Re: [PD] avoiding flicker with pix_video+pix_movement

2010-03-22 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
On 2010-03-21 18:22, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote: Hi, How do you work this around? How can one know whether a new frame has been captured or not? you can learn quite everything about a pix with [pix_info] fgmasdr IOhannes smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [PD] avoiding flicker with pix_video+pix_movement

2010-03-22 Thread Matteo Sisti Sette
IOHannes wrote: Hi, How do you work this around? How can one know whether a new frame has been captured or not? you can learn quite everything about a pix with [pix_info] How can I use it to learn whether a new frame has been captured? I tried [print]ing the output from the 7th

Re: [PD] avoiding flicker with pix_video+pix_movement

2010-03-22 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
On 2010-03-22 09:48, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote: IOHannes wrote: I tried [print]ing the output from the 7th outlet, whose function is not quite clear in the help patch: list newimage newfilm. I guessed either newimage or newfilm _may_ be a boolean meaning whether the image is new (or the film,

Re: [PD] avoiding flicker with pix_video+pix_movement

2010-03-22 Thread Jaime Oliver
is it possible your camera is capturing at 29.996 fps instead of 30 and pix_video still is capturing them as 30 or something similar? is it a dv compressed camera? could you measure the frequency of the black/white frames? J On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:54 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig

Re: [PD] avoiding flicker with pix_video+pix_movement

2010-03-22 Thread Matteo Sisti Sette
IOhannes m zmoelnig escribió: there are two possibilities why this is happening: - there is a bug in Gem that doesn't mark the images as old (was this on w32 or osx?) W32 (Windows Vista) - there is a bug in the image acquisition backend (DirectShow, QuickTime,...) that just serves the same

[PD] avoiding flicker with pix_video+pix_movement

2010-03-21 Thread Matteo Sisti Sette
Hi, I've found a thread about this issue in the archives but no solution. When you use [pix_video] followed by [pix_movement], you get either a white frame or a black frame every once in a while. In Windows I see black-frame flickering, while in Mac I have seesn frame-identity flickering.