Crashing Randomly on Compile [Sound.hx:118: Error]

[Pizzamakesgames]

Hey there!

I've been having this issue ever since I've started using Haxeflixel, so it's nothing new to me, but it's starting to get irritating.

Every say like 5th compile, the game will crash and the log will show this:

Build succeeded
Done(0)
haxelib run lime run "Project.xml" neko -debug
Running process: D:\hyperdev\haxe\haxe\haxelib.exe run lime run "Project.xml" neko -debug
Sound.hx:118: Error: Could not load "assets/music/SnowPath_nonproperloop.ogg"
AL lib: (EE) MMDevApiOpenPlayback: Device init failed: 0x80004005
Invalid operation (/)
Called from flixel.system.FlxSound::update line 241
Called from flixel.system.frontEnds.SoundFrontEnd::update line 273
Called from flixel.FlxGame::update line 696
Called from flixel.FlxGame::step line 648
Called from flixel.FlxGame::onEnterFrame line 493
Called from openfl._legacy.events.EventDispatcher::dispatchEvent line 98
Called from openfl._legacy.display.DisplayObject::__dispatchEvent line 182
Called from openfl._legacy.display.DisplayObject::__broadcast line 161
Called from openfl._legacy.display.DisplayObjectContainer::__broadcast line 280
Called from openfl._legacy.display.Stage::__render line 1103
Called from openfl._legacy.display.Stage::__checkRender line 351
Called from openfl._legacy.display.Stage::__pollTimers line 1084
Called from openfl._legacy.display.Stage::__doProcessStageEvent line 430
Done(1)

Is this problem known? The file is definitely not the .ogg file as it'll just work if I try compiling again without changing anything.

[Andrei Regiani]

>Is this problem known?
No

Try to build with -Dnext

lime test neko -debug -Dnext

Also, post your versions

haxelib list

'next' refers to OpenFL backend, the current version of HaxeFlixel is using by default the legacy OpenFL, I just wonder if will solve your problem.

[Pizzamakesgames]

Hey Andrei, thank you very much. Here's the results:

D:\hyperdev\Projects\Skullz2>lime test neko -debug -Dnext
Uncaught exception - load.c(237) : Failed to load library : ./std.ndll

D:\hyperdev\Projects\Skullz2>haxelib list
actuate: [1.8.6]
box2d: [1.2.3]
flixel-addons: [1.1.0]
flixel-demos: [1.1.2]
flixel-templates: [1.0.2]
flixel-tools: 1.1.0 [1.1.1]
flixel-ui: [1.0.2]
flixel: [3.3.11]
haxelib_client: [3.2.0-rc.3]
hxcpp: [3.2.102]
layout: [1.2.1]
lime-samples: 2.5.1 [2.6.0]
lime: 2.5.2 [2.6.1]
nme: [5.4.2]
openfl-samples: 3.1.0 [3.3.0]
openfl: 3.2.2 [3.3.2]
swf: 1.9.1 [2.0.1]

[Pizzamakesgames]

Uh, any way to revert that? That error just came up for the first time and now it's not going away anymore.

[Andrei Regiani]

Next time don't trust strangers in the internet. Just kidding :P delete folder export/, this should clean the build process

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Pizzamakesgames <feliks...@online.de> wrote:

Uh, any way to revert that? That error just came up for the first time and now it's not going away anymore.

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[Andrei Regiani]

Can you build any of the HaxeFlixel demos (one that has sounds) to check if this issue is only with your project?

[Pizzamakesgames]

Phew, that fixed it, thanks!

 

I have a hunch, though I have no idea if that could be it. While trying to compile with -Dnext, I first got an error about a string that should rather be a TextFormat.align in one of my lines unrelated to the sound. I fixed that, then I got the ndll error. I didn't get that error about the String when compiling from FlashDevelop, so I didn't know there was something wrong to begin with. So, might that somehow lead to the crashing with the error wrongly pointing to the .ogg file not being able to be loaded? I havn't experienced any crashes since.

[Pizzamakesgames]

Yeah, did a load more compiling and it didn't crash still. Just weird that it didn't throw the same error while compiling with FlashDevelop. Would wonder why that is, otherwise I'd say this is solved. Sorry for wasting your time with a simple mistake like that.

[Pizzamakesgames]

Did have some more crashes with both .ogg and .wav files on the neko target. In fact, trying to replicate it just now "worked" first try.

