thanks all for the feedback about this issue. now i have a better overview of what I might be dealing with.
enrike marius schebella(e)k dio: > I am also working on a project like this (with thomas grill, who solved > many problems before I even thought of them...). in principle > synchronisation works fine. > now your may ask why do other people pay so much money for expensive > hardware? > the problem lies in details: first resolution: for some cases you want > to go with the highest available resolution 1080p (and in the future > even more), and suddenly you will see small appearance of jitter, mostly > because quicktime is different inside a quicktime player and outside > quicktime, also because in most cases you have to convert color formats. > then, compensating a drift without losing frames is very tricky. > from my experience so far, Pd solutions only work up to 720p and only if > you use a drift compensating algorithm - sending a bang for every frame > over the network always causes jitter (although you may not notice). > It is no big effort to try a pd version and see if you are happy with it. > marius. > > altern wrote: >> hi >> >> I need to have several video outputs that run in sync. A friend who >> works in a art exhibition space told me there would be couple of >> solutions for this but both involve buying pretty expensive equipment >> like special DVD players. >> >> I thought then that a solution for this issue could be to have several >> computers on a local network playing video (with GEM) and synchronise >> them via OSC. But I dont have any experience doing such a thing, never >> used OSC for anything similar. Also I dont have a clue about how to >> synchronise together videos. >> >> Has anyone done anything similar? any experiences to share? >> >> thanks! >> >> enrike >> >> _______________________________________________ >> PD-list@iem.at mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >> > > _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list