Thank you for you help, Dave. We can definately work around the problem now that you figured it out! This experiment is now error free (even in version 4) !!
Alright, according to my tests the issue occurs if (and only if) two or more animated GIFs are displayed at the same time (crashing the graphics driver really badly). Weird. Please feel free to test that for yourself. Note that:
- Displaying any individual GIF works fine.
- Displaying two or more video files (e.g. AVI, MPG) at the same time works fine.
The only obvious / immediate workarounds I can think of are:
- Converting the GIFs to some other video format.
- "Merge" the respective two GIF animations displayed into a single one (so you only need to display a single GIF).
no worries. Me and a colleague have been struggling with this for a couple days. Plus, i get that it IS the weekend ;>)
cheers
Thanks. Meanwhile both links trailed in via email too (just now, in fact). I'll give this a closer look ASAP, but might take a while.
I resent the email through xfiles and also tried sharing a fold with you via dropbox. Here is the link to xfiles. https://xfiles.uth.tmc.edu/xythoswfs/webui/_xy-6002524_1-t_IXwAoLyx
i sent a link to a shared dropbox folder too, in case that works easier
Nothing so far, not in spam either. Anyhow, in case the system cc'd you, can you post the link here? Alternatively just attach one of the WAV and one of the GIF files to this thread.
you should recieve the link any second now.. I just ordered a departmental license for Inquisit 4, but need to verify that all our users Inquisit 3 code will still work. So, thank you very much for helping me trouble shoot this.
I wasn't suggesting it's any individual file. Assuming the files are encoded identically, the above is exactly what is to be expected. I'm trying to narrow down the problem, hence I would like to know what happens when displaying a few of those files in a minimalistic script.
yes, of course. thanks. on it now.