Serious leak in Manager

I'm encountering what seems like a serious resource leak in Manager. If I call createPlayer() with a file that JMF can't open it instantiates a com.sun.media.content.unknown.Handler (line 1435 of Manager.java) and then calls setSource on the handler, which fails with an IncompatibleSourceException. However, the Manager doesn't then call close(), so you're left with a couple of SendEventQueue threads (one for the handler, one for its PlaybackEngine) which never go away.
I can quickly end up with hundreds and hundreds of threads like the following. Does that mean it's my responsibility to somehow ensure that JMF can open a file before I try to instantiate a player on it??
-Rolf
"JMF thread: SendEventQueue: com.sun.media.PlaybackEngine" prio=9 tid=0x00596c10 nid=0x1a36e00 in Object.wait() [0xb16f2000..0xb16f2d10]
     at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method)
     - waiting on <0x0765c6f0> (a com.sun.media.SendEventQueue)
     at java.lang.Object.wait(Object.java:474)
     at com.sun.media.util.ThreadedEventQueue.dispatchEvents(ThreadedEventQueue.java:50)
     - locked <0x0765c6f0> (a com.sun.media.SendEventQueue)
     at com.sun.media.util.ThreadedEventQueue.run(ThreadedEventQueue.java:92)
"JMF thread: SendEventQueue: com.sun.media.content.unknown.Handler" prio=9 tid=0x00596540 nid=0x1a53200 in Object.wait() [0xb1671000..0xb1671d10]
     at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method)
     - waiting on <0x0765c7b8> (a com.sun.media.SendEventQueue)
     at java.lang.Object.wait(Object.java:474)
     at com.sun.media.util.ThreadedEventQueue.dispatchEvents(ThreadedEventQueue.java:50)
     - locked <0x0765c7b8> (a com.sun.media.SendEventQueue)
     at com.sun.media.util.ThreadedEventQueue.run(ThreadedEventQueue.java:92)

This does
DataSource source;
// ... Try an instance a DataSource ....
source = (DataSource)protoClass.newInstance();
// ... and get it connected ....
source.setLocator(sourceLocator);
source.connect();
newPlayer = createPlayerForSource(source, UNKNOWN_CONTENT_NAME, sourceUsed);
If you don't want it to create a DataSource object you don't have control of, then handle the creation of the DataSource yourself using Manager.createDataSourcE();
which in turn does
mHandler = (MediaHandler)handlerClass.newInstance();
// ... set the DataSource on it ...
mHandler.setSource(source);
MediaHandler is probably a Player in this instance...
So, neither the data source nor the mHandler instance (which created SendEventQueue and PlaybackEngine threads in its constructor) are ever closed, and I'm left with two orphaned threads every time I try to open a file that JMF can't play!
No, you're not left with two orphaned threads.
From the API...
The threads managed by the Player or Processor are not in the thread group of the application that calls createPlayer or createProcessor. And a Player starts off in the Unrealized state, and if it throws a NoPlayerException, it will remain in an Unrealized state. Unrealized controllers use no system resources and they aren't part of the scheduling pool. They aren't hurting anything by being there.
I'd imagine that the thread group containing JMF-controlled threads will operate as a thread pool, and when you request a Player object, it'll try to see if there's one available in an Unrealized state, and if there is, use it instead of creating a new one. Or maybe they just sit there forever not taking up resources.
Regardless, it really doesn't matter. They aren't part of your thread group, they don't take up any resources, and they're probably reused... So just don't worry about them. :-)

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Sharing Single iPhoto 09 Library Among Users

I currently have my entire family iPhoto Album on a shared USB drive plugged into my Airport Extreme; my wife and I access the Album from 3 different Macs (2 wireless and 1 wired) around the house. As backup, I have my Linux box rsync the iPhoto Album to 2 disks in Raid every night.
In any case, I was wondering if anybody out there has a setup he or she would like to share; the main goals for me are:
Redundancy (in case or hardware failure)
Speed (viewing and ocassional editing)
Right now accessing the Album over WiFi is slow and somewhat acceptable, yet things are slowing down as my iPhoto Album is reaching the 50GB range.
I was thinking of keeping a local copy of the Album on each Mac and rsync-ing to a master iPhoto Album every time I open and close iPhoto through some sort of Applescript... what do you guys think?

If you use wireless to access the iPhoto Library there is little you can do to speed up the process. Setting the AE to the 5 ghz mode in the "n" mode is the fastest you can get. I don't know if you've experienced it yet or not but accessing the library wirelessly subjects the library to dropouts while accessing the writing to the library's database file. This, in turn, can corrupt the library. For this reason it's strongly recommended you keep a current backup of the library. One way is to use a backup application like Synk Standard which can do incremental backups, i.e. backing up only those files which are new or changed. Run this type of backup after every session in the library where additions and changes have been made. This, along with the hourly Time Machine backups, will put you in a good position.
I was thinking of keeping a local copy of the Album on each Mac and rsync-ing to a master iPhoto Album every time I open and close iPhoto through some sort of Applescript... what do you guys think?
This can't be done because you can't sync the contents of the database files, only the entire file itself. If you want to keep a master library and have individual libraries on each Mac then you could use the paid version of iPhoto Library Manager to copy newly added photos from each library to the master library.
If you're serious about multiuser managing of your photos I suggest you look into one of the DAM (digital asset management) applications that are multiuser capable. The one I use isMedia Expression. You can find out about other such apps at The DAM Forum.

