We stopped being lucky about the order in which frames were processed for the writing of Quicktime movies. This fix makes it so that the list of frames will be sorted. It makes it so that writing to Quicktime from a movie from the command prompt will include the frames in alphabetical order, which is not ensured by default when we list the contents of a directory.
It turns out we were lucky on the processing order for a long time. I'm not sure if this problem occurs for non-Mac users of if luck continues to prevail for other users.
This fix does not seem to impact the order when using the Write Quicktime button in the movie player, but seems to fix things for writeQuicktime() at the command prompt.
String[] filesArray = dir.list(); // after this line of MovieWriter.java in the getFrameNames() method
Arrays.sort(filesArray); // add this line to MovieWriter.java to the getFrameNames() method
We stopped being lucky about the order in which frames were processed for the writing of Quicktime movies. This fix makes it so that the list of frames will be sorted. It makes it so that writing to Quicktime from a movie from the command prompt will include the frames in alphabetical order, which is not ensured by default when we list the contents of a directory.
It turns out we were lucky on the processing order for a long time. I'm not sure if this problem occurs for non-Mac users of if luck continues to prevail for other users.
This fix does not seem to impact the order when using the Write Quicktime button in the movie player, but seems to fix things for
writeQuicktime()at the command prompt.