Video Distortion - Hardware Failure?
I am experiencing some strange distortion of Flash videos on my mid-2010 17" MBP. It's a kind of random white noise (graphical only, no audio) that is always accompanied by a diagonal line. It appears to happen at random and cannot be duplicated by seeking back to the point in the video at which it first occurred. I normally use FireFox, but I also experience this issue when using Safari and it doesn't matter if I'm using the MBP display or an external monitor. What does seem to make a difference is switching back to the integrated graphics, I have yet to notice it with the Intel HD card enabled using gfxCardStatus.
The following videos show what I'm seeing, as recorded using the QuickTime screen recording feature. Has anyone else experienced this or is my NVIDIA GT330M dying?
http://youtu.be/sFlLVCsyw1k
http://youtu.be/IpgsE5j6S5U
I've known applications that stretch the hardware's capabilities, doing some odd things (Mostly around sound)
Recently I have come across a video game which take a video GPU to it's full capability with odd distorting.
I could only assume that whatever the application is requesting of the hardware, the hardware can't handle it.
Yet an identical computer running the same video game, with the same GPU worked fine.
The question I would ask, what is the difference between playing something back on FLV or VLC compared to flash/HTML5 on a web page? I could only come to the conclusion it's the hardware's response to the software's capability request.
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[root@627963 trace]# sqlplus /nolog
SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.2.0 Production on Thu Sep 12 23:18:26 2013
Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle. All rights reserved.
SQL> connect sys as sysdba;
Enter password:
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Fixed Size 2233344 bytes
Variable Size 893389824 bytes
Database Buffers 167772160 bytes
Redo Buffers 5541888 bytes
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Thu Sep 12 21:26:18 2013
Starting ORACLE instance (normal)
LICENSE_MAX_SESSION = 0
LICENSE_SESSIONS_WARNING = 0
Picked latch-free SCN scheme 3
Using LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_1 parameter default value as USE_DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST
Autotune of undo retention is turned on.
IMODE=BR
ILAT =19
LICENSE_MAX_USERS = 0
SYS auditing is disabled
Starting up:
Oracle Database 11g Express Edition Release 11.2.0.2.0 - 64bit Production.
Using parameter settings in server-side spfile /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/xe/dbs/spfileXE.ora
System parameters with non-default values:
sessions = 180
memory_target = 1G
control_files = "/u01/app/oracle/oradata/XE/control.dbf"
compatible = "11.2.0.0.0"
db_recovery_file_dest = "/u01/app/oracle/fast_recovery_area"
db_recovery_file_dest_size= 20G
undo_management = "AUTO"
undo_tablespace = "UNDOTBS1"
remote_login_passwordfile= "EXCLUSIVE"
dispatchers = "(PROTOCOL=TCP) (SERVICE=XEXDB)"
shared_servers = 4
job_queue_processes = 4
audit_file_dest = "/u01/app/oracle/admin/XE/adump"
db_name = "XE"
open_cursors = 300
diagnostic_dest = "/u01/app/oracle"
Thu Sep 12 21:26:20 2013
PMON started with pid=2, OS id=21388
Thu Sep 12 21:26:20 2013
"alert_XE.log" 342L, 17231C
Thu Sep 12 21:26:20 2013
PSP0 started with pid=3, OS id=21390
Thu Sep 12 21:26:21 2013
VKTM started with pid=4, OS id=21392
VKTM running at (100ms) precision
Thu Sep 12 21:26:21 2013
GEN0 started with pid=5, OS id=21396
Thu Sep 12 21:26:21 2013
DIAG started with pid=6, OS id=21398
Thu Sep 12 21:26:21 2013
DBRM started with pid=7, OS id=21400
Thu Sep 12 21:26:21 2013
DIA0 started with pid=8, OS id=21402
Thu Sep 12 21:26:21 2013
MMAN started with pid=9, OS id=21404
Thu Sep 12 21:26:21 2013
DBW0 started with pid=10, OS id=21406
Thu Sep 12 21:26:21 2013
DBW1 started with pid=11, OS id=21408
Thu Sep 12 21:26:21 2013
DBW2 started with pid=12, OS id=21410
Thu Sep 12 21:26:21 2013
LGWR started with pid=13, OS id=21412
Thu Sep 12 21:26:21 2013
CKPT started with pid=14, OS id=21414
Thu Sep 12 21:26:21 2013
SMON started with pid=15, OS id=21416
Thu Sep 12 21:26:21 2013
RECO started with pid=16, OS id=21418
Thu Sep 12 21:26:21 2013
RECO started with pid=16, OS id=21418
Thu Sep 12 21:26:21 2013
MMON started with pid=17, OS id=21420
starting up 1 dispatcher(s) for network address '(ADDRESS=(PARTIAL=YES)(PROTOCOL=TCP))'...
