On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Brian J Karimzad wrote:
> I'm designing a kiosk app. that will run on Solaris.
>
> All is fine, except for playing a large (40mb) movie file. There is a
> 15-50 second lag from when the card opens to when the movie starts
> playing. This doesn't happen on Windows or Mac, and, oddly enough, is not
> related to the speed of the Ultra stations I'm testing on.
>
> Any options to select w/ xanim or other techniques that may speed things
> up?
XAnim "fondles" the whole movie file before playing it, so performance
will generally be dependent on disk speed and RAM more than processor
speed. 40MB is pretty big, and you might want to break it into parts
and use "prepare" to prepare the other parts while the first (smaller)
clip is playing.
Regards,
Scott
> Thanks.
>
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