[PD] pd / crash problem

[chris clepper]

The crash is with Perian - a third party set of codecs for Quicktime.  Try
converting the clips to a codec like Photo-JPEG or Apple Intermediate and
see if that helps.

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:15 AM, henning m. lederer | visual communication &
animation <henning at led-r-r.net> wrote:

> Hello.
> With the help of my tutor Phil Archer I have coded an endless- loop
> pd-patch which is playing randomly a movie clip out of 50 different
> Quicktime-films, selecting a new random clip one after each other, playing
> the film fullscreen. The coding is working very well (attached picture) but
> there is a problem with the stability: the application is regularly crashing
> after about 4 to 5 minutes.
>
> I don’t know the reason, but I had a look at the activity window and there
> I could watch this: pd itself is increasing the physical storage... starting
> at about 70mb and getting bigger and bigger a new clip is chosen. When it
> reaches about 210 - 220mb after 4 or 5 minutes, the app crashes.
>
> --
>
> The Report says:
>
> Process: pd [504]
> Path:
> /Users/hml/Desktop/Channels_TV.app/Contents/Resources/Scripts/../bin/pd
> Identifier: pd
> Version: ??? (???)
> Code Type: X86 (Native)
> Parent Process: Pd-extended [501]
>
> Date/Time: 2010-06-14 09:05:46.112 +0200
> OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.3 (10D573)
> Report Version: 6
>
> Interval Since Last Report: 104758 sec
> Crashes Since Last Report: 18
> Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 16
> Anonymous UUID: DB66E35A-AF9A-41C8-AC29-6923433D8B95
>
> Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
> Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000010
> Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
>
> Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
> 0 org.perian.Perian 0x188aa92c decode_nal_units + 1228
>
> (...)
>
> Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
> eax: 0x00000010 ebx: 0x00000004 ecx: 0x00000000 edx: 0x00000010
> edi: 0x1a8cc000 esi: 0x00000000 ebp: 0xbfffce18 esp: 0xbfffc800
> ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010246 eip: 0x188b792c cs: 0x00000017
> ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037
> cr2: 0x00000010
>
> --
>
> ...and loads of other stuff.
>
> I am runninng this app on my Mac Book Pro: 3,06 GHz, Intel Core 2 Duo, 8 GB
> 1067 MHz DDR3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M with Pd version 0.41.4, GEM:
> ver: 0.91.3 ‘tigital’
>
> The Quicktime films are compressed with the animation codec, without sound,
> ratio: 1680 x 1050, playing fullscreen. But size-wise the biggest film is
> not more then 15mb; most of the films are less then 1mb.
>
> Any ideas what the problem could be?
>
> Thanks a lot and greetings from Germany,
> Henning
> --
>
> /// henning m. lederer /// visual communication&  animation
>
> /// master of digital arts /// diplom-designer [fh]
>
> /// +44 (0)7551 960 327 (uk) /// +49 (0)179 572 38 13 (germany)
>
> /// www.led-r-r.net /// henning at led-r-r.net
>
>
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