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Soli said:

maltz said:

Soli said:

Rayz2016 said:

maltz said:

AppleInsider said:

Auto-play video you actually want is a different matter, though. 

There's no such thing.

Yup, never come across one of those. Would love an example. 

I can think of lots of examples where I want video to auto-play. When I select a title on the DVR, I don't it to load up not play. This is what QuickTime X does. There is/was a hidden PLIST feature to make videos auto-play. The same goes for video streaming sites. When I select, say, a music video on YouTube, a Funny or Die video, or Netflix title I want them to auto-play. Facebook Livestreams are another source I want to auto-play when I click on the video page. The only thing I absolutely don't want auto-playing are ad videos, but even then I may agree to it if it's a prerequisite for playing the intended video.

I would gladly trade having to click on a play button in those situations if it meant never again suffering the unexpected blast of audio from an auto-play video.  Also, I often open multiple videos in multiple tabs.  It's a huge pain when I have to chase them down and stop them as I open them.  Much easier to just click play when I'm ready.

I think most of those I mentioned will not auto-play from their webpage if the tab or window is in the background.

I've had multiple experiences with video and audio playing in a tab that wasn't in the foreground.  In fact if I recall correctly, Apple made a point of mentioning this annoying experience when they added the click off sound icon at the right side of the navigation bar specific to that page in Safari at the launch of Sierra (or perhaps an earlier OS).

I love High Sierra stopping on the auto play feature but I wonder how long before we see a message saying "We see you are blocking auto play on this web site, please disable this to continue reading this page" as I see all the time with any ad blocker on static content now with older versions of Safari.

By the way for those still using Sierra and not intending to upgrade to High Sierra just yet, Apple's Safari Technology Preview already has this feature for Sierra users.  It works perfectly.

lowededwookie said:

Safari has the option to turn Reader View on for EVERY page that has it by default.

The Never AutoPlay feature is a boon as well.

Anyone know how to turn of APFS AFTER an install? I missed the option for it and I've still got an HPFS+ partition.

Boot into the Recovery Partition (Command R at start up) and use Disk Utilities from there.  There is an option to convert the boot partition to APFS .  Be warned it's one way only, no revert back option.  Once you've done this even formatting the boot drive to be HFS+ again is problematic on a Mac as of yet.  You can erase it in disk utilities and restore a back up but it will fail to boot. Running the disk utilities repair function will fail.

JFYI I found a work around to remove the complex boot structure APFS created during the APFS conversion.  By using Parallels or VMWare on another Mac, mounting the drive and using MiniTools (a PC partitioning disk utility) to delete all partitions on the APFS SSD .  Once done the SSD can now be formatted as HFS+ by a Mac  with the correct set up to boot.  I am sure Apple's disk utilities will do this soon but as of yet even beta 2 can't.

techrules said:

foggyhill said:

ksec said:

You can argue that Google and Amazon has set the standard too high, where both have had MUCH more customers then Apple to serve but has far fewer downtimes on their Server Infrastructure. I think it is also worth mention that Apple 's Cloud is getting ( finally ) better over the past 12 months with fewer problems. Lets hope they keep on improving.

THIS is why I don't trust my data to the cloud. I have my own server.

You will have to take care your Data Safety such as bit flop, HDD failure, ransomeware, fire hazard etc. I am not against having an own server. But seriously I want BOTH. I want a Time Machine that takes my backup first, and iCloud as my secondary backup.
  

Well, I think Apple was using someone else's backend for at least part of its Icloud solutions cause they certainly didn't have enough of it when the Iphone had its explosive growth from 2010 to 2015. There is a reason they've been building data centers like crazy.

I think saying Amazon have a stellar report here is a bit much considering Amazon has had major fucks in the last year were thousands of companies were affected.

Don't have enough info on Google to comment either way.

My understanding is that Apple was using Amazon for the backend of their cloud services and a year ago started moving to Google.     Apple is only doing the index while the actual data is stored on Amazon or Google.   So it must be an index issue?    As Google and Amazon clouds have not had any issues over the last couple of days.    I think Google is now going to offer their own backup and restore service which would probably be more reliably than something from Apple.

