[PD] GEM pix_film crashing on OSX 10.5

[chris clepper]

Unfortunately, those crash logs don't help much as the crash comes inside a
very basic Quicktime function.  Maybe it is a QT bug.

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 2:53 AM, Julio Terra <julioterra at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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