Here are some updates regarding my attempts to solve the issue with my pix_film patch.
Last week, I was able to get the patch running when I made the following key change: (1) I reconverted the movie files so that they were smaller in size (the original quicktime file were approximately 300MB each, now they are 15 to 20MB each) (2) I stopped using the pdp_yqt to play the sound (I actually focused on getting the patch to run without sound) This made it so that they patch was working without sound playback. Unfortunately, when I attempted to add sound back in using a readsf~ object then the patch started to crash again. This means that the current issue is no longer related to the the pix_film object. My plan is to re-install Puredata on to the computer in question to make sure that the issue is not related to my specific install of Pd. Thanks, Julio p.s. - to Chris, thanks for pointing out that this issue seems to be coming from a quicktime function - this makes sense considering that when I reconverted the videos they seemed to wor. On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:42 PM, chris clepper <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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