audio crashing

[samsc]

I use them play audio once playmode. little endian/ big endian related?
Sven

there was a little/endian big endian problem in samsc with audio tracks dragged from a cd onto the desktop. they are formatted in little endian.

this doesnt affect catalyst as quicktime handles the audio directly.

[Sven]

What can happen if aiff is not used? (I used mp3, because that's all I was given). The movies display as 100x100 dvpal, but you are saying that that's a cheat, because quicktime is only showing the 100x100, but really has 576x720?
Thanks,
Sven

[samsc]

convert the movie to aiff. dont use mp3 sound.
i dont do anything special to handle audio files.
i just noticed its unreliable in catalyst.
I think MP3 files dont like to locate to any position in the movie - using in or outpoints. they dont loop well either.

mp3 is a compressed audio format, AIFF is uncompressed.

you can use quicktime player to export an aiff file.

yes you rendered a dv-pal movie at 100x100 - but its still 3.5MB/s data rate - quicktime cheats. it doesnt actually make the movie at 100x100. it fiddles with parameters somewhere.
DV codec only support 720x576 at 25Mbps (megabits/secs) or 3.5MB/s (megabytes/sec)
all the other 620x476 pixels are still in the movie- somewhere.

either of these things may or may not have been responsible for the crash.