Thu Sep 12 21:26:21 2013
MMNL started with pid=18, OS id=21422
starting up 4 shared server(s) ...
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Thu Sep 12 21:26:21 2013
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Thu Sep 12 21:26:24 2013
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Sweep [inc][21793]: completed
Sweep [inc2][21794]: completed
Successful mount of redo thread 1, with mount id 2707110077
Database mounted in Exclusive Mode
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read 93 KB redo, 34 data blocks need recovery
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Mem# 0: /u01/app/oracle/fast_recovery_area/XE/onlinelog/o1_mf_1_8kxhwjco_.log
Exception [type: SIGBUS, Non-existent physical address] [ADDR:0x76FFFFF8] [PC:0x319A88A1B8, _wordcopy_bwd_dest_aligned()+280] [flags: 0x0, count: 1]
Errors in file /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/xe/XE/trace/XE_ora_21440.trc (incident=22593):
ORA-07445: exception encountered: core dump [_wordcopy_bwd_dest_aligned()+280] [SIGBUS] [ADDR:0x76FFFFF8] [PC:0x319A88A1B8] [Non-existent physical address] []
Incident details in: /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/xe/XE/incident/incdir_22593/XE_ora_21440_i22593.trc
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See Note 411.1 at My Oracle Support for error and packaging details.
Exception [type: SIGSEGV, Address not mapped to object] [ADDR:0x7C7FD5E7FFEC] [PC:0x444FE70, kcbs_dump_adv_state()+946] [flags: 0x0, count: 2]
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ORA-07445: exception encountered: core dump [kcbs_dump_adv_state()+946] [SIGSEGV] [ADDR:0x7C7FD5E7FFEC] [PC:0x444FE70] [Address not mapped to object] []
ORA-07445: exception encountered: core dump [_wordcopy_bwd_dest_aligned()+280] [SIGBUS] [ADDR:0x76FFFFF8] [PC:0x319A88A1B8] [Non-existent physical address] []
Incident details in: /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/xe/XE/incident/incdir_22594/XE_ora_21440_i22594.trc
Use ADRCI or Support Workbench to package the incident.
See Note 411.1 at My Oracle Support for error and packaging details.
Dumping diagnostic data in directory=[cdmp_20130912212627], requested by (instance=1, osid=21440), summary=[incident=22593].
Errors in file /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/xe/XE/incident/incdir_22593/XE_ora_21440_i22593.trc:
ORA-00607: Internal error occurred while making a change to a data block
ORA-00602: internal programming exception
ORA-07445: exception encountered: core dump [kcbs_dump_adv_state()+946] [SIGSEGV] [ADDR:0x7C7FD5E7FFEC] [PC:0x444FE70] [Address not mapped to object] []
ORA-07445: exception encountered: core dump [_wordcopy_bwd_dest_aligned()+280] [SIGBUS] [ADDR:0x76FFFFF8] [PC:0x319A88A1B8] [Non-existent physical address] []
PMON (ospid: 21388): terminating the instance due to error 397
System state dump requested by (instance=1, osid=21388 (PMON)), summary=[abnormal instance termination].
System State dumped to trace file /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/xe/XE/trace/XE_diag_21398.trc
Dumping diagnostic data in directory=[cdmp_20130912212628], requested by (instance=1, osid=21388 (PMON)), summary=[abnormal instance termination].
Instance terminated by PMON, pid = 21388
Thu Sep 12 21:39:03 2013
Starting ORACLE instance (normal)
LICENSE_MAX_SESSION = 0
LICENSE_SESSIONS_WARNING = 0
Picked latch-free SCN scheme 3
Using LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_1 parameter default value as USE_DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST
Autotune of undo retention is turned on.
IMODE=BR
ILAT =19
LICENSE_MAX_USERS = 0
SYS auditing is disabled
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Oracle Database 11g Express Edition Release 11.2.0.2.0 - 64bit Production.
