Upper limit of files in MediaBins?

Questions
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I was wondering if there is way to know what would be the upper limit of files in the MeidaBin that VDMX can still load on start. I know that there is no theoretical limit, but I have had VDMX crash multiple times because of too many files. 17000 is too much, so it seems 9000. How many could we squeeze in?

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Thats, a good question. I guess that would depend on your system. I’ve had over 12,000 in a project before, but it takes a while to load back up. Do you have these files in one folder or separate pages? Also, do you have pre-load media enabled (that would cause a lot of problems).

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This composition is run on an Mac Studio M1 Max 32GB from an external drive (Samsung T9). We have been able to load cca. 9000 videos consistently now. The machine runs a VCV patch, Emotiv Software a custom VUO app and VDMX has a I believe two more custom VUO patches (not the lightest). The media is divided in 17 bins with media and a few aditional bins that hold 1-4 files. We are also recording the performance on the internal drive.

And the media is NOT preloaded

At this point I wonder what are the limiting factors to load media in VDMX. IF we wanted to push it further what would we even look in for an upgrade in the machine. Looking at the activity monitor it seems that maybe more GPU cores would be beneficial. CPU cores seem to be resonably stressed, except the eficiency ones that are somehow more or less maxed at all times. RAM is suprisingly OK.

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What’s the load on your memory with all of that running? Is your machine engaging in SWAP while you are recording to the internal SSD? Also, how much free space is on the internal SSD?

Also, send in a bug report using the built in top menu “Help” > “Report Bug”

I’m curious what is crashing your VDMX when loading those files other than RAM.

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I did not have the machine crash while recording, it stalls on load up. Considering the long load up the only real indicator that the app crashes is a sudden drop in the GPU usage: from 3/4 load to 0. Today we are opening the exhibition so I can’t do a run with all the 17k videos. Is there a log of old crash reporst I could retrieve and send?

I can report that a bit more than 9000 clips will load consistently, VDMX still needs several minutes to turn on, but it does so.

We have approximately 500GB of free storage. We will consistently empty the internal drive to maximise the available storage.