Thanks Rodney. I've been yelping about this for weeks now on this list, but no one has paid notice. I have pretty much same setup as you (mac, external mic, 0S9.1, and have tried with latest and earlier version of QT) only diff being that my OS is Japanese. It turns out, if you record without dialog, there is no difference between "good/better/best" as they are all perfectly awful. Moreover, you cannot replace the quality with a variable (local or global) without incurring a "failed to supply quality" error. If you use dialog and record in other formats, you can get some good sound on the Mac, especially ALaw2:1. But even if record quality is very good, I sometimes get weird "gapping" on playback. The thing cuts out for a few seconds, but nothing is actually lost, just a few moments of silence, then it picks up again where it left off. This is NOT a record problem, as the gaps occur in different spots and also the problem goes away if one quits and then restarts metacard. Note: this gapping playback problem may be a quicktime compatability problem. I have updated quicktime and switched languages to English quicktime. I hope that corrects the problem.
side note: If you use qtvisuals, they go by a different name in different languages of quicktime. Thus, if someone is running Japanese or some other quicktime, your visuals may not work. Moreover, the finder may return an error claiming that it cannot find that quicktime application. At least that's what seemed to happen to me. And, unfortunately, I don't think qtversion() returns the language. side note 2: funky player. When the player is paused, it sometimes leaves a ghost of the player thumb in all the places it was paused. At first I thought this was a handy built-in feature, so one could return to the exact previous pause spots, but it sometimes happens and sometimes doesnt. Thanks again to Rodney for raising the record issue again. And is it impossible to get MP3 as a record format? mark mitchell Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.