Using parameter settings in server-side spfile /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/xe/dbs/spfileXE.ora
System parameters with non-default values:
sessions = 180
memory_target = 1G
control_files = "/u01/app/oracle/oradata/XE/control.dbf"
compatible = "11.2.0.0.0"
db_recovery_file_dest = "/u01/app/oracle/fast_recovery_area"
db_recovery_file_dest_size= 20G
undo_management = "AUTO"
undo_tablespace = "UNDOTBS1"
remote_login_passwordfile= "EXCLUSIVE"
dispatchers = "(PROTOCOL=TCP) (SERVICE=XEXDB)"
shared_servers = 4
job_queue_processes = 4
audit_file_dest = "/u01/app/oracle/admin/XE/adump"
db_name = "XE"
open_cursors = 300
diagnostic_dest = "/u01/app/oracle"
Thu Sep 12 21:39:05 2013
PMON started with pid=2, OS id=2483
Thu Sep 12 21:39:05 2013
PSP0 started with pid=3, OS id=2489
Thu Sep 12 21:39:06 2013
VKTM started with pid=4, OS id=2546
VKTM running at (100ms) precision
Thu Sep 12 21:39:06 2013
GEN0 started with pid=5, OS id=2550
Thu Sep 12 21:39:06 2013
DIAG started with pid=6, OS id=2552
Thu Sep 12 21:39:06 2013
DBRM started with pid=7, OS id=2554
Thu Sep 12 21:39:06 2013
DIA0 started with pid=8, OS id=2556
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Trace file /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/xe/XE/trace/XE_ora_21440.trc
Oracle Database 11g Express Edition Release 11.2.0.2.0 - 64bit Production
ORACLE_HOME = /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/xe
System name: Linux
Node name: <blah>
Release: 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64
Version: #1 SMP Tue Jul 16 23:51:20 UTC 2013
Machine: x86_64
Instance name: XE
Redo thread mounted by this instance: 1
Oracle process number: 24
Unix process pid: 21440, image: <blah>(TNS V1-V3)
*** 2013-09-12 21:26:25.858
*** SESSION ID:(62.3) 2013-09-12 21:26:25.858
*** CLIENT ID:() 2013-09-12 21:26:25.858
*** SERVICE NAME:() 2013-09-12 21:26:25.858
*** MODULE NAME:(<Blah> (TNS V1-V3)) 2013-09-12 21:26:25.858
*** ACTION NAME:() 2013-09-12 21:26:25.858
Thread 1 checkpoint: logseq 241, block 2, scn 8960531
cache-low rba: logseq 241, block 21190
on-disk rba: logseq 241, block 21377, scn 8979221
start recovery at logseq 241, block 21190, scn 0
*** 2013-09-12 21:26:25.869
Started writing zeroblks thread 1 seq 241 blocks 21377-21384
*** 2013-09-12 21:26:25.870
Completed writing zeroblks thread 1 seq 241
==== Redo read statistics for thread 1 ====
Total physical reads (from disk and memory): 4096Kb
-- Redo read_disk statistics --
Read rate (ASYNC): 93Kb in 0.01s => 9.13 Mb/sec
Longest record: 2Kb, moves: 0/242 (0%)
Change moves: 2/26 (7%), moved: 0Mb
Longest LWN: 8Kb, moves: 0/57 (0%), moved: 0Mb
Last redo scn: 0x0000.00890313 (8979219)
----- Recovery Hash Table Statistics ---------
Hash table buckets = 262144
Longest hash chain = 1
Average hash chain = 34/34 = 1.0
Max compares per lookup = 1
Avg compares per lookup = 377/542 = 0.7
*** 2013-09-12 21:26:25.872
KCRA: start recovery claims for 34 data blocks
*** 2013-09-12 21:26:25.873
KCRA: blocks processed = 34/34, claimed = 34, eliminated = 0
*** 2013-09-12 21:26:25.874
Recovery of Online Redo Log: Thread 1 Group 1 Seq 241 Reading mem 0
*** 2013-09-12 21:26:26.055
Exception [type: SIGBUS, Non-existent physical address] [ADDR:0x76FFFFF8] [PC:0x319A88A1B8, _wordcopy_bwd_dest_aligned()+280] [flags: 0x0, count: 1]
Incident 22593 created, dump file: /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/xe/XE/incident/incdir_22593/XE_ora_21440_i22593.trc
ORA-07445: exception encountered: core dump [_wordcopy_bwd_dest_aligned()+280] [SIGBUS] [ADDR:0x76FFFFF8] [PC:0x319A88A1B8] [Non-existent physical address] []
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I suffered a hardware failure on my Dell desktop PC, and have moved to iMac. I own Adobe creative Suite 4 Design Premium for Windows. Can I transfer the license to my new iMAC without the huge expense of buying a new license or purchasing a month to month option?
