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JeffTucker

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Video bugs
Posted: 22 Oct 25, 17:14
 
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Just started running into an odd bug with video thumbnails. If I add a video to a project, the thumbnail initially is just a "red X" error. Save, close project, re-open project, and the thumbnail is fine. Screenshots.

ETA: This is with 38rc22
JeffTucker

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Re: Video bugs
Posted: 22 Oct 25, 17:18   in response to: JeffTucker in response to: JeffTucker
 
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Seems to be Windows only. macOS Tahoe, it's OK.
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Re: Video bugs
Posted: 22 Oct 25, 22:20   in response to: JeffTucker in response to: JeffTucker
 
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BTW, this is exceedingly random, which suggests that there's some sort of "race" condition occurring.
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Re: Video bugs
Posted: 22 Oct 25, 22:37   in response to: JeffTucker in response to: JeffTucker
 
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Now I'm having video problems when remaking older projects. If I have an MOV file, it gets processed as an MP4, but the videoPath is pointing to the MOV file in the root, rather than to slides/name.mp4. The original is not being included, so that's not there.

ETA: An MP4 source file does not produce the same error.
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Re: Video bugs
Posted: 22 Oct 25, 22:54   in response to: JeffTucker in response to: JeffTucker
 
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It's a case problem. myvideo.MOV fails, but myvideo.mov works properly,

This doesn't fix the thumbnail problem, but at least I don't get a broken album.

ETA: And myvideo.MP4 fails, but myvideo.mp4 works properly. At least it's consistent!

ETA: Sorry for all the edits, but I keep finding out new things. The case problem occurs on macOS Tahoe, as well as Windows.
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Re: Video bugs
Posted: 23 Oct 25, 00:09   in response to: JeffTucker in response to: JeffTucker
 
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Thanks for reporting. I'll look into this. So this is occurring with v38 beta only?
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Re: Video bugs
Posted: 23 Oct 25, 00:13   in response to: davidekholm in response to: davidekholm
 
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Yes, I had never seen either of these problems before. In fact, I don't think I ran into them in earlier release candidates. I don't keep all of the jalbum-core.jar files, so I can't track down which one started causing the trouble. But I'm pretty sure I would have noticed them fairly quickly - I've done a bunch of skin updates during all of this which involve a lot of test projects and regeneration of demo albums.

And I'm not sure if they both showed up at the same time - the thumbnail display glitch and the file extension case error. They may be completely unrelated.

The casing problem should be easy, since it's totally consistent, and across both platforms.
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Re: Video bugs
Posted: 23 Oct 25, 00:30   in response to: JeffTucker in response to: JeffTucker
 
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Casing problem fixed now. The glitch remains I guess
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Re: Video bugs
Posted: 23 Oct 25, 00:44   in response to: davidekholm in response to: davidekholm
 
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davidekholm wrote:
Casing problem fixed now. The glitch remains I guess

Yes, the truly bad one is gone. :)

The thumbnail glitch is purely a display problem. The album builds without complaint. It just makes you think that there's something wrong with the video, when there isn't.

In fact, a quick F5 resolves it, even after you've just added the video to the project.
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Re: Video bugs
Posted: 23 Oct 25, 00:55   in response to: JeffTucker in response to: JeffTucker
 
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Still annoying to have that glitch. Unfortunately I haven't been able to reproduce it yet.
JeffTucker

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Re: Video bugs
Posted: 23 Oct 25, 00:57   in response to: JeffTucker in response to: JeffTucker
 
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BTW, the nasty video path problem provides an illustration of "Total Validator Pro to the Rescue!" I might not have noticed it at all, but after regenerating my big "travels" album, I fed it to TV Pro, which quickly found a dozen broken links on pages. Didn't take long to track it down.

I can't say enough about how worthwhile this app is. With a pro license, I can check all 600+ pages of my skin demo site (which includes all the user manual pages) with one click, in less than a minute. And that's on an aging Dell desktop. Written in Java, too!

https://www.totalvalidator.com/

It has saved me from making any number of horrendous mistakes - it checks the HTML, the CSS, and every link.
JeffTucker

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Re: Video bugs
Posted: 26 Oct 25, 22:07   in response to: JeffTucker in response to: JeffTucker
 
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The latest jAlbum 38 release candidate seems to have vanquished this weird, remaining video glitch. :)
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