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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