[PD] pd_film: intensive use crashes PD

[Jack]

OK.
Do you have a crash when you open your movies with the help patch  
[pix_film] ?
(help > Browser > 5.Reference > Gem > pix_film-help.pd).
If not, can you try to use 6 [pix_film] here, one by movie ?
++

Jack


Le 12 juin 09 à 18:56, Daniel Almeida a écrit :

> OSX - 10.5.7
> PD - pd-extended 0.40.3
> gem - I don't have a clue. How can I see it?
>
> What happens is the following:
> I have two layers, each with one pix_filme.
> I can open 3 movies per layer. And I can also bypass a pix_film.  
> When we have a notein I open a movie, when I have a noteout I  
> bypass the pixfilm.
> I'm currently using a 140 BPM tempo with a 1/4 division, so I have  
> pretty fast noteins. I'm thinking the problem is too much file  
> openings.
>
> THanks for any help
>
> Daniel
>
> --- On Fri, 6/12/09, Jack <jack at rybn.org> wrote:
>
> From: Jack <jack at rybn.org>
> Subject: Re: [PD] pd_film: intensive use crashes PD
> To: "Daniel Almeida" <int86 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: Pd-list at iem.at
> Date: Friday, June 12, 2009, 5:38 PM
>
> Can you give us : your OS, your PdX version , your GEM version ?
> Pd (with [pix_film)]crash with every movies ?
> ++
>
> Jack
>
>
> Le 12 juin 09 à 09:31, Daniel Almeida a écrit :
>
>> Sory, I meant pix_film instead of pd_film
>>
>> --- On Fri, 6/12/09, Daniel Almeida <int86 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: Daniel Almeida <int86 at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: [PD] pd_film: intensive use crashes PD
>> To: Pd-list at iem.at
>> Date: Friday, June 12, 2009, 8:20 AM
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm making an application to trigger videos using MIDI. I'm coding  
>> the MIDI in Ableton Live and sending it through a MIDI loop on my  
>> soundcard.
>>
>> I have two video channels and each has it's on pix_film to show  
>> every video for it's layer. Everytime a midi key is pressed, a  
>> file is opened. This causes PD to crash after a few minutes. Does  
>> anyone has an idea how to go around this situation?
>>
>> I think the best solution would be to have an array of all videos  
>> used in each layer, opened at launch. This might not be the best  
>> way because I might get a lot of videos and run out of memory  
>> (let's not forget I'm running Live at the same time).
>>
>> Another solution could be to check if I'm pressing the same midi  
>> key so I won't have to load the video again. This might help me  
>> make the video loading less intensive.
>>
>> Any ideas on how to get this thing going?
>>
>> Daniel Almeida
>>
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