openframeworks/openFrameworks — Issue #855: video Grabber crashes with Flip4Mac
Author: roymacdonald
Created: 2011-12-29 04:43:24+00:00
State: open

Today I came across this strange bug.
Any OF app that needed to use the quicktime video grabber crashed at startup when the this was launched from xcode (eg. using build and run) yet it worked correctly when I opened the compiled app by doubleclicking it.

The error thrown was a EXCBADACCESS.
the function that threw this was ACWma1DecoderEntry

Just some googling and I found that it had to do with Flip4Mac quicktime component.
I uninstalled it and problem gone.

The strange thing is that I've had installed Flip4Mac since long ago, yet I updated iTunes a few days ago, that might have done this problem to arise.

I don't know if this is actually an OF bug from its Quicktime implementation or what ever but it was really annoying getting across with it. Hope this helps others.

Cheers!