[PD] GEM pix_film crashing on OSX 10.5

[Julio Terra]

All, thank you very much for your quick replies.

I will play around with the codec to see if that improves the performance.
In regards to trying pix_movie, my initial attempts were not successful but
I will try again an save the crash reports next time.

I'm attaching a few crash reports from the last two weeks.

Here is a brief description of the issue. When running on the mac mini (full
spec details in the attachment), this patch will work for about 5 - 20
minutes then it crashes. The crash often happens all by itself (e.g. no
input is being processed by the patch at the time of the crash). What
happens is that the video in the gem window stops running, the audio stops
as well, and I am have to force quit out of PD.

Let me know if these additional details are helpful. I'll be on location
again on Wednesday to test out your recommendations.

Thanks again, Julio.




On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 6:15 PM, chris clepper <cgclepper at gmail.com> wrote:

> In your home folder there is a Library folder which contains a subfolder
> with crash logs.  There will be one for Pd in there which you can zip and
> post to the list.  That will show exactly where the crash occurs.
>
> On OSX most of the pix_film crashes come from 3rd party codecs installed
> like Perian or Divx.
>
> On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Julio Terra <julioterra at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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