you need a cross-grade, but adobe only offers free cross-grades for current releases, Order product | Platform, language swap
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What is procedure to recover music after ipod hardware failure
My uncle's ipod had a hardware failure and died. Apple genius bar gave him an estimate for repair. But he has not repaired it yet. At that time, his music was still playable within iTunes. Then my uncle's tried to transfer music library to his daughter's PC. I do not know exactly what he did but, itunes produced a file called library.XML containing a list of his music titles along with the file paths to each item. At this point, all his music is not playable on his PC nor his daughers's PC. What was can be done with the Library.xml file? What is the purpose of library.xml. After iTunes generates library.xml, what should be done with it? My uncle wants to recover is music library. What should he do? Please help. Thank you.
columbus new boy wrote:
Hi,
Just got my new Macbook Pro, and I'm a little lost, I too don't understand how to post a new question even after reading your reply. Can you please help clarify it?
Thanks.
On the main Apple Discussions page, select MacBook Pro under Computing Hardware. There you'll find 12 individual forums each with a name and description, e.g.
Using your MacBook Pro (Late 2008 and 2009)
If your question doesn't fit in other categories.
Choose the forum where the description suits the type of question you want to ask. Just above the list of threads will be a link to *Post New Topic*, click this to proceed.
Use the subject line to give a concise description of your issue rather than something like "Help me!" as there are plenty of users who have experience with specific topics who will scan the subject lines and may ignore anything they don't immediately recognise as an area they can help with.
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IPhone hardware failure in 1 yr 2 months! Can anything be done for replacement?
I had purchased an iPhone 5 in Nov 2012 here in India (Bangalore) for ~ Rs 45,000.
However for the past few months it started crashing mysteriously. For the last few days the frequency of crash increased to 20-30 times a day (from the previous 2-3 times a week). Recently after a crash, it rebooted upto the "Recovery Mode" screen only.
I tried with the latest iTunes to do recovery but it always failed at the _end_ of writing the new software. I even tried the DFU mode, but that too fails right at the end of writing the new software. Sometimes it gave error 12 and sometimes error 9. I've tried different USB cables just to make sure there was no problem there but to no avail!
I then showed it to the Apple service center folks here (service is provided by an Apple authorised service unit - Ample) but they too were unable to fix it. They said it was a "rare" internal hardware failure. They are asking me to cough up Rs 21,000 for a replacement unit!
It's barely 2 months out of the warrannty period when the dam phone crashed. This is real poor quality of service from Apple. Is there anything I can do to get my unit replaced? Is there an escalation I can do to get someone's attention in fixing my issue?
TIA for any tips.For the first part, that does beg the question whether this is something that is more of a problem with iCloud than it is other providers, for whatever reason.
I'm not a huge fan of anecdotal "evidence" in general, but iCloud mail does seem to have the worst reputation for missing messages when compared to Gmail or even Outlook.com, at least going by a quick search. For other iCloud mail users, does this ever concern you? Any former iCloud users who left for similar reasons? -
Hardware Failure - Cannot login to Folio Builder
I was having problems with DPS App Builder - that problem was mysteriously solved.
Yesterday I had a catastrophic hardware failure when my MacBook Pro's screen died. I had to move my harddrive to a new MacBook Pro.
After moving my harddrive, I could no longer login to the Folio Builder Panel in Indesign CS6 (CC subscription). I decided to
deactivate, uninstall InDesign and reinstall, removing preferences, and ensuring that all updates had been applied. I have
done that I am still getting the message:
Sign In has failed. Network failure. Then after I hit OK, I get: Sign Out has failed. Network failure.
I can login to the Digital Publishing Suite Dashboard and the Digital Publishing Folio Producer, but I cannot
login to the Folio Buidler Panel. DPS App Builder continues to work without a problem.
It seems as if these tools are TOO TOUCHY which leads to a lot of wasted time.
What's going on?Try This:
Quit InDesign and any other CS apps.
Use the Activity Monitor to quit the CS5ServiceManager or CS5.5Service Manager.
Next delete this file based on version: (Back up the file just in case.)
Note:
For example:
/Users/"your user name"/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CS5ServiceManager/preference/csxs2.pref
/Users/"your user name"/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CS5.5ServiceManager/preference/csxs2.pref
Then remove this item from the Keychain Access based on version: Adobe CS5 renga or Adobe CS5.5 renga.
To remove from the keychain, navigate to: /Applications/Utilities and launch the Keychain Access.app
If the lock icon in the upper left appears locked, click it and enter your password to unlock it.
