CALayerInvalidGeometry exception during HTML5 video play

Question

After updating to the iOS 4.2 SDK, I receive the following exception in my app:

Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'CALayerInvalidGeometry', reason: 'CALayer position contains NaN: [nan 22]'

(Please see below for the copy of call stack)

Details:

'- UIWebView with video tag is inside UIScrollView

'- Video can play inside UIWebView, but when tried to zoom in, and use either zoom-out or done button from the player, the app crashes with the said exception. This doesn't happen on SDK 3.2

*** Call stack at first throw:
(
 0   CoreFoundation                      0x01150be9 __exceptionPreprocess + 185
 1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x012a55c2 objc_exception_throw + 47
 2   CoreFoundation                      0x01109628 +[NSException raise:format:arguments:] + 136
 3   CoreFoundation                      0x0110959a +[NSException raise:format:] + 58
 4   QuartzCore                          0x0200996a _ZL18CALayerSetPositionP7CALayerRKN2CA4Vec2IdEEb + 177
 5   QuartzCore                          0x020098b5 -[CALayer setPosition:] + 42
 6   QuartzCore                          0x020097cc -[CALayer setFrame:] + 763
 7   UIKit                               0x0030d307 -[UIView(Geometry) setFrame:] + 255
 8   UIKit                               0x003e6add -[UISlider setFrame:] + 166
 9   MediaPlayer                         0x00f0faee -[MPDetailSlider setFrame:] + 78
 10  MediaPlayer                         0x00f267b7 -[MPWildcatFullScreenVideoOverlay layoutSubviews] + 1280
 11  QuartzCore                          0x0200e451 -[CALayer layoutSublayers] + 181
 12  QuartzCore                          0x0200e17c CALayerLayoutIfNeeded + 220
 13  QuartzCore                          0x0200737c _ZN2CA7Context18commit_transactionEPNS_11TransactionE + 310
 14  QuartzCore                          0x020070d0 _ZN2CA11Transaction6commitEv + 292
 15  QuartzCore                          0x020377d5 _ZN2CA11Transaction17observer_callbackEP19__CFRunLoopObservermPv + 99
 16  CoreFoundation                      0x01131fbb __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_AN_OBSERVER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION__ + 27
 17  CoreFoundation                      0x010c70e7 __CFRunLoopDoObservers + 295
 18  CoreFoundation                      0x0108fbd7 __CFRunLoopRun + 1575
 19  CoreFoundation                      0x0108f240 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 208
 20  CoreFoundation                      0x0108f161 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 97
 21  GraphicsServices                    0x01a85268 GSEventRunModal + 217
 22  GraphicsServices                    0x01a8532d GSEventRun + 115
 23  UIKit                               0x002e642e UIApplicationMain + 1160
 24  ecom                                0x000022c0 main + 102
 25  ecom                                0x00002251 start + 53
)
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'NSException'

Ehrsam

Answer 1

Since iOS 4.2 there seems to be an issue with the calculations of the frame size for the slider inside the MoviePlayer.

If the width of the frame is set between 143.0 and 235.0 this exception occurs.

Nixie

Answer 2

I was seeing a similar issue with my UIScrollView. I noticed this warning in the iOS docs:

Important: You should not embed UIWebView or UITableView objects in UIScrollView objects. If you do so, unexpected behavior can result because touch events for the two objects can be mixed up and wrongly handled.

I had a UITextView embedded within the scrollView. Removing that fixed the issue for me.

Conte

Answer 3

I also had the same problem with a class inheriting from a UIScrollView. The solution was pretty odd: Instead of using "initWithFrame" I just used "init" and set the frame manually in the next line. This solved the problem for me.

The problem occured only on one specific object - I created objects of the same type with "initWithFrame" in other parts of my program without problems. The problem also occured only on an iPhone 4 with iOS 4.2. It did worked without problems on iPhone 4 with iOS 4.1 and on an iPad with iOS 4.2.

Judenberg

Answer 4

I've started having the same expcetions with 4.2 and Xcode 4.2.5 (only in simulator - never on the real 4.2 device) and with CAGradientLayer code for gradient-background for cells - which is otherwise working fine on handful of other applications ,

luckily,

surrounding the code with Try-Catch block does produce expcetion sometimes, but no visible artefacts appear, all the cells do still have gradient backgrounds.

Arlon