"Cloud Makes For Strange Bedfellows: Apple Signs On With Google, Cuts Spending With AWS"
http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/300080062/cloud-makes-for-strange-bedfellows-apple-signs-on-with-google-cuts-spending-with-aws.htm

"Apple and Google reached a deal worth between $400 million and $600 million to host iCloud and other data on Google Cloud Platform. "

That was my understanding too.  Perhaps it is the transition itself behind the issue.  I doubt we'll ever hear though.  As to comments above about not trusting cloud storage  from foggy hill, I agree that using several methods is the best  as ksek said.  I make Carbon Copy Clones as image files of all my Macs regularly and certainly prior to any beta installations and also family members' regular Macs, when they let me, and store them away on large HDDs locally too.  Great thing about modern Macs is the relatively small SSDs make for a fast and easy imaging process.  OT a bit but talking about backups and restorations, if you set up a boot disk as APFS you will have fun trying to erase it and set it back to HFS+.  I found a fast solution, use Windows (I used Parallels) and used MiniTools to 'Delete' all partitions.  Then I was able to re format in Mac OS with disk utilities as HFS+ without issue.  If I miss out the MiniTools part I can do a full restoration of a bootable disk onto a formatted disk which Disk Utilities thinks it's formatted but it won't boot as noted by CCC notes.  I am sure as the 10.13 betas progress Disk Utilities will work and remove the APFS correctly until then this works.  You can also use Terminal but this was faster for me.

I'd like to know why the manufacturers cannot run more test before selling these lemons!  Excessive bad sector relocation at the hardware level could be tested prior to selling in in-house testing ... surely?  It seems pretty likely many would fail that are sold if tested more. 

This quote below from the great support folks at SoftRaid regarding a relatively new Barracuda drive that was part of a large RAID that was flagged as doomed by SoftRAID using SMART.  I asked WTF as I was curious.   I loved his analogy.  Kudos to Mark..

"It is a statistical prediction. But 88 sectors is bad. We generally say simple prediction, the disk is 20-40 times more likely to fail. If a disk is 5% likely to fail in the calendar year, this one is 40-200 times more likely to fail.

On a monthly basis, lets take .5% per month.

This drive is 10-20% likely to fail in the next month.

But it could last a year, or a day.

You go to doctor. BP is 200/140. Cholestrol is 250. Doc says, "you are going to die kid if you don't change. "

"How soon?"

Who knows?
I had an aunt with 220 blood pressure. She never treated it. Ever. Lived to 91. But when she died, what happened was all her veins softened from whatever disease she had and they exploded internally, and she bled out from within. Sad. But she lived for a long time with incredibly high blood pressure. So you never know.

Then there was uncle Jay. Died at 42 from a heart attack. ;-)

So you never know. But stats don't lie, they just indicate.


Mark James
mjames @ ;SoftRAID.com"

radarthekat said:

The holy grail will be to entirely eliminate the curvature (lens barrel) distortion that occurs at the edges and you pan, so that the resulting video looks as though it were taken by a high-end video camera that's actually panning about the scene.  That might be possible from the video captured, but requiring much more post-processing cycles, or it might just not be possible given the shape of the camera's very wide angle (fisheye?) lenses.  Anyone have any insights on this? 

Speaking as someone who was very privileged back in the 90's to have one of my companies win a contract to produce several years of one hour sports shows for ESPN and ESPN2 I perhaps look at this from a slightly different perspective.  My favorite roll was taking the 'God' seat.  That's editing.  We were bleeding edge non-linear but still working from hundreds of hours of 1 hour Betacam SP tapes via A/D conversion.  I called it the God seat as the editor could select anything from what was available within the parameters of the program and channel guidelines. For example,  I could see a young rider still sleeping in a tent come in 50th but find a very personable interview with him on some B-roll.  Air that and a few more over a few weeks and see him gain sponsorship and sleep in a hotel shortly thereafter end in the top five spots.  That's the power of the God editor.  In all this wonderful freedom of non-linear editing the output was a pristine (trying not to laugh) 640 x 480 pixels that banks of Macs rendered for hours producing the final programs.  

I was however, even in the God seat, constrained by what was on those hundreds of hours worth of tapes for each program.  Within what there was I had bad pans, poor zooms, lousy sound tracks (cameramen chatting up the girl next to him) and so on.  

Then I see this article and it's OMG.  Rarthekat is totally correct, the inevitable outcome in time will require far higher resolution so that the cropped area is free of distortion as possible using advanced software.  There is no need to pan across the sphere of course, a good editor can use fast cuts from one cropped area to another.  I am sure in this example the panning is to show the spherical image from which there is to select an area of interest.  

Some will like making people feel sick of course  as it's 'rad', .a.k.a. son of The Blair Witch Project, I call it .  LOL

Given we have to be talking 4K for future proofing at least, the cameras for the likes of ESPN will need to be capturing astronimical data resolutions but I have zero doubt it will come and soon if not already here (I am out of the loop these days).   The God seat, with a a bunch of these types of cameras, each with an infinite number of views on any scene, each able to be cropped, distortion free to 4K is something I'd like to sit in.

p.s. I see no reason that FCPro X and Premiere could not add the ability to work with such data streams.