On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 01:59 PM, Lewis Fleming wrote:
> What's the best way to try and make your movie play at the same speed
> across
> different speeds of computer?
Take the frame rate way, way down. :\
There's no benchmark test for CPU types, nor to my knowledge an Xtra
that does it, so calculating actual chip speed and varying your update
rates based on that is not very easy, to say the least.
Setting your tempo to about 15 FPS seems to give reasonably tolerable
results across a lot of different platforms, but I don't think you'll
be able to get much better than that -- that is, some people will have
slow playback no matter what, and if you reduce your framerate much
more people on faster machines will notice that your screen refreshes
seem unnecessarily choppy.
I suppose context is a factor too. What is it you want to display at
constant rates? As a rule if you are animating bitmaps, the larger they
are the poorer the playback performance is, especially if you use ink
effects such as BG transparent or blend.
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