[PD] Unloading videos from [pix_film] and [pix_movie]

Andres Cabrera andres at geminiflux.com
Tue Jan 11 14:49:23 CET 2005


Hi all,
I currently have a large video piece setup using pd+Gem with several 
complex sections which follow one another. After about 20 minutes into 
the performance, pd starts becoming unstable, and the solution I've 
currently implemented is to split the performance in two sections, 
closing pd, and opening then the second section. (By unstable I mean 
that sometimes it crashes, and sometimes it continues, but very sluggish 
and unusable)
It seems to me that the culprits might be [pix_film] and [pix_movie]. 
I'm using these objects a lot, and when the performance has run, and I 
close pd, it exits with an error, and the only object left on the canvas 
is the subpatch that includes these objects.
So I have these questions:
-Has anyone experienced similar behaviour in large complex patches with 
separate sections?
-Is there a message that can be sent to [pix_film] and [pix_movie] that 
'frees' these objects?
-Are there programming practices that should be avoided when building 
large patches?

Cheers,
Andres

pd. I'm not posting the patch since it is very large and convoluted, and 
the problems don't occur with small patches. I'm running pd 0.37-1 and 
gem 0.888pre1 on Windows XP.





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