memory allocation error when playing video?

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zombience

memory allocation error when playing video?

in Core Library Questions • 1 year ago

I'm often, but not consistently, getting the following error while trying to playback video:

java(1078,0xb1a39000) malloc: *** error for object 0x1e6be0: double free

*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug

I apologize for not posting code, but I am creating a presentation in Processing that's fairly large with a lot of images and files.

I tried using GSVideo, but was unable to load the video at all. I switched to processing's native video library and it seems to work most of the time.

I've opened examples from both the GSVideo library and the processing library, and they all work fine.

I'm opening a .mov file with h264 encoding.

Any way I can work around this?

Thank you

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PhiLho

Re: memory allocation error when playing video?

1 year ago

It is an error in the native library (ie. non-Java, written in C or C++) reading the video. Perhaps because of a bug, perhaps because of an issue with your video.
I fear we cannot do much to fix this...

zombience

Re: memory allocation error when playing video?

1 year ago

Ah, ok. I've been having problems with GSVideo, but I'll poke around more with that library in order to hopefully solve this.

Thanks

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andres

Re: memory allocation error when playing video?

1 year ago

I'd recommend transcoding your video to another format such as xvid... I have also experienced random issues playing h264 videos, I think it is due to a buggy h264 decoder used by gstreamer.

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