MPEG2 muxed files have no audio in Quicktime
If you have ever opened a VOB file from a DVD in Quicktime, you’ve probably noticed that there is no sound. When you examine the properties of the file, you’ll see that it is an
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Category: Troubleshooting
IE 7 ordered list numbering bug
The other day, I found an Internet Explorer ordered-list bug I hadn’t seen before:
A numbered list of items which looks right in other browsers will be rendered with the number “1” in front of every item in IE7.
This happens when a width is added to the “LI” tags in an ordered list. Internet Explorer 7 will not increment the numbers.
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Captivate scoring problem
An instructional designer came to me with a Captivate issue the other day. She had converted a working version 3 Captivate file to version 4. The converted file no longer calculated scores properly. There was a walk-through tutorial showing how to use a new web application, then a short multiple-choice quiz with 5 questions. The setting “Show Progress” was turned on, so each question should show a label: “Question 1 of 5, Question 2 of 5, etc.”
In version 3, everything had worked fine. In version 4, things looked fine in Edit mode, but at runtime, the numbering was off. The first question was numbered “Question 2 of 7” and it would increment from there.
I immediately assumed it was counting clickboxes from somewhere else in the file, but when I looked at the Advanced Interaction page, Add to Total was grayed out for all buttons and clickboxes, and Track Score was also not checked for any of them. So, I assumed it could not be the clickboxes. Thinking it might be some corruption in the question slides, I re-created all the quiz questions, and yet the problem remained.
Continue readingCaptivate, right-click and accessibility
One of my colleagues wrote that she had used the right-click feature in her latest Captivate project. When she previewed the file using Preview > Project, it worked fine. But when she attempted to publish
Continue readingfatal error: class ‘OAuthCommonHooks’ not found
On installing the OAuth module in a Drupal site, this error appeared: fatal error: class ‘OAuthCommonHooks’ not found in [path] Fatal error: Class ‘OAuthCommonHooks’ not found in /drupal-6.13/sites/all/modules/oauth_common/oauth_common.module on line 58 Apparently you can fix
Continue readingDrupal: increase upload file size limit
By default, Drupal enforces file-size limits on uploads. Although there is a place in Drupal’s File Upload settings to alter the maximum file sizes (/admin/settings/uploads), chances are your PHP settings limit file size to 2MB
Continue readingFinal Cut Pro quits on startup
If the scratch disk used by Final Cut Pro cuts out in the middle of an export, Final Cut Pro becomes unstable: the next time you try to launch it, it will crash on startup.
Continue readingIE8: Font size problems
Now that Internet Explorer 8 is out, I’m getting some reports of font-size issues: text that looks fine in all other browsers becomes very tiny. When I check the same pages in my own IE8
Continue readingError: “Partition size not a multiple of 4k” on formatting a new drive
New Iomega drives ship with NTFS filesystems, formatted for MSDOS. They must be reformatted to work with Mac OS X. However when attempting to format these drives you may get this error: “Partition size not
Continue readingKeyboard stops working but only in Finder
A new problem that’s been plaguing my Mac these days is that the keyboard sometimes stops working, but only in the Finder. In all the other applications, it remains functional. I use a Wacom tablet,
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