Re: Strange crashes when using media-element

That is really, really weird...i can't think of anything that could do that
- my codes adds two modules and a connection. Without the analyser, there's
nothing going in the background.

Is there a way that Chrome can tell more about that error (Failed to load
resource), as in a call stack?

And thanks for the tip about the AnimationFrame, i started with javascript
only last week so i'm unaware of quite a lot (i'm an actionscripter).

Peter

2012/7/17 Chris Wilson <cwilso@google.com>

> No, if I just add mediaelement+destination, connect them and play, it
> crashes eventually as you described.  (No analyser.)
>
> If I take that same file, write a quick code sample to create mediaelement
> node and connect to audiocontext.destination, hit play, it does not crash.
>  I can only imagine there's something else in your code that's coming in to
> play.
>
> On the analyser, BTW - I would STRONGLY advise against using setInterval.
>  You should really use requestAnimationFrame to animate.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Peter van der Noord <
> peterdunord@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I can't seem to be able to reduce the problem atm since i don't have any
>> crashes at home (where i am now). To be clear: what you're saying is that
>> you *do* have crashes with destination+mediaelement+analyser, but not
>> without the analyser.
>>
>> If that's the case then the analyser seems responsible. Since the crashes
>> come out of the blue (as in: not as a response to any user-activity) it
>> could be the setInterval i do on updateCanvas in this file...
>>
>> http://petervandernoord.nl/patchwork_js/js/modules/AnalyserModule.js
>>
>> ....but i don't see anything that could be related there. Especially not
>> with the error that Chrome gives me after a crash:
>> Failed to load resource
>> http://petervandernoord.nl/patchwork_js/audio/flim.mp3
>>
>> Apart from that, there's not much going on in my code as far as i know. I
>> will try to reduce it tomorrow at work (where i can reproduce the crash)
>>
>>
>> 2012/7/17 Chris Wilson <cwilso@google.com>
>>
>>> Hey Peter-
>>>
>>> I can confirm that I get the same behavior (with Chrome 21.0.1180.41) - but
>>> it doesn't happen when just playing the file, and when I created a simple
>>> test case playing the file through a MediaElementSourceNode, I don't see
>>> any problems.  Can you try reducing the test case down?  I can only image
>>> it's something to do with your connection code, since the creation is
>>> pretty straightforward (and I looked at that).
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Peter van der Noord <
>>> peterdunord@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm encoutering strange crashes when i showed my creation to some
>>>> colleagues at work. Actually, it crashed on every browser i tested...which
>>>> is strange because i've been working a lot on it the past days, and never
>>>> had a crash once. It appears to be a problem with the retrieval of the mp3
>>>> i imbedded in the media-element, which is strange because the
>>>> audio-tag-player seems to have buffered the whole thing. This is the error
>>>> i get:
>>>>
>>>> Failed to load resource
>>>> http://petervandernoord.nl/patchwork_js/audio/flim.mp3
>>>>
>>>> I have no idea what's going on (maybe the firewall here at work, maybe
>>>> my server is crap), but i get a complete crash of the browser (the 'aw
>>>> snap!' thing), which seems a bit too much for whatever it is that's
>>>> happening.
>>>>
>>>> I can reproduce it by doing this:
>>>> - go to petervandernoord.nl/patchwork_js/
>>>> - add a mediaelement and a destination + connect
>>>> - (i usually added a analyser to the mediaelement as well, but i doubt
>>>> this has anything to do with it)
>>>> - press play on the player in the bottom
>>>> - do nothing and wait for it to crash. might take a while, but it
>>>> happened here at work *every* time, on different computers and OS (the
>>>> chrome i'm running here now is 20.0.1132.57)
>>>>
>>>> Any idea what happens here?
>>>>
>>>> regards,
>>>> Peter
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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