NT bugs cleaned and variable array type functional

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/rotord/src/libavwrapper.h b/rotord/src/libavwrapper.h
index fc628c0..d6f411d 100644
--- a/rotord/src/libavwrapper.h
+++ b/rotord/src/libavwrapper.h
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ extern "C" {
 
 
 namespace libav {
-    // Some libavcodec calls are not reentrant    
+    // Some libavcodec calls are not reentrant
     void maybeInitFFMpegLib();
 
     class video_decoder
@@ -77,6 +77,13 @@ namespace libav {
                     std::cerr<<"ffmpegsource: "<<err.Buffer<<std::endl;
                     return false;
                 }
+                std::cerr<<"fetching frame: "<<wanted<<" of "<<props->NumFrames<<" error: "<<err.Buffer<<std::endl;
+                //FFMS can crash inexplicably with some long mp4 files - examples are rosetest.mp4 ninahynes.mp4
+                //whatever the problem is it survives recompressing to mp4
+                //but converting to mov solves the problem
+                //weird, are the files actually damaged?
+                //need to test on a different machine
+                //best solution might be try/catch - how is this actually used? still crashes
                 frame = FFMS_GetFrame(source, std::max(0,wanted%props->NumFrames), &err);
                 if (frame == NULL) {
                     std::cerr<<"ffmpegsource: "<<err.Buffer<<std::endl;