MPEG Plugin in MacOS X Carbon

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Mon Jul 9 16:44:41 UTC 2001


Make doubly sure your MPEG is okay.  If the MPEG is invalid, the libmpeg
used by the plugin will inform the color by modifying random parts of
memory.  This in turn can be detected as a protection violation.  So
maybe the plugin is working just like it always does.  :)

Lex


Russell Allen <russell.allen at firebirdmedia.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Using the mpeg plugin for mac v 1.1 and a fully updated 3.1a image, I
> either get an error "Primative failed" (under the 3.0.18 Carbon VM) or
> Squeak blows up with a Type 2 Error (3.0.18 Mac VM).
> 
> Is there any way to get the MPEG stuff working under OS X (or failing
> that, under OS 9.1)?
> 
> Or is it just me doing something wrong as usual? :)
> 
> Russell
> 
> 
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> Russell Allen
> 
> russell.allen at firebirdmedia.com
> 
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