The crash is with Perian - a third party set of codecs for Quicktime.  Try converting the clips to a codec like Photo-JPEG or Apple Intermediate and see if that helps.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:15 AM, henning m. lederer | visual communication &amp; animation <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:henning@led-r-r.net">henning@led-r-r.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hello.<br>
With the help of my tutor Phil Archer I have coded an endless- loop pd-patch which is playing randomly a movie clip out of 50 different Quicktime-films, selecting a new random clip one after each other, playing the film fullscreen. The coding is working very well (attached picture) but there is a problem with the stability: the application is regularly crashing after about 4 to 5 minutes.<br>

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I don’t know the reason, but I had a look at the activity window and there I could watch this: pd itself is increasing the physical storage... starting at about 70mb and getting bigger and bigger a new clip is chosen. When it reaches about 210 - 220mb after 4 or 5 minutes, the app crashes.<br>

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The Report says:<br>
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Process: pd [504]<br>
Path: /Users/hml/Desktop/Channels_TV.app/Contents/Resources/Scripts/../bin/pd<br>
Identifier: pd<br>
Version: ??? (???)<br>
Code Type: X86 (Native)<br>
Parent Process: Pd-extended [501]<br>
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Date/Time: 2010-06-14 09:05:46.112 +0200<br>
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.3 (10D573)<br>
Report Version: 6<br>
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Interval Since Last Report: 104758 sec<br>
Crashes Since Last Report: 18<br>
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 16<br>
Anonymous UUID: DB66E35A-AF9A-41C8-AC29-6923433D8B95<br>
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Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)<br>
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000010<br>
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread<br>
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Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread<br>
0 org.perian.Perian 0x188aa92c decode_nal_units + 1228<br>
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(...)<br>
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Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):<br>
eax: 0x00000010 ebx: 0x00000004 ecx: 0x00000000 edx: 0x00000010<br>
edi: 0x1a8cc000 esi: 0x00000000 ebp: 0xbfffce18 esp: 0xbfffc800<br>
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010246 eip: 0x188b792c cs: 0x00000017<br>
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037<br>
cr2: 0x00000010<br>
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...and loads of other stuff.<br>
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I am runninng this app on my Mac Book Pro: 3,06 GHz, Intel Core 2 Duo, 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M with Pd version 0.41.4, GEM: ver: 0.91.3 ‘tigital’<br>
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The Quicktime films are compressed with the animation codec, without sound, ratio: 1680 x 1050, playing fullscreen. But size-wise the biggest film is not more then 15mb; most of the films are less then 1mb.<br>
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Any ideas what the problem could be?<br>
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Thanks a lot and greetings from Germany,<br>
Henning<br>
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