPros cannot boot in 64bit mode anyway. But you could try. There is a little tool called “32- or 64 bit Kernel startup”. If you search for it on macupdate,com, you will find it. This can tell you (and set you up) to boot in 64bit mode.
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Another example of waiting to upgrade software until it’s been tested. I have the Media100 suite version 1.6.1 on the following system
Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 3.2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per processor): 12 MB
Memory: 8 GB
Bus Speed: 1.6 GHzNo matter what I try to play on Media 100 suite I get the error message “Could not play because of a bad video frame”.
Anyone have ANY suggestions? I promise to not update software again until I research that it’s been tested.
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Did you upgrade to 10.6.8, and do you have Media 100 i codec material in your timeline? If the answer to both questions is yes, then you are currently out of luck (except installing OSX 10.6.7 again or going to the backup of your system you made before installing 10.6.8, which you hopefully did). Apple broke the MJPEG-B codec once again, which is the base for the “old” Media 100 i codec.
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OUCH. Thanks Floh. Time to reinstall 10.6.7. There goes they day.
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So I reinstalled MacOS to 10.6.3. I’ve upgraded to Suite 1.7.1. Now when I open up Media100 I get the error message ” Could not create the keyframe player because the Media 100 Suite System is lock up”.
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
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Get the Suite 1.7.1 installer and reinstall the application. Sounds like one of the components of the application is missing. You can download the 1.7.1 installer from the Media 100 support website.
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Joe, I’m not trying to be a smart arse but why is everybody so eager to install every software update that appears? I don’t understand why the companies produce so many updates because the benefits of most of them seem to be very slight. Isn’t it better to wait until you are clear and then do a major upgrade of whatever applications you have, all at once. The advantages are that after say six months to a year, every combination will have been tried and tested. That’s what I do and it still keeps my edit suite pretty much up to date.
Michael Slowe
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Michael you are 100% right. I should have known better and to check here before installing the upgrade. Lesson learned.
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