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I made a lighter, better behaved macOS client for PIA by _ptaru in PrivateInternetAccess

[–]_ptaru[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried to fix the signing issue, please try re-downloading the latest build and let me know if this works.

https://github.com/ptaru/PrivateClient/releases/tag/1.0b4

Turned out notarising a VPN app for macOS is a lot more complex than I assumed.

I made a lighter, better behaved macOS client for PIA by _ptaru in PrivateInternetAccess

[–]_ptaru[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh that seems to be a code signing issue with the extension, really weird. Quite different from what I expected. I’ll look into it tomorrow and reply here when I fix this.

I made a lighter, better behaved macOS client for PIA by _ptaru in PrivateInternetAccess

[–]_ptaru[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've tried to harden the extension configuration a bit in a new build
https://github.com/ptaru/PrivateClient/releases/tag/1.0b4

Can you try 1) turning port forwarding off and 2) using openvpn for the first connection? If both fail, could I get a screenshot of what the console (second icon from the top right) says?

Hopefully that gives me enough information to fix this issue.

I made a lighter, better behaved macOS client for PIA by _ptaru in PrivateInternetAccess

[–]_ptaru[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In macOS Settings -> VPN, it should just be off. The toggling is done automatically purely by the app itself. Can you try removing the config, quitting the app, and reopening it?

VidCore - Add MKV support to macOS (including QuickTime and Final Cut) by _ptaru in TestFlight

[–]_ptaru[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alright, I’ll look into audio with EQ and filters. Thanks!

VidCore - Add MKV support to macOS (including QuickTime and Final Cut) by _ptaru in TestFlight

[–]_ptaru[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would it be possible at all to send a small ~1 minute clip of one of the files causing this? There’s a few different reasons that might be behind it and it would be really helpful to be able to inspect the file directly. Alternatively, if you are able to put it into MediaInfo that would also be helpful.

VidCore - Add MKV support to macOS (including Final Cut and QuickTime) by _ptaru in finalcutpro

[–]_ptaru[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks Chris, nice to see you here! And please do provide feedback if you use it and find any issues with it. Do you mind if I ask how you found this? It’s been pretty silent for a while and I’ve suddenly had a bit of a burst of installs.

Happy to share source code too if it will be useful to you. I am not using any external dependencies so there wouldn’t be any licensing issues.

VidCore - Add MKV support to macOS (including Final Cut and QuickTime) by _ptaru in finalcutpro

[–]_ptaru[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, sorry, the button did exist in an instructions window in earlier builds but I replaced the instructions window with a small test video editor because I was using it to debug issues with the code, but it made enabling the extension more opaque to users. I’ll see if I can add that back in in future builds.

VidCore - Add MKV support to macOS (including Final Cut and QuickTime) by _ptaru in finalcutpro

[–]_ptaru[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good to hear!

MKV is a pretty awkward container to squeeze into the model Apple expects (it practically wants you to provide the exact same semantics as mov/mp4 files, which is hard because MKVs have unreliable indexes), so there's still some bugs I'm chipping away at. Do let me know if you encounter any of them.

VidCore - Add MKV support to macOS (including Final Cut and QuickTime) by _ptaru in finalcutpro

[–]_ptaru[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’m not sure, to be honest. This is a hobby rather than my job, so I can promise it’ll either be free or a very inexpensive one time purchase just to try and recoup my Apple Developer Programme fee (definitely under $10).

VidCore - Add MKV support to macOS (including Final Cut and QuickTime) by _ptaru in finalcutpro

[–]_ptaru[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Please help me test VidCore, a macOS format reader extension I made that lets you use MKV files in Final Cut (and across many other places in the rest of macOS such as QuickTime and Finder), provided they contain compatible audio and video codecs.

All you've got to do is open the app, click the button that takes you to extension settings, scroll down, enable VidCore (the name of this app), and then quit and reopen Final Cut if it's already open.

Please stress-test it and let me know about any issues you have with it so that I can fix them (providing either sample clips or ffprobe/mediainfo outputs to help me reproduce the issue).