Another Microsoft Office update that won't install.
I'm trying to install this one over version 12.2.5 but it fails every time during the Running Package Receipts phase of the install. I previously had this problem trying to install version 12.2.5 over 12.2.4. I eventually got that version to install after wiping my hard-drive, doing a clean install of Snow Leopard and then installing all my applications from scratch. I didn't install Entourage or MSN Messenger from the disk and that might be confusing the updates.
It says that installing this update will take up 239.1 MB on the hard drive even though the disk image file is around 350 MB in size so something is definitely weird with this update.

Having used this beta 8 version for a while now I can say that it's definitely more stable than the previous beta release and hasn't caused any crashes yet. It seems to do what it's supposed to these days. Having already paid for this I'm looking forward to the finished product.

I really like the way this GUI works but it seems to have a problem running games that require the CD to run. If you drag the game CD to the boxer icon it opens DOSBox with the CD set as the D drive and your chosen folder as the C drive. However, if you then try and run anything it seems to forget that the CD is the D drive and you get a message saying the CD is not there. It even renamed a folder that I already had on the desktop to "D" which I'm pretty sure it shouldn't be able to.

I'd like to add these games all loaded fine when using Petit DOSBox GUI which is far older and not even a Universal binary.

I've just noticed this script creates a file called hotmail.script in your root folder. Nasty.

This codec is handy for playing a number of file types with Quicktime that the DivX codec cannot handle. These include MS-MPEG4v1 and MS-MPEG4v2 encoded movies. It can also play XviD, DivX 3.11, DivX 4 and DivX 5 encoded files but since it lacks an audio parser like that of the DivX codec, it requires that any .avi file containing mp3 audio be converted to a .mov file using DivX Doctor before sound can be played. I would therefore recommend having the DivX codec installed to play back those file types. The DivX codec overrides FFusion if both codecs are installed and the decoding capabilities of the FFusion codec are only invoked when a file with video encoded by a codec the DivX cannot handle is opened. This version of the FFusion codec is fully compatible with Front Row.

On PPC machines FFusion is the fastest Quicktime decoder available for many file types. This is useful on slower machines that would otherwise play back high bitrate movies with stuttering or jerky picture. The Intel version of ffusion is much slower at decoding video than the PPC version working under Rosetta. It is also slower than the Universal binary of the DivX codec for file types that both can handle.

With both this codec and the DivX codec installed there are very few movie file types in .avi, .mov or .mp4 containers that Quicktime cannot open. The DivX codec would decode DivX 3.11, 4, 5 and Xvid movies, the Apple MPEG-4 codec would handle MPEG-4 and 3ivX 4.5.1 encoded movies whereas FFusion would decode MS-MPEGv1&2 encoded movies and any movie that has been converted to a .mov file with DivX Doctor.

I found the only way I could get this b1 version and the last a1 version to stream video to my PS3 via an ethernet connection was to trash the album art preview component. If I didn't do this all I would get was a DNLA error followed by my PS3 telling me all my files were corrupted.
Also, this version automatically transcodes all .wmv files. This is a bit annoying as the PS3 is already compatible with most WMVs and I assume that transcoding them on the fly can only lead to a drop in quality. It would be better if there was an option to turn off automatic transcoding.