An experiment with cat, Squeak and mpeg files

John Hinsley jhinsley at telinco.co.uk
Wed Dec 19 06:22:40 UTC 2001


Can anyone duplicate (or maybe even explain) this:

Get two mpeg files. See if they run OK in Squeak's mpeg player.

Join them together with cat (cat file2.mpeg>>file1.mpeg )

Open them with (say) mtvp (a popular free *nix movie player).

They (it) runs, right?

Now try and play it with Squeak's mpeg movie player (the blue one). 

On my system, Squeak locks completely. It's still on the system, the
system doesn't recognise it as a zombie, but it's completely and utterly
unreactive. 

Any idea what's happening? Are there two headers in there with Squeak
trying to read both?

No debugging info is available through the usual channels (Squeak's
locked up and the debug log shows nothing).

Cheers

John
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