Select the “login” item in the Keychains list in the upper left.
Select “Passwords” from the category list.
Type “renga” in the search field in the upper right.
Lastly, select any matches and press the Delete key. -
1minute video distortion with iDVD-anybody encounter this?
I encountered a strange issue with a movie that I recently created in iDVD. Src was 1080i HD, downconverted to 720p and imported to iMHD, and then used within iDVD.
At about 53 minutes in the video (total ~1hr 40 min DVD encoded using Prof setting), there is a strange video distortion created - difficult to describe, but looks like say a 100x100 pixel movie upscaled to 720x480 with big blotches of color all over.
Src video imported to iDVD looks impeccable, and even if I recreated the DVD with diff src media at the 52minute mark, the distortion still shows up exactly for 1 minute around the 53 min (or 52.5 or 53.5 or 54 min) mark.
Really bugs me, as iDVD otherwise seems to do an OK job with the downconversion of the HD src file.
Anybody seen this odd behavior with iDVD? BTW, I burn to disc image, and both the image as well as the DVD show identical distortion at the same spot.Bengt,
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll try trashing the iDVD pref file and re-do the disc image. I've already had to trash the iMovie pref file several times due to another bug there - I seem to have hit some max limit on # of cutaways+PIP inserts and it doesn't allow me to add another cutaway/PIP -- but that will have to be a different thread!
The file formats are the same throughout the movie - mixed HDV 1080i + AVCHD 1080i - and they are both downconverted to 720p using the native HD output format from iM09. All orig source and the 720p files look great without any artifacts. However, only the 1 min section as mentioned before has these really ugly blotchy artifacts when output from iDVD to 480i.
Unfortunately, I got the same artifacts/distortion at about the same point in the movie even if I tried a different iDVD theme (same movie length) or tried the output to Vid-TS folders...:-( This seems to point to a bug in the internal conversion to VOB...
I'll try your suggestion next - to trash iDVD pref and re-do the disc image again.
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A hardware failure could cause applications to crash?
hi
A hardware failure could cause applications to crash ??stack in respring during a safari work
its iPhone 4..all the time crashing ...any idea will be gladly accepted..
it is not jailbroken. it is not a recovery thing. . i did a clean Restore without a Restor from backup? Version 6.0.1 ... Is there anything hardware-based Wide that could cause such phenomena?? What element or antenna or chip can do this ?. I'm really desperate I have never met such a bug.
thanksA hardware failure could cause applications to crash?
hi
A hardware failure could cause applications to crash ??stack in respring during a safari work
its iPhone 4..all the time crashing ...any idea will be gladly accepted..
it is not jailbroken. it is not a recovery thing. . i did a clean Restore without a Restor from backup? Version 6.0.1 ... Is there anything hardware-based Wide that could cause such phenomena?? What element or antenna or chip can do this ?. I'm really desperate I have never met such a bug.
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Help! Strange video distortion after importing film onto IPHONE.
So I used Compressor H.264 to create an .m4v file to play my film on an IPhone. For the most part it sounds and looks great. But in two separate spots this weird video distortion occurs in a part of the frame. It's like these large squares of video appear for a second or two, then disappear. The really strange part is that it's always in the same two spots. I tried re-compressing the file thinking it mignt be a problem in the pressing. Watching the files on my comp using Itunes or Quicktime player there is no distortion. But once the movie is synced onto the Iphone it's always the same result. Those wierd digital shifting cubes pop up at the exact same two spots. No matter how many times I re-compress. Any ideas? I'm at a loss and I gotta figure this out in the next few hours.
Here is an article from the apple support website that might help out.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1211
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1425?viewlocale=en_US -
Directory cannot be rebuilt due to Disk hardware failure (-36, 2286 )
Hello everybody,
my macbook was running slower and slower until it became unusable.
I have restarted the macbook with system DVD and run harddisk utilities from the DVD :
- First diagnostic : directory damaged, error on knot, cannot be repaired by this program.
I tried to put the disk in target mode but it was impossible to mount it on the desk.
-Then I tried with DiskWarrior utilities and got the message : Directory cannot be rebuilt due to Disk hardware failure (-36, 2286 )
Does anybody knows what it means ?
If disk has to be changed what brand would be the best suited.
Any advice on this issue will be more than welcome
Best regards from France
Jean Claude*Many thanks* Templeton Peck for your help.
I am going to replace the disk but all the work of the last four days will be lost, kinf of hard to swallow on a machine bought a little more than a year ago !
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