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can blockbuster/smtools please support ppm?

Original comment by: wealthychef1

using cuefile-bug.cues, playing manhattan cue then langer cue results in langer going to end of movie incorrectly

Original comment by: wealthychef1

You cannot give a sequence of images for blockbuster to play. That seems like a bug, although I’ve never seen it done before.

Original comment by: wealthychef1

X,Y position, X,Y stretch, aspect ratio, pan and zoom set on command line do not work

Original comment by: wealthychef1

title says it all — only on SCF, though…?

Original comment by: wealthychef1

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—currently you cannot set the port that blockbuster listens on. Thus, only one copy of blockbuster can listen for incoming connections at a time.
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Original comment by: wealthychef1

It is too difficult for users to run blockbuster then connect with sidecar, and it’s insecure to boot.

Original comment by: wealthychef1

A cue that tells blockbuster to load a movie that doesn’t exist results in the movie being ignored but the rest of the cue being executed. This seems like a bug, albeit pretty mild.

Original comment by: wealthychef1

— no authentication or check is done to make sure that a connection from sidecar is from you! Somebody else could come in and nefariously amuse themselves by controlling your movie.

Original comment by: wealthychef1

If you set fps in sidecar, blockbuster obeys, but GUI in blockbuster does not change to reflect new framerate.

Original comment by: wealthychef1

If the master crashes, the slaves never realize it and are not reaped.

Original comment by: wealthychef1

I am running the lastest version of blockbuster on top of
DMX. I’m running on a 3×3 tiled display, with
Operton64 machines running RH WS 3 underneath.

The problem I’m encountering is a semi-reoccurring
problem with tiles going “grey” during blockbuster
playback. All of the tiles start properly, and the
animation starts, then, randomly, one of the tiles will go
grey. It’s not a blanktime/screensaver issue.

If I stop and restart blockbuster, it may work fine, or a
different tile will eventually go grey. It’s as if
blockbuster loses communication with one of the tiles
and drops it out.

Any ideas?

Original comment by: rca19

Go To Frame not working in Sidecar?

Original comment by: wealthychef1

At some point this was true. Is it still?
from command line, -L 2 -P does not work correctly, but -l 1 -P does

Original comment by: wealthychef1

if it’s at the end of the movie after playing uninterrupted to the end, then -20 and -25% bring back to beginning, unless it has been stopped at some point.

Original comment by: wealthychef1

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- improper frame syncing - implement frame sync over MPI? use netlogger to understand?
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Original comment by: wealthychef1

If a cuefile with a bad movie in it is executed, then on the next good cue, the slaves tend to get stuck in a non-swapping state for some reason. This renders blockbuster unusable until it is killed and restarted.

Original comment by: wealthychef1

add “set background color” feature

Original comment by: wealthychef1

Some movies have a preferred framerate stored in them as reported by sminfo. Blockbuster ignores this rate.

Original comment by: wealthychef1

if the controls are hidden, then it loops regardless. if controls not, then it loops properly

Original comment by: wealthychef1

This are debug cruft.

Original comment by: wealthychef1

62billion atom simulation movie, 5.4GB, causes blockbuster to exit with bizarre error about seeking to a nonexistent frame.

Original comment by: wealthychef1

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— when opening a movie that you don’t have permissions for, blockbuster often (but not always) exits abruptly
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Original comment by: wealthychef1

Example: if a file is not found on one of the backend nodes, then blockbuster exits with an extreme lack of grace. Need better error handling?

Original comment by: wealthychef1

When blockbuster opens non-stereo movie after starting up in gl stereo mode, the movie is hosed due to dual-buffering.

Original comment by: wealthychef1

reproducer:
1) play movie, with looping turned off.
2) press Home key to go to beginning of movie
3) hit space key to play through. On last frame, the looping toggle is set and the movie now repeats.

Only happens with keystrokes (home/space keys), not with interface buttons.

Original comment by: wealthychef1

Scott has a big movie that will not play on the powerwall, although it plays on a console no problem.

Original comment by: wealthychef1

When starting blockbuster if there is an existing blockbuster running, the new movie might start under the old one, creating the impression that blockbuster never ran.

Original comment by: wealthychef1

When the master asks the slaves to play a movie that is unavailable on the backend file system, there is no error message and the screen just goes black.

Original comment by: wealthychef1

the library functions in smlib actually call exit(). Libraries should not call exit(), they should return error values. Sheesh.

Original comment by: wealthychef1

using relative paths to a movie does not work with DMX

Original comment by: wealthychef1

-D used to imply full screen mode, but does not any more (regression)

Original comment by: wealthychef1

img2sm now accepts pnm, but not pgm. Apparently pnm == pgm but is rgb, so img2sm makes three images out of pgm files. Requests that we modify img2sm to accept pgm files

Original comment by: wealthychef1

Add the ability to start, stop movies, etc to two blockbusters at the “same time”.

Original comment by: wealthychef1

can blockbuster/smtools please support ppm?

Original comment by: wealthychef1

I don’t think so. Sidecar “hide controls” checkbox appears to have no effect.

Original comment by: wealthychef1

The GUI is supposed to come and go with right clicking. It only comes that way, but will not go. Sidecar does have the ability to show/hide, but it does not get notified of the proper state and so showing the GUI, then choosing “toggle” from the sidecar menu doesn’t do anything the first click, until it “catches up” with blockbuster’s actual state.

Original comment by: wealthychef1

when the control window is up for blockbuster, right clicking hides it, right clicking shows it, then hides, but then it’s gone. It should be visible again but isn’t.

Original comment by: wealthychef1

blockbuster says “file too large” for /usr/dvstmp/nest/ClimateCombo.sm but it loads anyhow

Original comment by: wealthychef1

Blockbuster can sometimes hang when under the direction of sidecar. At first, we thought this was when executing cues quickly.

Original comment by: wealthychef1

Make fails on macintosh or other platforms if there are spaces in pathnames. Need quoting to protect against this

Original comment by: wealthychef1

Adding more threads makes performance worse. Blockbuster does not use 2 CPU’s on a dual-CPU box. Disk I/O is not the culprit, and taskset shows that thread affinity is also not the issue.

Need to test both threads tightly spinning to confirm they can max out the CPU.

Original comment by: wealthychef1

Blockbuster does not respect framerate set on command line — instead seems to hang and not play.
Scott tried -framerate 3 and the movie hung.

Original comment by: wealthychef1

Sean has seen that movies with very very large numbers of pixels crash due to poor memory management inimg2sm tool.

Original comment by: wealthychef1

If you launch bb with no arguments, it gives the warning “BLOCKBUSTER: ERROR: No known format could open the file ‘/usr/gapps/asciviz/blockbuster/latest/macos_104/bin/blockbuster’ – skipping”.
This is a bug.

Original comment by: wealthychef1

The ability to report to the master about slave problems exists, but is not being used to good effect.

Original comment by: wealthychef1

When blockbuster is displaying to DMX powerwall, often the framerate is reported as 0.0 during the whole time. Sometimes it does get reported. (initialization problem?)

Original comment by: wealthychef1

When sidecar sends “loop over frames,” blockbuster obeys but the loop button does not get depressed since it wasn’t clicked

Original comment by: wealthychef1

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— does move_play_backward event do anything from sidecar?
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Original comment by: wealthychef1

right clicking doesn’t hide the controls, but if they are hidden, then right-clicking does bring them back

Original comment by: wealthychef1