[PD] "New movie might crash... ...survived"

[Thomas Ouellet Fredericks]

pix_film always crashed for me on XP when I switch movies in the same
pix_film. I consired that bug a fact of life so I created an
abstraction that creates a new pix_film for every new movie loaded.
Bonus from this method:
1. save the list of all the movies you are using for automatic reloading.
2. switch between many movies instantly.

Attached is the work in progress. I am not working on this version
anymore, another version is in the works (automaticaly reads the
movies in a directory and displays them in scrolllist for easy
selection).

Tom

On 12/10/05, Nuno Godinho <eu at nunogodinho.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here it is. This is the message I got while loading 4 films in a row (using
> 4 different pix_film objects). I believe it doesn't say much more detail. I
> hope it helps.
>
> ----------
> new movie might crash... ...survived
> GEM: pix_film: Loaded file: T:/Work/Pd/20051208VelaInteractiva/n0.avi with
> 1500 frames (720x576)
> new movie might crash... ...survived
> GEM: pix_film: Loaded file: T:/Work/Pd/20051208VelaInteractiva/n1.avi with
> 109 frames (720x576)
> new movie might crash... ...survived
> GEM: pix_film: Loaded file: T:/Work/Pd/20051208VelaInteractiva/n2.avi with
> 41 frames (720x576)
> new movie might crash... ...survived
> GEM: pix_film: Loaded file: T:/Work/Pd/20051208VelaInteractiva/n3.avi with
> 385 frames (720x576)
> -----------
>
> Bye,
> Nuno
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cgclepper at gmail.com [mailto:cgclepper at gmail.com] On
> > Behalf Of chris clepper
> > Sent: domingo, 11 de Dezembro de 2005 2:17
> > To: Nuno Godinho
> > Cc: pd-list at iem.at
> > Subject: Re: [PD] "New movie might crash... ...survived"
> >
> > Can you post all of the messages printed when you load a
> > film?  I also ran into this problem with Quicktime files on
> > Windows, and came up with a 'fix' that stops the crashing by
> > introducing a memory leak.
> > The fact that this happens with AVI indicates the problem
> > might lie outside of the Quicktime code.
> >
> > cgc
> >
> > On 12/10/05, Nuno Godinho <eu at nunogodinho.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I was wondering if someone could help me on this one.
> > >
> > > I am working with DV encoded AVI films loading them into pix_film.
> > > Everytime I load a file I get the message "new movie might crash...
> > > ...survived". And indeed loading files is extremely
> > unstable. PD does
> > > crash aprox 1 out of every 5 times I try to load a film.
> > >
> > > Why do I get this message and why does PD crash? Is it
> > because of the
> > > DV encoding? Does it say this message for every kind of film?
> > >
> > > And, since it does crash, how can I work around this
> > problem so that
> > > PD becomes more stable? I keep loosing my work everytime I
> > forget to
> > > save before testing. :(
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > Nuno
> > >
> > >
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