I am using POV-RAY for the first time and am having exactly the problem 
you described.  I can only get up to 5 frames to render.  I am using a 
dual 867 Mhz machine, and the same thing happens in OS X and OS 9. Have 
you found a solution to the problem? Thanks for any ideas you might have.

John

Russell wrote:
> Adam Dershowitz wrote:
> 
>>I just downloaded and installed POV-Ray.  I am using OS 10.2 (I saw the
>>warning about opening files, so I am working around that).
>>I have tried several of the animation examples that are included and
>>each time POV-Ray just locks up.  My pointer goes to the spinning "busy"
>>circle, and POV-Ray stops responding to anything.  I can then just kill
>>the application, but can't do anything else.
>>I have tried doing animations in two different ways.  First I loaded one
>>of the examples, by dragging the file into the Render queue, then
>>started the Render queue to open the file (and render a frame).  Next I
>>then changed the render settings for the examples to use the INI file.
>>I then selected render, and I get the busy spinning icon, with no
>>indication of any progress.
>>I also tried loading a different example animation the same way as
>>above.  Then I manually changed the setting for the object to animation
>>and put in some numbers (the same as what was in the INI).  This time
>>the progress window opened, but I got no indication of any progress, and
>>POV-Ray again locked up.  Although this time I got 6 images in the same
>>directory (named bounce1 -bouce 6) then no additional frames, or
>>indication of any progress.
>>Again, I had to force quit.
>>I am running on a dual G4 1GHz machine, if that matters.  Does this
>>relate to the OS 10.2 bug that you mentioned?
>>I was about to send this email, but decided to try one other thing.  I
>>changed it to only render 4 frames, and then it seemed to work fine.  I
>>then tried 10 frames, and it did a few then locked up again.  Seems very
>>strange to me.
>>
>>Please let me know if there is anything that I can do, or what bugs
>>might exist to cause this.
>>
>>I also tried getting info on the POV-Ray executable and set the flag to
>>have it open in Classic.  But when I then double clicked on it, it still
>>open in OS X, so I was not able to try it that way.  Any idea why that
>>is?
>>
>>
>>Thanks much,
>>and I am very excited about this program.  Very nice work!
>>
>>
>>der### [at] alummitedu
>>
> 
> 
>   I was about to post the identical message.  I can confirm the same problem
> on OSX 10.1.5.  I also note that the bug always happens after generating
> about 5 or 6 frames, regardless of which frame is the 6th.  In other words,
> if I start at frame 3, it will choke 6 frames later on frame 9, so it's not
> something special about the image in frame 6.  I've tried many conbinations
> of output type, internal/external looping, image size, image quality, etc.
> Always the same behavior of choking on the 6th frame of the sequence.
> 
>   Russ
>

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