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Re: MCI Interface - Video Crash

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From: Pete Fraser
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 08:37
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I would guess that you are running out of resources - something that the
Win9x series of OS's is ubiquitous for doing.
You will have to check to see if this is the case - try MemProof for
resource leaq detection.

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"Mark Newland" <mark@gloryworks.com> wrote in message
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> I have an application written in Builder 3 (and compiled in Builder 5)
that
> uses TMediaPlayer class for displaying my AVIs (MPEG-2).  I have 10 MPGs
> that run sequentially forever.  Each MPG is about 30 seconds long.  After
> about 46 hours and 20 minutes.  The video window comes up  black but there
> is no output.  The application is still running because there is a
watchdog
> timer that would reboot the machine if the app hangs.  If you exit the
> program and re-run it, the window remains black (no visible output).  If
you
> reboot, everything works fine until about 46 hours and 20 minutes later.
>
> I rewrote the app under VC++ 6.0 using the mciSendCommand APIs and the
same
> thing happens.  I'm running under Win98SE, but the same thing happens in
> WinME.
>
> Any ideas?????
>
> Mark (mark@gloryworks.com)
>
>
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