[PD] Stupid mistake

[chris clepper]

>Hello everyone,
>
>I made the mistake of opening a very large movie file with PD, for 
>the next 5 minutes, all I could do was watch as PD displayed error 
>messages.

You mean you opened a Quicktime file as a patch?  I've done this 
before and it's never a good thing.

>Short of having to be responsible for my own actions, is there a was 
>to get PD to abort the opening of a file up the first error it 
>encounters? Or after a certain limit of errors? Does PD make any 
>attempt at trying to recognize file (data) types?

Pd likes to open just about any file on OSX.  I don't recall ever 
making the movie mistake on Windows or Linux, so I can't say if it 
does any file type checking on those platforms or not.

>I only ask this because it seemed to lock up my whole system, and 
>short of rebooting, patience did finally pay off...

I usually manage to ctrl-c the pd process before it eats the CPU 
opening the file.  I have noticed that the audio glitch 'fix' can 
make the GUI grind to a halt now, so the combination of opening the 
1GB file and in a high priority thread could be even worse.  Maybe 
someone needs to double check that pthread code...

cgc

>Thanks,
>
>Mike
>
>
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