[PD] Segmentation Fault when loading videos

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

It could be something in the videos that you are loading causing  
crashes.  Your best bet is to convert your videos to Motion JPEG codec.

.hc

On Oct 16, 2010, at 8:45 PM, Antonio Roberts wrote:

> I've made a very simple video mixer in PD/Gem but I'm having problems
> with it. When I've loaded the videos (tried a combination of avi and
> mov files) and rendered the window after about 1 minute PD crashes
> completely with a segmentation fault: "WARNING: Child process
> terminated by signal 11"
>
> At first I thought it was because I'm using a proprietary graphics
> driver, but I disabled it and PD still crashes.
>
> I'm using pd-extended 0.42.5 on Ubuntu 10.10. System specs: Dell
> Studio 1555: Pentium Dual Core T4300(2.1GHz,800MHz,1MB), 4096MB 800MHz
> DDR2 Dual Channel, 512 MB ATI Mobility RADEON HD 4570
>
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