Segmentation Fault

PowerVR Insider
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Just ran into an issue converting some of our texture atlases to a PVRTC4 pvr file.





The command line just returns as "Segmentation Fault: 11"





The error is sporadic it happens probably 70% of the time on 3 of our files. on most of our files it doesnt happen at all though, seems like there is some pixel configuration that is causing some instability.





here is the commandline





/Users/dave/Perforce/p4bonus_1666/CrackerAss/iPhone/PocketGodUranus/…/pvrtextool/pvrtextoolcl/macos_x86/pvrtextool -fOGLPVRTC4 -iTextureAtlasPvr4.png -oTextureAtlasPvr4 -p -pvrtcbest -yflip 0





I tried to pair down some of the options to see if it had anything to do with the pvrtc quality or y flip and it seems to happen regardless.





here are two files it seems to especially have problems with.





http://dev.boltcreative.com/pocketgod/TextureAtlasPvr2.png


http://dev.boltcreative.com/pocketgod/TextureAtlasPvr4.png





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I just confirmed that that the pvr4 image crashes not only in the mac command line, but also the gui for both mac and windows.

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Hi davecazz,

This is probably the same problem that we’ve been seeing in the pvrtc library here.

If you could email devtech@imgtec.com I can send you an updated version of the tool.

Thanks,

Tobias







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thanks, btw one thing that would be helpful, is to be able to export a decompressed image along with the pvr in the same command line statement.





since I like to have a decompressed version so I can easily check for garbage, I end up running the pvrtextool twice for each image in my build process which performs the encoding twice and takes twice as much time.





would be awesome to include -dFileName.png and have it just save off the decompressed copy when it creates the pvr file.





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Hi Dave,

Unfortunately I won’t be able to add this for our coming release, but I’ll look into adding it for a future release. This certainly makes sense as it would be useful for developers to be able to do on the fly error checking without having to call it twice, I imagine you’re not alone in doing this.

I’ve submitted a feature request into our bug tracking system under BRN35895 - this is an internal tracker, but look for this BRN in our release notes.

Thanks,

Tobias