Compressord crashes when converting .motn files

Question

Hi All -
SO I frequently pass Compressor render jobs via the command line to convert .motn files (Motion) to Animation Codec. There are about 10 templates, all very simple, the only thing that ever changes is the text.
This will work many times in a row, with all the templates, until compressord crashes even once, then it will crash again and again until the machine is restarted.
Anybody else seeing anything like this, or crashlogs like this one?
CK
Here is the crashed thread from the crashlog:
Thread 5 Crashed:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92ba4620 strcmp + 80
1 com.apple.ozone.framework 0x04945957 OZGraphics::createRenderer(unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned int) + 151
2 com.apple.ozone.framework 0x04dc04af -[OZFXPlugHost init] + 125
3 com.apple.fxplugframework 0x017cd5b4 +[FxHost host] + 69
4 com.apple.ozone.framework 0x04a12174 OZApplication::ScanPlugins(PCString*) + 524
5 com.apple.ozone.framework 0x0495d726 OZApplication::initialize(PCString*) + 10160
6 com.apple.ozone.framework 0x04c9f415 OZXInitializeWithPath + 187
7 Motion 0x013d2540 initializeWithPath(__CFString const*) + 1486
8 Motion 0x013d26f3 OZXInitializeWithPath + 279
9 Motion 0x013d2817 OZXInitialize + 97
10 com.apple.motion.component 0x01386d50 OZQTImportComponentDispatch + 322
11 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9509d5ea CallComponentFunctionCommon + 1494
12 com.apple.motion.component 0x01386c86 OZQTImportComponentDispatch + 120
13 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9509cef5 CallComponentDispatch + 29
14 com.apple.QuickTime 0x94484ff9 MovieImportDataRef + 91
15 com.apple.motion.component 0x01386b42 OZQTCodecComponentDispatch + 1309
16 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9509d5ea CallComponentFunctionCommon + 1494
17 com.apple.motion.component 0x01386c86 OZQTImportComponentDispatch + 120
18 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9509cef5 CallComponentDispatch + 29
19 com.apple.QuickTime 0x945c5b39 MovieImportFile + 85
20 com.apple.QuickTime 0x945c5a15 newMovieFromFileFromComponent + 1322
21 com.apple.QuickTime 0x9456be4a getNewMovieFromFileUsingImporters + 2088
22 com.apple.QuickTime 0x9456b194 NewMovieFromFilePriv + 811
23 com.apple.QuickTime 0x9446e328 NewMovieFromDataRefPriv_priv + 3356
24 com.apple.QuickTime 0x9446c222 NewMovieFromProperties_priv + 1940
25 com.apple.AECore 0x001a0cfd aecore::CMovieInstance::CMovieInstance(CURLRef const&, bool, long, bool) + 799
26 com.apple.AECore 0x001a6007 CQuickTimeMedia::CQuickTimeMedia(CURLRef const&) + 311
27 com.apple.AECore 0x001a7072 aecore::CVideoUtilities::CMedia::New(CURLRef const&) + 264
28 ...apple.compressor.StompTypes 0x00678009 stomp::CMediaExtended::New(CURLRef const&) + 157
29 ...pple.compressor.transcoding 0x007932ba stomp::CStompTranscoder::_preProcessRequest(swamp::IServiceRequestRef const&) + 2878
30 ...pple.qmaster.ServiceControl 0x00c37c9c swamp::CServiceControllerThread::runOnce() + 2090
31 com.apple.AECore 0x0018efd4 aecore::CThread::runThread() + 34
32 com.apple.AECore 0x0018c681 threadProc(void*) + 17
33 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92bcc075 pthreadstart + 321
34 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92bcbf32 thread_start + 34

Answer 1

This is what the crash log reads:
Exception: EXCBADINSTRUCTION (0x0002)
Code[0]: 0x00000002
Code[1]: 0x00e7008c
I found one other reference to this problem with the same codes doing a Google search. Unfortunately, the thread (at http://www.macuser.de/forum/archive/index.php/t-147434.html) was in German , and I don't speak German! But I did notice that the srr0 code was the same too, and that the person was trying to use Acrobat Distiller to make pdfs. So there is a common problem here.
Here's the rest ....
Thread 0 Crashed:
Thread 1:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9004aa08 syscallthreadswitch + 8
1 com.apple.Foundation 0x92bfb5dc +[NSThread sleepUntilDate:] + 152
2 com.apple.AppKit 0x93863a10 -[NSUIHeartBeat _heartBeatThread:] + 1100
3 com.apple.Foundation 0x92be31a0 forkThreadForFunction + 108
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002c0a8 pthreadbody + 96
Thread 0 crashed with PPC Thread State 64:
srr0: 0x0000000000e7008c srr1: 0x000000000208f930 vrsave: 0x0000000000000000
cr: 0x44222448 xer: 0x0000000000000004 lr: 0x0000000000e7008f ctr: 0x0000000000000000
r0: 0x0000000000e7008f r1: 0x00000000bfffbee0 r2: 0x00000000bfffc02f r3: 0x0000000000000000
r4: 0x00000000046dd4ce r5: 0x0000000000000166 r6: 0x000000000000002f r7: 0x0000000000000020
r8: 0x0000000000000030 r9: 0x0000000000960097 r10: 0x0000000000000060 r11: 0x0000000000000080
r12: 0x00000000bfffbfc6 r13: 0x0000000000000000 r14: 0x00000000a7829d60 r15: 0x00000000a7829fc4
r16: 0x00000000a7829d60 r17: 0x0000000020000000 r18: 0x00000000bfffc030 r19: 0x00000000bfffbfb0
r20: 0x0000000000000001 r21: 0x0000000000000000 r22: 0x00000000bfffcaa0 r23: 0x0000000000000000
r24: 0x0000000000d800d9 r25: 0x0000000000da00de r26: 0x0000000000e400e5 r27: 0x0000000000e800e9
r28: 0x0000000000ea00eb r29: 0x0000000000ec00ed r30: 0x0000000000ee00ef r31: 0x0000000000f000e2
etc., etc.
This is really annoying!
PowerBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.9)