Hi Chrisitan, How big gif's are you trying to handle.
With the gif plugin my assumption has been the the aninated gifs would be small enough that storing in memory wouldn't be that costly. I have no objection to having a separate thread handle reading as an option - if you are willing to code it. However, it's not a big issue w.r.t memory usage then I'd say just live it as is. Robert. On 8 January 2015 at 15:51, Christian Buchner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > there's a couple of things I noticed with the GIF plugin. > > When it encounters animated GIFs, it will decode the entire animation into > a sequence of images in RAM. This process appears to be synchronous (it > blocks the calling thread), and it will consume a lot of memory. > > I was wondering if there is any interest in improving this. > > For example we could shift the decoding to when an image is actually > supposed to be rendered to screen. We still need to make an initial first > pass over the file in order to determine the total number of frames and > their respective playout timestamps - but I think we could skip the > decoding pass. > > Christian > > > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > >
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