Initialization failed about bescreencapture HOT 6 CLOSED

It seems there are various tickets filed in the haiku bugtracker which could be the cause of this problem:
https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/17153
https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/18160
https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/9458

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Haiku ticket 9458 is fixed, but situation seems to have worsened on x86_gcc32 (32 bit).

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Interesting: changing line 76 of FramesList.cpp from

CountItems() >= 100

to

CountItems() >= 10

seems to fix the issues.

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More tests:
If I let BeScreenCapture capture more than 100 frames, it crashes (around 95/100 frames), much before the encoding phase.
Note that memory isn't an issue, since I tested with 2GB or 4GB with the same results.
The workaround described above fixes the issue.

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Added more logging:

It fails like this:
MovieEncoder::_EncoderThread() started
MovieEncoder::_CreateFile()
path: /boot/system/cache/tmp/BSC_clip_CzAVqu1
media_file_format: MPEG (Motion Picture Experts Group)(mpg)
media_format: width: 1920, height: 1080, colorspace: 8
PluginManager: Error, load_add_on(): General system error
PluginManager: Error, loading PlugIn ffmpeg failed
PluginManager::CreateWriter: GetPlugin failed
BMediaFile::InitCheck() failed with Initialization failed
MovieEncoder::_EncoderThread(): _CreateFile failed with Initialization failed

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Seems like we hit the 2GB application memory limit on 32 bit, so there is no way this can work.
I'll just avoid keeping the bitmaps in memory, then.

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