Post the crash log which is in ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/.  I have patches that do something similar hundreds of thousands of times without crashing.   MPEG-4 is not a very good codec to use in general so try a codec like Photo-JPEG or Apple Intermediate Codec.
<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Riku Mäkinen</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:makinen.riku@gmail.com">makinen.riku@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>I´m beginner in using PD&nbsp;&nbsp;and trying to make a very simple video-<br>scratcher which would load videoclips from HD and play them in random<br>order – At least in this point. Next goal would be involving audience<br>
movement affecting which clips to load...ok I succeeded in making a<br>patch wich seems to work but it keeps crashing once in a while (Pd<br>closes suddenly). Sometimes it goes on for an hour and sometimes it<br>shuts down PD in less than minute. If someone could have
<br>a look if there´s something fundamentally wrong with the patch. I´m<br>using PD 0.40.2 extended with Intel Macbook. I was wondering if the<br>videoclips should be buffered somehow.<br><br>Riku Mäkinen<br><br>_______________________________________________
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