Re: [PD] [pix_write] crashing Pd-Extended

Thanks very much for the help patch Cyrille, I'm still having trouble with it. No matter what path (or lack of path) I specify I get something like:

GEM: Unable to save image to 'blahblah/Home/Pd_files/test100000.jpg'

Is there a reason Pd might not be able to write to my HD (Ubuntu 14.04)?

Thanks again

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Cyrille Henry ch@chnry.net wrote:

here is pix_writer help patch. cheers c

Le 23/06/2014 03:04, Richie Cyngler via Pd-list a écrit :

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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@lists.iem.at mailto:pd-list@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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