AVI files possibly crashing pydance

[William Hilton]

Hi! I absolutely love pydance and think it's a great program. I use to play
it on my old computer, but when I migrated to a laptop, it started crashing
frequently when browsing songs. At first I thought it was because the songs
were .mp3, but converting them to .ogg didn't help. So I ran pydance from
the terminal to see if it provided any output. (I should have done that in
the first place I guess!)

File "/usr/share/games/pydance/interface.py", line 33, in load_banner
banner = pygame.image.load(filename)
pygame.error: Unsupported image format

Some of the folders had songs referencing .avi files (I guess StepMania
supports animated backgrounds; I think they're distracting.) Deleting the
AVI's fixed the frequent crashes when browsing songs in those folders. I
thought you ought to mention that "AVI files might cause trouble, so if you
are having crashes, delete them" on the FAQ page. (I "cd" to the folder
causing trouble and ran "find -type f -name *.avi -delete") Oddly, not all
AVI's appear to cause trouble - there's another folder that has AVI's but
doesn't seem to cause crashes. I didn't poke around deep enough to determine
exactly which AVI files were causing trouble, however.

There were some other errors on loading, mostly along the line of "E: list
index out of range". I'll attach a copy of the standard output.

--William Hilton
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user at computer:~$ pydance
0 joystick(s) found.
Loaded input configuration.
pydance 1.0.3 <pyddr-discuss at icculus.org> - irc.freenode.net/#pyddr
Psyco optimizing compiler found. Using psyco.full().
Searching for songs in /usr/share/games/pydance/songs
Searching for songs in ~/.pydance/songs
Searching for songs in /usr/local/share/games/pydance/songs
Searching for courses in /usr/share/games/pydance/courses
Searching for courses in ~/.pydance/courses
Searching for courses in /usr/local/share/games/pydance/courses
E: Unknown error loading /home/william/.pydance/songs/DDRExtreme.co.uk's 90's Mix NJ BONUS/Thrill/Thrill.sm
E: list index out of range
E: Please contact the developers (pyddr-devel at icculus.org).

E: Unknown error loading /home/william/.pydance/songs/DDRExtreme.co.uk's 90's Mix NJ BONUS/Dance Bu Buchou Nanbara/Dance Bu Buchou Nanbara.sm
E: list index out of range
E: Please contact the developers (pyddr-devel at icculus.org).

E: Unknown error loading /home/william/.pydance/songs/DDRExtreme.co.uk's 90's Mix JUDGED/kiss/Country Co Co - Kiss.sm
E: list index out of range
E: Please contact the developers (pyddr-devel at icculus.org).

E: Unknown error loading /home/william/.pydance/songs/Dancing WipEout 3/Nageki/Nageki.sm
E: list index out of range
E: Please contact the developers (pyddr-devel at icculus.org).

E: /home/william/.pydance/songs/DDRExtreme.co.uk's 90's Mix JUDGED/kiss/Song.mp3
E: /home/william/.pydance/songs/DDRExtreme.co.uk's 90's Mix JUDGED/kiss/Song.mp3 is missing: bpm

E: Unknown error loading /home/william/.pydance/songs/Dancing WipEout 3/Cassandra/Cassandra.sm
E: list index out of range
E: Please contact the developers (pyddr-devel at icculus.org).

E: Unknown error loading /home/william/.pydance/songs/DDRExtreme.co.uk's 90's Mix JUDGED/Henna Adana wa Iya/Henna Adana wa Iya.sm
E: list index out of range
E: Please contact the developers (pyddr-devel at icculus.org).

E: Unknown error loading /home/william/.pydance/songs/DDRExtreme.co.uk's 90's Mix JUDGED/LOVE Machine (analog remix)/LOVE Machine (analog remix).sm
E: list index out of range
E: Please contact the developers (pyddr-devel at icculus.org).

E: Unknown error loading /home/william/.pydance/songs/Plaguemix Series/Bitches (????-ZIQ Remix)/bitchesmuziq.sm
E: list index out of range
E: Please contact the developers (pyddr-devel at icculus.org).

Audio: Skipping 41.887001 seconds...
Audio: Skipping 50.627998 seconds...
Audio: Skipping 46.340000 seconds...
Audio: Skipping 50.627998 seconds...
Audio: Skipping 54.964001 seconds...
Audio: Skipping 51.389999 seconds...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/games/pydance", line 205, in <module>
    if __name__ == '__main__': main()
  File "/usr/games/pydance", line 195, in main
    menudriver.do(screen, (songs, crs, screen))
  File "/usr/share/games/pydance/menudriver.py", line 266, in do
    me.display()
  File "/usr/share/games/pydance/menus.py", line 184, in display
    ev = self.items[curitem].activate(ev)
  File "/usr/share/games/pydance/menus.py", line 57, in activate
    text, subtext = self.callbacks[ev](*self.args)
  File "/usr/share/games/pydance/menudriver.py", line 155, in wrap_ctr
    Obj(*args)
  File "/usr/share/games/pydance/gameselect.py", line 205, in __init__
    self.loop()
  File "/usr/share/games/pydance/gameselect.py", line 228, in loop
    VALUES[1][indices[1]])))
  File "/usr/share/games/pydance/songselect.py", line 202, in __init__
    self.loop()
  File "/usr/share/games/pydance/songselect.py", line 322, in loop
    self._banner.set_song(self._song)
  File "/usr/share/games/pydance/interface.py", line 456, in set_song
    song.render()
  File "/usr/share/games/pydance/interface.py", line 585, in render
    self.banner, self.clip = load_banner(self.info["banner"])
  File "/usr/share/games/pydance/interface.py", line 33, in load_banner
    banner = pygame.image.load(filename)
pygame.error: Unsupported image format