I'm wanting to implement a display area with 4 monitors, each running a full screen composition with just a simple patch to call up a QuickTime file and run it (all QT files are HD). I have a quad- core with 4 GPUs. Still, even with all monitors on their own GPU and this beast machine to back them up, FPS are around 10 or less. Does anyone know a way to run 4 full-screen, 720p HD videos off of one box while attaining 30+ FPS for all movies?
The Movie Loader in QC is really slow (as you've just noticed). You can try setting it to asynchronous mode in the inspector panel, but I don't think it'll get you to 30+ fps.
What are you running in? QC? QCVisualizer? A custom application? QC will struggle with multiple GPUs, I'm not sure if QCVisualizer will struggle as well. A custom application that maintains a QCRenderer for each GPU, each on its own thread, would probably be able to handle this fairly well. Of course, if the composition is as simple as you suggest (just a movie loader to a billboard), why use QC at all? Just pop in a QTMovieView in interface builder, and you should be set*.
*: I've never used QTMovieViews before, so I don't know entirely what I'm talking about, but it should be straightforward.
If this can't all run on one box, what would be a cheaper solution using multiple boxes?
with multiple machines, QCVisualizer is the way to go. Hope that helps a bit. -- [ christopher wright ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kineme.net/
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