I’m just working on a patch the randomly plays a lot of quicktimes (320 mjpg) but it seems qtime alt has a memory leak, has anyone else experienced this? Every time it changes file the available memory drops, I need to get this to last for at least 9 hours at a time, anybody have any ideas (apart from using avi!) I’m using a mini mac to capture files into a folder,I dont have a spare pc, and I dont think macs like avi’s much at all!
uh. that’s ugly. Haven’t noticed that problem before.
You could use a watchfolder converter app that automatically converts incoming MOVs to AVIs (of course you lose time and CPU by doing so).
I read there are also other DirectShow filters for rendering Quicktimes. They might be more reliable. medialooks for example
Another possibility that comes to mind (completely untested, though) could be to use a frameserver (avisynth) to open the QT and play them back as a virtual AVI file. But perhaps you still need a QT directShow filter for that, And it might be too expensive in terms of CPU.
I looked into mov-avi on the mac, but it seems like macs just dont like avi, compressor will convert to dv or cinepak, and appartently you can use apple script to do it, but having never looked at it before it looks a bit much.
My solution has been to switch files less ofter, I can get 12 hours runtime that way, which will just about do the job!
Cat
the upcomming release supports the new quicktime alternative quicktime reader filter shipping with qt alt version >= 1.71.
please report back if that fixes your problems. i noticed though, that the new reader has trouble playing back some of my .mov files that used to work with the older reader…
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