R: Help-octave Digest, Vol 53, Issue 5

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On the prompt of Octave ,I make the command : help -i to see informations , but 
the reply is : error "-i" not found.
What can I do to see the on line handbook?.

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>   1. Re: octave video/avi crashes - anybody have similar
>      experience? (Tatsuro MATSUOKA)
>   2. Cobra in Octave (NehaC)
>   3. wavread problem with Octave 3.2.3 (tdtodd)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 18:10:32 +0900 (JST)
>From: Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: octave video/avi crashes - anybody have similar
>       experience?
>To: address@hidden, Jordi Guti ?? rrez Hermoso
>       <address@hidden>, Kenneth Johnson <address@hidden>
>Cc: Octave-help <address@hidden>
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>Hello
>
>
>I have slightly modified the function as,
>
>%*************
>% convert3DtoAVI(File, Array)
> 
>function [] = convert3DtoAVI(filename, Wavefront)
> 
>% -- Open file and stuff frames
> 
>%OurPath = "c:\\Users\\Owner\\Documents\\Octave\\";
>%AVIName = strcat(RootName, SubName);
>%filename = strcat(OurPath, AVIName);
>printf("convert3DtoAVI: %s\n", filename);
> 
>% --
> 
>[xSize, ySize, nImages] = size(Wavefront);
>Image = Wavefront(:,:,1);
>ZeroImage = zeros(size(Image));
> 
>% -- This is the avi loop
>
>avi = avifile(filename);
> 
>% --
> 
>addframe(avi, ZeroImage);
> 
>for i = 1:nImages
>
> Image = Wavefront(:,:,i);
>% sImage = ScaleImage01(Image);
>% addframe(avi, sImage);
> addframe(avi, Image);
> 
>end
>addframe(avi, ZeroImage);
>%aviinfo(filename)
>endfunction
>%***************
>
>
>and carried out the test sometimes
>
>Wavefront=rand(128,128,128);
>filename='test.avi'
>convert3DtoAVI(filename, Wavefront);
>
>I could reproduce the crash three times. it happened not always but with a 
probability.
> I am using win XP pro sp3.
>
>One of the octave-core dump is
>
>4F 63 74 61 76 65 2D 31 2D 4C 00 08 00 00 00 2E Octave-1-L......
>6E 61 72 67 69 6E 2E 00 00 00 00 00 FF 06 00 00 nargin..........
>00 73 63 61 6C 61 72 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 40 .scalar........@
>
>
>However, I cannot reproduce error at some moments. ????
>
>Perhaps something is wrong but .....
>
>Sorry I can say any further at this moments.
>
>Regards
>
>Tatsuro
>
>
> 
>
>
>--- Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
>
>> Hello
>> 
>> >I believe Tatsuro has been doing Windows releases, but I'm not certain.
>> 
>> Benjamin Lindner is the maintainer of the current windows binaries.
>> I'm a one of the guys to working with the octave for windows.
>> 
>> But I am not directly concerning to the official release of the windows 
binaries.
>> 
>> 
>> Seeing the SVN repository,with which one can build octave by oneself (tough 
work), there found  
>> 
>> 
>> http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/octave/trunk/octave-
forge/admin/Windows/mingw32/ffmpeg/
>> 
>>  ffmpeg-0.5 seem to be used.
>> 
>> The above I can tell at the moment.
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> Tatsuro
>> 
>> 
>> --- Jordi Guti??rrez Hermoso  wrote:
>> 
>> > 2010/8/1 Kenneth Johnson 
>> > 
>> > > THe OS is windows 7.
>> > 
>> > For some reason, I didn't really assimilate the possiblity that you
>> > were using Windows. I'm afraid I know almost nothing about Windows. I
>> > believe Tatsuro has been doing Windows releases, but I'm not certain.
>> > I imagine the Windows version must ship some sort of version of ffmpeg
>> > if the video package works, so the problem is most likely an
>> > unfortunate interplay between the Octave code and the ffmpeg code.
>> 
>> > > A second symptom [...]
>> > 
>> > It is folly to try to diagnose nasal demons without at least a stack
>> > trace. I will thus refrain from doing so until hard data is available.
>> > 
>> > > I've got to think about becoming a developer again.............
>> > 
>> > It may well be the fastest way to solve this problem. I may end up
>> > solving different problems if I attempt to do so in my cozy Debian
>> > environment.
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>Message: 2
>Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 03:37:48 -0700 (PDT)
>From: NehaC <address@hidden>
>Subject: Cobra in Octave
>To: address@hidden
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>Hi Everyone, 
>
>I am extremely new with Octave and am trying to use CobraToolBox(default use
>in Matlab) in Octave. Is any body using it and can help me with the usage. 
>
>Thanks 
>Neha
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>Message: 3
>Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 07:46:42 -0700 (PDT)
>From: tdtodd <address@hidden>
>Subject: wavread problem with Octave 3.2.3
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>Hi,
>
>I'm having a problem reading a wav file and getting "error: memory exhausted
>or requested size too large for range of Octave's index type -- trying to
>return to prompt".
>
>The wav file is about 1.6MB (32-bit samples) and far below the
>octave/machine size/memory limitations. I've noticed that if I give wavread
>a second (size) argument which is larger than the number of samples in the
>file, it reads the entire file in without any problem. I guess wavread is
>having a problem reading the size of the file?
>
>Any pointers or help on this would be much appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Terry
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