Build succeeded

Done(0)

haxelib run lime run "Project.xml" neko -debug

Running process: D:\hyperdev\haxe\haxe\haxelib.exe run lime run "Project.xml" neko -debug

AL lib: (EE) MMDevApiOpenPlayback: Device init failed: 0x80004005

Sound.hx:118: Error: Could not load "assets/sounds/stepsfx1.ogg"

Sound.hx:118: Error: Could not load "assets/sounds/stepsfx2.ogg"

Sound.hx:118: Error: Could not load "assets/sounds/stepsfx1.ogg"

Invalid operation (/)

Called from flixel.system.FlxSound::update line 241

Called from flixel.group.FlxTypedGroup::update line 89

Called from Snow01x::update line 82

Called from flixel.FlxState::tryUpdate line 155

Called from flixel.FlxGame::update line 700

Called from flixel.FlxGame::step line 648

Called from flixel.FlxGame::onEnterFrame line 493

Called from openfl._legacy.events.EventDispatcher::dispatchEvent line 98

Called from openfl._legacy.display.DisplayObject::__dispatchEvent line 182

Called from openfl._legacy.display.DisplayObject::__broadcast line 161

Called from openfl._legacy.display.DisplayObjectContainer::__broadcast line 280

Called from openfl._legacy.display.Stage::__render line 1103

Called from openfl._legacy.display.Stage::__checkRender line 351

Called from openfl._legacy.display.Stage::__pollTimers line 1084

Called from openfl._legacy.display.Stage::__doProcessStageEvent line 430

Done(1)

Last time I found an unrelated error by using "neko test lime" via cmd, which I thought caused the problem, though now this approach compiled fine right after.

Was not able to recreate the issue on any project other than mine, though.

Snow01x::update line 82 is super.update();

[Pizzamakesgames]

Another info that may be helpful: on a completely unrelated game I did have an issue where the finished windows standalone build would randomly not have any sound on every odd start of the game, which reflects the inability to load any sound files on compile with this project. 

[Andrei Regiani]

That's not normal, something is broken in your installation, not hard to happen when the whole stack of tools are supported by different developers.

I'm not sure if this is a good advice, but I in your position would reinstall everything, Haxe, OpenFL, Lime, HaxeFlixel, even FlashDevelop, using latest versions. The last hope would be to use everything git/dev version.

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 9:14 PM, Pizzamakesgames <feliks...@online.de> wrote:

Another info that may be helpful: on a completely unrelated game I did have an issue where the finished windows standalone build would randomly not have any sound on every odd start of the game, which reflects the inability to load any sound files on compile with this project. 

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[Pizzamakesgames]

Thanks for the suggestion! Did reinstall FlashDevelop, Haxe, Neko, OpenFL, Lime, Haxeflixel and even Visual Studio. Will report back after the next working period.

[Pizzamakesgames]

I'm afraid that didn't fix it. Having as much as 3 crashes in a row before it just starts without any errors again. The project isn't particularly big yet, so it might still be easy to figure it out by process of elimination. If only I had some pointers...is there anything I could do to help figure it out except remove parts of the project one by one until I'm sure it doesn't crash anymore?

[Pizzamakesgames]

I still need to do some testing, but I think I may have found the issue here. Up until now, I was handling sounds like this:

var step1sfx = new FlxSound();

override public function create():Void

{
step1sfx.loadEmbedded("assets/sounds/stepsfx1.ogg", false);
}

Now, I'm handling them like this:

var introsfx1_1:FlxSound;

override public function create():Void

{

introsfx1_1 = FlxG.sound.load("1_introsfx1");

}

With this in the Project.xml:

<assets path="assets/sounds" unless="flash">

<sound path="1_introsfx1.ogg" id="1_introsfx1" />

</assets>

Might this have been causing the crashes?

[Pizzamakesgames]

Humm, totally just crashed again. Bummer.

Build succeeded

Done(0)

haxelib run lime run "Project.xml" neko -debug

Running process: D:\Projects\hyperdev\haxe\haxelib.exe run lime run "Project.xml" neko -debug

AL lib: (EE) MMDevApiOpenPlayback: Device init failed: 0x80004005

Sound.hx:118: Error: Could not load "assets/sounds/1_introsfx1.ogg"
Invalid operation (/)

Called from flixel.system.FlxSound::update line 241

Called from flixel.group.FlxTypedGroup::update line 89

Called from flixel.system.frontEnds.SoundFrontEnd::update line 278

Called from flixel.FlxGame::update line 696

Called from flixel.FlxGame::step line 648

Called from flixel.FlxGame::onEnterFrame line 493

Called from openfl._legacy.events.EventDispatcher::dispatchEvent line 98

Called from openfl._legacy.display.DisplayObject::__dispatchEvent line 182

Called from openfl._legacy.display.DisplayObject::__broadcast line 161

Called from openfl._legacy.display.DisplayObjectContainer::__broadcast line 286

[SruloArt]

* I've seen that error before, most likely you have another audio device (like a sound card, HDMI audio output etc) on your machine, disabling it should "solve" that issue (not really a fix, but this would have to do).

* HaxeFlixel should have a workaround, but that would only be relevant to OpenFL-Next (make sure the proper device is initialized), but personally I think should be resolved at the Lime-level.  

[Pizzamakesgames]

Since I also do a lot of audio work, I have an abundance of audio devices. I often work on music simultaneous to the game, meaning I can't possibly disable them all every time I compile. The issue also persists on the completed build. Any time it's started there's a chance it won't have any audio. As I can't possibly know the audio devices of any given player, that issue would even persist if I were able to disable the extra audio devices on my end.

