QuickTime X plays movies full screen for free
According to the latest reports from WWDC, QuickTime X finally brings the one feature that’s been missing for years: full-screen playback for non-Pro users. It’s long been a bugbear of QuickTime users and developers that you have to buy QuickTime Pro to play movies at full screen. It looks as though QuickTime X (currently being […]
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Audio crackles and dropouts caused by Airport Extreme...
I’ve been experiencing an annoying problem recently on my MacBook Pro running Mac OS 10.4.11. Any audio played in my DJ application, DJ-1800 v3.0.2, with Pitch Lock turned on, had constant crackles and pops, and was pretty much unusable. Even with Pitch Lock turned off, the crackles were still there if several tracks were played at […]
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Detecting protected AAC files in QuickTime
Recently, I needed to be able to check if AAC files passed to my application were Protected AACs from the iTunes Music Store or not. Here’s the C code I used to do this:
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