Re: [Libvisual-devel] possible bug in gforce

[salsaman <sal...@xs...>]

salsaman wrote:

> Dennis Smit wrote:
>
>> All these crashes seem to happen in the Arena 'waveshape'
>>
>> Could you try to remove it aand see if the crashes stop.
>>
>> I can't realy debug it from here. (I''' m not home) (
>> and my VNC connection is way borked)
>>
>> Wha resolution areeeeeee you using btw ?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dennis
>>
>>  
>>
> Ah yes, I missed that. Removing that waveshape does indeed seem to 
> stop the hangs.
>
> I've also found the cause of the problem which has been giving me 
> problems for the last 3 days. It seems that if LiVES starts audio 
> playback using sox whilst the listener is active, then the listener is 
> never released properly. So the next time an actor is inited, the new 
> input fails and causes LiVES to crash.
>
> It took me a while to figure out what was going on, but now I've fixed 
> the problem in LiVES by always initialising generators _after_ audio 
> playback starts. I'm guessing when sox starts playing it resets the 
> sound card and messes things up. All these problems should go  away 
> if/when I get to implement the internal audio player for LiVES 
> (planned for early next year).
>
> Anyway, the latest CVS build seems very stable, provided arena is 
> removed from gforce. Just a couple of very minor issues which I'll try 
> to fix next week:
> - 'x' (swap forgeground/background) does nothing after a modeswitch 
> (ctrl-number,'k','m') : workaround - switch any transitions off and 
> back on again
> - 'k' (grab keyboard for last effect on) sometimes seems to forget the 
> last effect on after an effect is switched off
>
>
> Cheers,
> Salsaman.

Ah I should mention these issues are in LiVES, not in libvisual. It's 
just incase anybody wants to test this all out.

S.