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Article #971Re: MCI Interface - Video Crash
From: Pete Fraser
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 08:37
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. -- Rgds Pete GenHelp: The Component Writers Help Authoring package ================================= Web: www.frasersoft.net "Mark Newland" <mark@gloryworks.com> wrote in message news:3c8d7464$1_1@dnews... > 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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