Photo Collage - Which Product?

Morning All!
There was a special offer here with Groupon for printed canvasas, I've stocked up as there were a couple of images I always wanted blown up to +/- A1 size. However, I bought more than I needed. With the couple I have left, my plan is to create a collage of photos from my collection and then have it printed.
My question is, what software package is best for this? We had a professional photo shoot done a couple of months ago, and the photographer used Lightroom when we he was displaying the pictures for us to choose, and I presume that this would also have been used for the editing and creating the collage?
I'm not after anything fancy, just something that is realitvely easy to use, and let's me drag and drop them into a template. photos are all in either 16:9 or 6:4 ratio, and my plan was to have just simple rows of photos going along?
If the software was easy to use, then I might consider making some photos slightly bigger, etc, etc.
Attached, an idea of what I'm looking for.
Is Lightroom 3 what I want?

Picasa is free and easy to use and includes a flexible and quite powerful collage funciton which should have options enough to suit your idea. I can't say that the learning curve of LR is worth it for your initial requirement but if you want to get serious about picture managament that's a different matter.

Referenced or not?

are there any differences in speed or security having referenced master vs locally stored? (i have dedicated ext drive for pics so i dont move them and let A2 do all the managing etc)

Thnxz Allen!
Workflow tips/discussion
ok going for 45 GB of metadata-lesss cans tonight;
-i'll keyword as early as possible already before import by lightly organizing the folder structure and according to image names and dates (when possible).
-after initial deletion of recurencies and filtering of .psd layered versions ill probably cut some 2GB
then
A) i do some heavy organizing on the 22" in a double finder window so that a good folder structure gets built up and then import a couple of large folders as projects into A2
OR
B) i'll let A2 do all of that by just importing the huge folder in a couple of chunks. all referenced of course. ill find obvious rejects-trash those. use A2 to sort all remaining pics by dates and then let it somehow reorganize my initial huge scan folder/subfolders??? Anyone done that?
OR
C) nevermind the reorganizing of the scan folders in finder etc - after all, that's what a2 aimes at - fast and rugged referencing and so on. just keyword, import the huge thing for a couple of nights and leave it all be? ...and play in a2 - leaving all original somewhat disorganized scan folders rest on the ext hd and not bother???
i feel like I'm going to therapy and cleaing up old sins having those scans with photos from 80s and onward - scanned on different scanners (as those became better and faster) with different resolutions and settings - all those **** pics haunt me after so much invested in them in the first place. Had i known then that digital slrs and serious digital asset management would hit us this well - I wouldn't have tossed developing tanks in the darkroom to increase grain on the BW negatives - i'd just use some grain filter over a 32" Cinema display
I just reasure myself that this is hopefully the last time of my life that i have 45GB of tiffs without meta data such as DATE, CAMERA MODEL, LENS, APERTUUUUUURE...
cheers i'll be here all night and tomorrow night aswell - eventually checking in on posts like "I lost my whole A2 library - any tips?"
Haha!
/Dom

IPod / iPhone / iPad (Store issue)

I would like to suggest adding a tab or an option to view which applications you have previously downloaded and/or purchased within the iTunes app store and on our iPod, iPhone, iPad, or even mac computers.
This would not only help us "consumers" (life-long beta testers) troubleshoot issues with missing apps after an iOS upgrade, reset or some other foreign issue, but help us track our purchases and finances. Having to sniff out and search for this information is time consuming and frustrating.

Apple implemented my suggestion as outlined above for these devices. However, needs modification. Those modifications to be able to select multiple applications that were purchased for the user to either re-download or delete from history. A similar option within iTunes. Though iTunes needs a serious overhaul to manage idevices better!

Simple webservise with terminal

can anyone point to a simple exmple of web-services that uses a terminal?
public static void main(String args[])
thanks

zergu wrote:pacman -S yakuake?
madhatter wrote:I wrote it because I don't like the available standalone solutions
bender02 wrote:I need to put "sleep 1" after running the terminal and before calling wmctrl, since otherwise when wmctrl is called, the window doesn't exist yet.
Ah, didn't thought about that - my PC is too fast
bender02 wrote:The second thing is more serious: the window manager (tried with kwin and e16) seems to ignore the hidden flag - the window never hides.
Maybe they don't support that, I don't know how much they are EWMH compatible - works with openbox though

Serious leak in Manager

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