[Ardour-Dev] export dialog crash

[John Rigg]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:37:16AM +0200, fons at kokkinizita.net wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 08:16:22PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 6:47 PM,  <fons at kokkinizita.net> wrote:
> >
> > > There seem to be export problems in 2.8.11 as well. All exports using
> > > resampling and/or dithering (e.g. for a CD) that I tried using 2.8.11
> > > failed, producing corrupted WAV files. You only notice afterwards when
> > > trying to use the exported file. Looking back, those exports should have
> > > taken some time and shown a progress bar, but none of them did. Exporting
> > > to floats at the original sample rate seems to work OK.
> > 
> > do you have a deterministic path to failure for the above problem?
> 
> Exporting a stereo region, resampling 48 to 44.1, 16 bit with noise shaped
> dithering. Things look as if they work (except that it happens too fast),
> but in almost all cases the resulting file is truncated at some point, and
> sndfile-info reports it as corrupted.

What happens if you make repeated attempts to export? On my system
it eventually exports correctly. It usually takes 3 to 5 attempts,
although it occasionally takes more. The actual number seems to be
fairly random.

John