[PD] GEM pix_film crashing on OSX 10.5

[Marco Donnarumma]

[pix_film] is well known for this kind of crash-y issues.

It might depends on the codec you use (i.e. different codecs are installed
on MacMini)

However, have you tried using [pix_movie] instead?

In my experience it's more reliable.


M






> I?ve been working trying to fix a Puredata patch that uses MIDI input from
> an external device to control playback of 2 movies that are displayed in a
> single GEM window. I have been able to get the patch working properly on my
> own computer (a 2.53GHz MacBook Pro with OSX 10.6.3) but can?t get it to
> work on the computer where the patch needs to run (a 1.66GHz MacMini with
> OSX 10.5).
>
> I?ve read through the forums and archives and based on the input I have
> created several version of the patch (all of them have crashed on the
> MacMini). I couldn?t find any instance of a bug report documenting this
> issue so I decided to add it here.
>
> I?ve posted my code, two different approaches each with the associated full
> crash reports. In the first approach I use two separate Gemheads to control
> the movies; in the second approach I use a single Gemhead to control both
> movies.
>
> Please note that the download is quite large (100MB). The reason being, I
> have included videos in the zip files so that the application can run
> properly. One more important note, you need to install pdmtl in order to
> run
> the patch (as I use one of their abstractions in my patches).
>
> Link to code and crash reports:
> http://itp.nyu.edu/~jt1428/downloads/gem_issue/see-saw-examples.zip<http://itp.nyu.edu/%7Ejt1428/downloads/gem_issue/see-saw-examples.zip>
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>



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