render crash test

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1

hi
I wanted to make a crash test for the render function so I created a HD 1080i 60 frames animation and tried to render it to .mpg format. But instead of crashing it creates a 5 second .mpg movie without any content. What am I doing wrong?

2

Hi!
Can you share the sample file to try to render in other computer? I don’t have idea of what’s the reason for the empty file.
-G

3

sure
the names of the layers are in german though

EDIT:
Btw it does create a 1.6 MB file. It’s just not playable. And if I try to play it with VLC (which usually plays everything) It does have the right length, it just hasn’t any content.
gooboy hey.sifz (3.25 KB)

4

youtu.be/vfPJB6Wnn1M
Here is the result of render it with the following command:

synfig.exe gooboy_hey.sifz -t ffmpeg -vc mpeg4 -vb 6000 -o gooboy_hey.avi

I did it in a Windows XP machine with 1 GB ram and 0.63.00 version.
I haven’t had any problem to render it with the command line interface. I strongly reccomend to don’t perform long renders with the GUI because it is better to make it in a separated thread.
Also, png sequence render is alwys safer than directly to ffmpeg because in case of problem you can start over from the latest frame rendered correctly.
-G

5

problems solved
I was missing some libraries
thanks anyways
just a suggestion tough, it would be nice to have a render dialog showing the progress and possible errors
also ogg format support