so i guess at this point it is safe to assume that the problem with my memory loss comes from the quicktime. does this happen with real or any other streaming media as well? i know you mentioned avi's warren. i assume that I am not the first to fill up my movies with qt ;-) it seems like there should have been more written or discussed about this before? just kind of seems like a big issue for a newbie to stumble across?
ps. guys thanks for the diligence > ---------- > From: Howdy-Tzi > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 12:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: <lingo-l> quicktime + memory leaks > > At 11:46 -0500 02/22/2002, Colin Holgate wrote: > > >>What you did not do, though, with the optionDown, was this: > >> > >> if the optiondown then > >> sprite(1).movieRate = 0 > >> go frame 11 - the frame > >> exit > >> end if > >> > >>You see? > > > >Of course I knew that (you knew that I knew that you knew I knew). > > I knew that you knew that I knew that you knew that I knew. You know. > > >My test allowed me to see if there was a difference between playing > >and not playing. Your script is a potential work around (that > >happens not to work). > > OK, so much for that plan. I guess the next idea would be to either > rewind the movie to its beginning or make it jump to the end before > leaving the frame. > > >I really did mean 25 megabyte. I don't care if freebytes takes a few > >k of its own. > > I knew that too. ;) > > That Director keeps such stuff stored for a while sort of helps > explain what happened to me with Dir7 on WinNT -- when I had DV files > (actually an AVI) playing as a MIAW, if the window closed while the > DV was playing I got a crash every time. Pausing or stopping playback > *before* closing the window prevented it. I guess it might be a > related issue we're seeing here with memory in general. > > I wonder if it might not hurt to wishlist a keyword that does for DV > what clearCache does for net stuff or unloadMember does for cast > files. > > -- > > Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ > Director help | Free files | Sample chapters | Freelance | Consulting > Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide > Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill > http://www.osborne.com/indexes/beginners_guides.shtml > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to > http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L > is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
