I'm not sure what you mean by "transition effects." Can you clarify?
I think that with a real "playback" mode, there will be no need for the "slideshow" any more, as long as the playback lets you set frame rates in "seconds per frame" as well as "frames per second". On Mar 17, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Panks wrote: > So we need some transition effects also here I guess, else it won't be far > from slideshow? > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 4:30 AM, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote: > The "slide show" is just a very crude cycling through images, with n seconds > delay before moving on to the next image (n >= 1). > > By "playback", we mean playing back the images at a very precise frame rate > (24 or 30 fps for 2048 horizontal resolution images), with the usual "movie > player" kind of controls (pause, play, forward, back, etc.). This would > probably require quite a bit of clever work in pre-caching the images as > OpenGL textures in order to achieve frame rate, or possibly having one thread > handle the interface and a second thread reading images ahead of when they > are actually needed. It needs to be a good movie player, although it only > needs to play back a list of individual frames; in contrast to something like > VLC, it does not need to understand movie formats like Quicktime or AVI, nor > does it need to play back sound (for now, anyway). > > -- lg > -- Larry Gritz [email protected]
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