[PD] [pix_write] crashing Pd-Extended

Cyrille Henry via Pd-list pd-list at lists.iem.at
Mon Jun 23 09:04:51 CEST 2014


here is pix_writer help patch.
cheers
c


Le 23/06/2014 03:04, Richie Cyngler via Pd-list a écrit :
>
> Hi IOhannes,
>
> I was referring to the message that comes with this version of Pd-X.
>  From the console: /WARNING: 64-bit builds are still beta, some libraries are known to have serious issues (cyclone, maxlib, moonlib, moocow, pdp, bsaylor, etc.) For more info, see the README.txt in '64-bit-warning-plugin' in the Help Browser/
>
> Thanks for your help I followed your instructions and found that I have both gem_imageTIFF.so and gem_imageMAGICK.so so I disabled gem_imageTIFF.so and now Pd no longer crashes however "GEM: Unable to save image..." with [pix_write]. I tried [pix_writer] but it doesn't respond to a [file <name>( or a [bang( and there is no help that I can find. Would you mind explaining how to use [pix_writer] please. Then if I can get it working I'd be happy to write a help patch for it.
>
> cheers
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 5:06 PM, IOhannes m zmölnig <pd-list at lists.iem.at <mailto:pd-list at lists.iem.at>> wrote:
>
>     On 06/18/2014 02:58 AM, Richie Cyngler via Pd-list wrote:
>      > Hi all,
>      >
>      > No matter what I try I can't get [pix_write] to do much more than create
>      > corrupted .tiffs that won't open or just crash Pd. Looks like it's missing
>      > gem.conf?
>      >
>      > open: /etc/pd/gem.conf: No such file or directory
>      > open: /home/research/.pd/gem.conf: No such file or directory
>      > open: ./gem.conf: No such file or directory
>      > pd: tif_dirwrite.c:2084: TIFFWriteDirectoryTagCheckedRational: Assertion
>      > `value>=0.0' failed.
>      > Pd: signal 6
>      >
>      > Running Pd Extended 0.43.4 64 bit on Ubuntu 14.04.
>
>      > I know the 64 bit is buggy
>
>     why? what?
>     what exactly are you referring to with "the 64th bit"?
>     how is it buggy?
>
>      > but according to my searching [pix_write] has had issues for a while?
>
>     if it does has issues with PdX-0.43.3 then it will have these issues
>     forever. i don't think anybody will make a bugfix version of this PdX
>     release ever...rather a new shiny PdX-0.45.6 might come out...
>
>     in any case:
>     - [pix_write] is deprecated in favour of [pix_writer] (which takes the
>     incoming PIX to write, rather than creating a snapshot of the current
>     framebuffer). the deprecation happened because [pix_write] is flawed by
>     design rather than any bugs.
>
>     - which imageplugins are you using? search for files called
>     "gem_image*.so" in your extra/Gem/ folder.
>     if you have both gem_imageTIFF.so and gem_imageMAGICK.so try disabling
>     one of them (just rename it to something not starting with "gem_" && not
>     ending with ".so, e.g. gem_imageTIFF.so.disabled) and see if it helps;
>     if not try disabling the other one. the MAGICK plugin should be the
>     preferred one.
>
>     fgamsdr
>     IOhannes
>
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