Rok Mandeljc

> Instead, try calling `PE()` with `fast_load=True` or similar, if the performance is poor. The issue is not caused by the lack of `fast_load`, but by forced garbage collection that...

> pefile 2024.8.26 fixed memory leaks with that, see [pefile#386](https://github.com/erocarrera/pefile/pull/386). No, it didn't. It just masked the underlying issue by forcing the garbage collection to happen earlier than it would...

Is the original image larger than 760x480, which is currently the [size limit](https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/blob/3aa87b04648e5d9f957aec629fd2c0b283cb2bec/PyInstaller/building/splash.py#L148C57-L148C65) that triggers image resize? If so, does it help if you manually resize the image to size...

The original image has semi-transparent edges, which you can see if you open it in an image editor that supports layers. If you add another layer behind it and fill...

To illustrate, here's the letter B from the original image. First, with no background layer. Note the semi-transparent outline around the letter.  If we put red layer behind the...

Let's do this while the latest UPX-related incident is still fresh in our memories...

I'm not sure about the latest version of this report (which looks like absolute paths not being enabled by accident), but I can reproduce the original issue (empty) playlist in...

But actually, we should probably avoid using `urllib` for URI / pathname conversion, and instead use GLib's [`filename_from_uri`](https://docs.gtk.org/glib/func.filename_from_uri.html). (And we should probably do this conversion only for local files.)

> Please, can someone check on windows? Seems to work as expected with the playlist I was using for earlier test.

This usually means that your anti-virus program is blocking access to the executable during its assembly process. Can you check if this is the case (e.g., by temporarily disabling it)?