Unfortunately, those crash logs don't help much as the crash comes inside a very basic Quicktime function. Maybe it is a QT bug.
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 2:53 AM, Julio Terra <[email protected]> wrote: > All, thank you very much for your quick replies. > > I will play around with the codec to see if that improves the performance. > In regards to trying pix_movie, my initial attempts were not successful but > I will try again an save the crash reports next time. > > I'm attaching a few crash reports from the last two weeks. > > Here is a brief description of the issue. When running on the mac mini > (full spec details in the attachment), this patch will work for about 5 - 20 > minutes then it crashes. The crash often happens all by itself (e.g. no > input is being processed by the patch at the time of the crash). What > happens is that the video in the gem window stops running, the audio stops > as well, and I am have to force quit out of PD. > > Let me know if these additional details are helpful. I'll be on location > again on Wednesday to test out your recommendations. > > Thanks again, Julio. > > > > > > On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 6:15 PM, chris clepper <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In your home folder there is a Library folder which contains a subfolder >> with crash logs. There will be one for Pd in there which you can zip and >> post to the list. That will show exactly where the crash occurs. >> >> On OSX most of the pix_film crashes come from 3rd party codecs installed >> like Perian or Divx. >> >> On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Julio Terra <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I’ve been working trying to fix a Puredata patch that uses MIDI input >>> from an external device to control playback of 2 movies that are displayed >>> in a single GEM window. I have been able to get the patch working properly >>> on my own computer (a 2.53GHz MacBook Pro with OSX 10.6.3) but can’t get it >>> to work on the computer where the patch needs to run (a 1.66GHz MacMini with >>> OSX 10.5). >>> >>> I’ve read through the forums and archives and based on the input I have >>> created several version of the patch (all of them have crashed on the >>> MacMini). I couldn’t find any instance of a bug report documenting this >>> issue so I decided to add it here. >>> >>> I’ve posted my code, two different approaches each with the associated >>> full crash reports. In the first approach I use two separate Gemheads to >>> control the movies; in the second approach I use a single Gemhead to control >>> both movies. >>> >>> Please note that the download is quite large (100MB). The reason being, I >>> have included videos in the zip files so that the application can run >>> properly. One more important note, you need to install pdmtl in order to run >>> the patch (as I use one of their abstractions in my patches). >>> >>> Link to code and crash reports: >>> http://itp.nyu.edu/~jt1428/downloads/gem_issue/see-saw-examples.zip<http://itp.nyu.edu/%7Ejt1428/downloads/gem_issue/see-saw-examples.zip> >>> >>> Any help is greatly appreciated. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> [email protected] mailing list >>> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >>> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >>> >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > >
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