[CIG-SEISMO] Movie Creation Error

[Dimitri Komatitsch]

Yes, as Emanuele says the problem is that you entered a negative value 
(-200) for the time stamp.

Best wishes,
Dimitri.

On 27/06/2014 21:11, emanuele casarotti wrote:
> For me the problem is the -200 timestamp...
> I don't think you have a moviedata file for that
>
> Emanuele
>
>> Il giorno 27/giu/2014, alle ore 16:48, Carl Tape <carltape at gi.alaska.edu> ha scritto:
>>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> I just made a movie with the latest version of the devel code for
>> SPECFEM3D (movie here: http://youtu.be/Tx-u_HULFnY), so things appear
>> to be working. I always use the AVS UCD format, though, so I can speak
>> for the format you are trying (opendx).
>>
>> One thing I noticed from your output was the line
>>
>> ../in_out_files/OUTPUT_FILES/moviedata******
>>
>> which  is suggestive of an older version of the code, since the path
>> should point to OUTPUT_FILES/moviedata*** (no in_out_files). I also
>> think the that execution command is like
>>
>> ./bin/xcreate_movie_shakemap_AVS_DX_GMT
>>
>> It could be that the relative path to your movie files is incorrect.
>> But if this fails, then I would try AVS UCD format, which I have been
>> using for several years, and it seems to work well. And if that fails
>> for you, then I would try the latest devel version of the code.
>>
>> Good luck.
>> Carl
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>> Carl Tape
>> Assistant Professor
>> Geophysical Institute (office 413D)
>> University of Alaska Fairbanks
>> Phone: 907-474-5456
>> Email: carltape at gi.alaska.edu
>> Web: http://www.giseis.alaska.edu/input/carl/
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 5:33 PM, John Cooper <nhojcooper at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Dear CIG community,
>>>
>>> I simulated my model. I want to create a movie which is giving me the error
>>> message (below). I tried in many different ways, but non of them work. Could
>>> somebody kindly tell me where I am doing wrong? I would be really grateful,
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> John
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> svr:~/SPECFEM3D/examples/final/bin$ ./xcreate_movie_shakemap_AVS_DX_GMT
>>>
>>> Recombining all movie frames to create a movie
>>>
>>>
>>> reading parameter file
>>>
>>>    moviedata element surfaces:         3136
>>>    moviedata total elements all:        12544
>>>
>>> Vertical displacement will be shown in movie
>>>
>>> 1 = create files in OpenDX format
>>> 2 = create files in AVS UCD format
>>> 3 = create files in GMT xyz Ascii long/lat/Uz format
>>> any other value = exit
>>>
>>> enter value:
>>> 1
>>> movie frames have been saved every          200  time steps
>>>
>>> enter first time step of movie (e.g. 1, enter -1 for shaking map)
>>> -200
>>> enter last time step of movie (e.g.       120000 )
>>> 120000
>>>
>>> 1 = define file names using frame number
>>> 2 = define file names using time step number
>>> any other value = exit
>>>
>>> enter value:
>>> 1
>>>
>>> looping from         -200  to       120000  every          200  time steps
>>>
>>> total number of frames will be          602
>>>
>>> movie data:
>>> 1= norm of velocity  2=velocity x-comp 3=velocity y-comp 4=velocity z-comp
>>>
>>> 4
>>>
>>> there are a total of         3136  elements at the surface
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> reading snapshot time step         -200  out of       120000
>>>
>>> error: ../in_out_files/OUTPUT_FILES//moviedata******
>>> STOP error opening moviedata file
>>>
>>>
>>> # sometimes the error is like this (e.g. 800 instead of -200 time step)
>>> At line 324 of file ../shared//create_movie_shakemap_AVS_DX_GMT.f90 (unit =
>>> 41, file = '../in_out_files/OUTPUT_FILES//moviedata000800')
>>> Fortran runtime error: I/O past end of record on unformatted file
>>>
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