Yafray stops rendering animation after 120 frames

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I have a problem with Yafray when rendering animations. Rendering stops after rendering around 120 frames. Nothing freezes, it just stops, and won’t start again, so I have to quit and restart Blender, and start from the las frame rendered and go on. Frutrating too, cause it just gets useless letting Bleder work overnight, as I have to manually start rendering every 2 hours or so… The number of frames seems to vary a little around those 120, depending on the scene rendered… RAM problem? Does anybody know about such behaviour? Thanks in advance!

Just some further indication : I noticed that problem on animations implying Yafray with HDR illumination, full global illumination. My computer is a MacBook Pro 2.33 Ghz Core 2 Duo with 2 Go RAM.

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hi

http://www.yafray.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1037&highlight=animation

Alvaro.

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May i ask in which format you are saving the frames? Does it happen with another format too?

I cannot confirm the problem with file descriptors kept open on linux…at least with blender 2.43 “RC3”. Although blender’s file saving code for many formats is pretty sloppy, if image saving is aborted for any reason the file may not get closed.