[andre...@gmail.com]

Could you prepare a simple demo where we can reproduce this error? What OS you use?

On Oct 18, 2015, at 18:19, Pizzamakesgames <feliks...@online.de> wrote:

Since I also do a lot of audio work, I have an abundance of audio devices. I often work on music simultaneous to the game, meaning I can't possibly disable them all every time I compile. Also the issue persists on the completed game. Any time it's started there's a chance it won't have any audio...that's not acceptable, is it?

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[Pizzamakesgames]

Thanks, yeah I'd be happy to make a demo reproducing the issue for you, though it hasn't been occuring anymore since last time I posted. I did a couple miscellaneous things...I'll see if it won't turn up again after a couple days of developing and report back.

[Pizzamakesgames]

Had the error come up very rarely when working on the game yesterday,  didn't have any luck reproducing the issue today, both with a demo project that does nothing but load a sound in the MenuState's create function as well as the game on which it has been happening, compiling both projects dozens of times. Will keep you posted.

[Pizzamakesgames]

Oh Interesting, it just happened while the game was running. The sound was just gone and then the next time a sound object was gonna get loaded, the Output threw the same "Sound.hx:118: Error: Could not load" as when compiling.

[Pizzamakesgames]

Here is the game: https://itch.io/jam/bitesizedhorror/rate/40764

The sound cuts out right where the text "It's not every day that you..." comes up, then again on "Supposedly, there was this fella..." and again later. It seems to fix itself if you deselect/reselect the window. Furthermore, the game consistently crashed on using FlxG.sound.playMusic("path/to/music.ogg");

Here's the game's source if anybody wants to try and help me figure out what's going on: https://www.dropbox.com/s/53m2udvvlua46ax/SkullzTwoText.rar

[Pizzamakesgames]

Apparently using neko instead of cpp does the trick at least for the cutting out during gameplay problem.

[Pizzamakesgames]

Here's what's happening if I try "lime test neko -debug -Dnext"

D:\Projects\hyperdev\Projects\SkullzTwoText>lime test neko -debug -Dnext

D:/Projects/hyperdev/haxe/lib/flixel/3,3,11/flixel/input/gamepad/FlxGamepadManag

er.hx:360: lines 360-369 : Class not found : JoystickEvent

[Pizzamakesgames]

This is the appropriate function throwing the error, by the way:

...\haxe\lib\openfl\3,3,9\openfl\_legacy\media\Sound.hx

public function load (stream:URLRequest, context:SoundLoaderContext = null, forcePlayAsMusic:Bool = false):Void {

bytesLoaded = 0;

bytesTotal = 0;

__handle = lime_sound_from_file (stream.url, forcePlayAsMusic);

if (__handle == null) {

trace ("Error: Could not load \"" + stream.url + "\"");

dispatchEvent (new IOErrorEvent (IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR));

} else {

url = stream.url;

__loading = true;

__checkLoading ();

__loading = false;

dispatchEvent (new Event (Event.COMPLETE));

}

}

[Pizzamakesgames]

At this point I might be better off exporting to flash and using a wrapper, eh?

[Pizzamakesgames]

Flash export seems to be running well: http://pizzamakesgames.itch.io/a-skullz-story

[Pizzamakesgames]

Ah, by the way, disabling all audio devices other than my speakers didn't change anything about the problem :/ 

[SruloArt]

* I recommend you to approach https://twitter.com/grapefrukt, he encountered the same issue when he released Rymdkapsel on Steam, he got it solved somehow, I hope.

[Pizzamakesgames]

Thank you! I've sent him a tweet, that'd be cool if he knew something about that. I'm afraid I might have littered up the thread with a little too much information by now, I hope people will still be able to see the issue through this mess. To summarize it again real quick:

It's about this error: Sound.hx:118: Error: Could not load "assets/music/SnowPath_nonproperloop.ogg", leading to no sound on every odd start of the game, only on the cpp target, after it's already been compiled, and it's happening inconsistently. The appropriate scripts the error is pointing to are openfl's sound.hx and flixel's FlxSound. Though, I'm suspecting the fault to be somewhere within my setup or the code of my game.

[Pizzamakesgames]

Something curious that may or may not be related. I'm typing text during gameplay, with each letter playing a sound. I've been having issues with the sound cutting out after a while. While testing, it seemed like the sound would always cut out at pretty precisely sound number 255. Of course, when trying to record the issue multiple times, it never cut out at all for some reason.

Here is it as it should be working and as it only did when trying to record the issue: https://youtu.be/WNi0ItXkOdM

[Pizzamakesgames]

Filed two Issue Reports on the HaxeFlixel GitHub repo to spare people the mess of this thread if they want to try and solve the issue:

No sound on load: [Sound.hx:118: Error]

Sound cutting out after playing 255 times on cpp target