Thanks for the suggestion, John. I'll give it a go!
On 17 April 2014 17:16, John Harrison <john.harri...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > I wonder if it would work better if you ran 2 Pd instances, loaded the > pics in one and ran the movie in the other, then shared the pics to the > movie instance with [pix_share_read] and [pix_share_write]? > > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Claire O'Connor <oconn...@tcd.ie> wrote: > >> Hi Chris, >> >> Thanks for your help. Converting the videos to those formats definitely >> helped. I am using Pure Data in a project which is attempting to create a >> slideshow. I am also using pix_image in conjunction with pix_film for this >> project and everytime I have a video playing and load a picture during that >> time, the video playback slows down. Have you any ideas on how to prevent >> this? I am using JPEGs taken on the same camera as mentioned above (Canon >> Ixus 127 HS) and they are between 3MB and 6MB each. The most images I would >> have banged to load at once is three. Here is some more information on >> those images. >> >> Any thoughts you might have would be a great help. Thank you! >> >> >> On 17 April 2014 14:44, Chris Clepper <cgclep...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> The issue is with the h.264 codec. On the Mac, compress them as 'Apple >>> Intermediate Codec' or ProRes (which comes with what's left of Final Cut >>> 'Pro'). The files will be much larger in size on the drive but play back >>> much better. When I wrote the OSX pix_film/movie code long ago, it was >>> only intended to play back intraframe codecs like the JPEG based ones and >>> not MPEG which are consumer delivery formats. >>> >>> You should also set the gemwin to render at least 30 frames per second >>> and for smoothest playback use 60fps which is the refresh rate of an LCD. >>> I think the default is still 15 or 20fps? >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 7:11 AM, Claire O'Connor <oconn...@tcd.ie>wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I am currently working on a project which uses films with GEM. However, >>>> the films are very glitchy and play very slowly when they load up. I was >>>> wondering if anyone knew anything about how to fix this problem? >>>> >>>> The videos used were taken on a Canon Ixus 127 HS and last between 10 >>>> and 15 seconds. They are .MOV files and I even tried exporting them as >>>> smaller files but it didn't change their glitchiness. Here is an example of >>>> the file before and after the export with the original file being 80.8MB >>>> and the exported file being 5.9MB. Even with a drastic change in size, the >>>> difference in playback did not change much at all. >>>> >>>> Any thoughts and ideas welcome. Thanks! >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >> >> >
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