MovieFileIn Freezing on 2025.31760

Bugs
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I am having repeated issues with MovieFileIn freezing TouchDesigner 2025.31760. I have updated NVIDIA graphics drivers.

The issue is occuring on two different machines, both running Windows 11 Pro:
Processor Intel(R) Core™ i9-14900K (3.20 GHz)
Installed RAM 64.0 GB (63.7 GB usable)
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

Seemingly at random times, when I load a MovieFileIn or turn on allowCooking for the parent COMP, TouchDesigner will freeze up (no crash). I experienced this issue on both my desktop (running a 5070) and my laptop (laptop 4090).

Is anyone else having this issue? I’ve tried updating my graphics drivers with no success. I don’t remember this issue occurring with past TD versions.

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Hi @BradyCortina,

is this repeatable for you in a fresh TouchDesigner with a default video from the Samples folder or do you encounter this in a specific file and/or with a specific video which you could share for us to reproduce the issue?

cheers
Markus

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Hi Snaut,

It is reproduceable on both of my machines. I’ve attached an example project. Try switching the “MovieFileIn” file to Image1 and Image2 at runtime.

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I also would like to add, it doesn’t seem to happen every time. It happens seemingly at random, but always when loading a MovieFileIn TOP

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Just tested it in different versions, all official 2025 versions freeze while 2023 versions (tested 2023.12370) do not freeze.

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Hey Brady,

When you get the freeze, can you go to the Windows Task Manager, right click on the TouchDesigner process and choose ‘Create Dump File’? .zip that and send us that file, it’ll let us know where the process is freezing.

Thanks

Malcolm

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Hi Malcolm, here is the DMP

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Thanks, the .dmp file shows it’s crashing trying to load some EXIF metadata from the .png file. This would be new behavior in 2025.30000 series, since we didn’t use EXIF in the past.

We’re taking a look.

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Hello,

There should be a fix for the EXIF issues that were causing this freeze, can you try this build https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7cy1hjb0xvoczb8ixlol9/TouchDesigner.2025.31888.exe?rlkey=5uv9a39ckizm9zn5g98x0q53i&dl=0 to see if the error persists.

Huck

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Hi Huck, this fixes it! Thank you. On top of the crash fix, it also seems the loading times for MoveInTOPs with PNGs have decreased.

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Good to hear!