It seems to me that this should feature prominently in the docs somewhere. Something like "[pix_movie] is for special cases where you want to enable certain optimizations that don't work everywhere". Or even better, it would be great if [pix_movie] did work everywhere.
.hc On Jan 16, 2012, at 3:42 PM, Pall Thayer wrote: > Yes. This fixed the problems I was having. > > On Jan 16, 2012 3:40 PM, "Hans-Christoph Steiner" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have found that [pix_movie] does this on many machines, but using > [pix_film] connected to a [pix_texture] works everywhere. > > .hc > > On Jan 7, 2012, at 7:48 PM, Pall Thayer wrote: > > > Hi Chris, > > > > Thanks for the suggestion but that didn't work. > > > > Some other weird issues are that my ".mov" file worked fine on linux > > but not at all on OS X. The only thing that would play it was VLC so I > > used that to transcode it and was able to get it working (albeit with > > the flashing) in other formats. But I noticed that when the frame > > motion was backwards, it would cause clicking in the audio. So I ended > > up transcoding it to jpeg and that got rid of the clicking but I still > > get the flashing. > > > > Any more suggestions? > > > > Pall > > > > On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 7:26 PM, chris clepper <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Are you doing any pix_ processing? Sometimes still frames get double > >> processed causing unintended results. It has to do with Quicktime not > >> always giving the right indication that a new frame was delivered. Throw a > >> pix_separator in the chain and see if that does anything. > >> > >> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Pall Thayer <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi list. > >>> > >>> I'm working on a piece that's most likely going to be shown on a Macs > >>> running OS X and I'm running into a strange issue with GEM. The piece > >>> involves a short video clip that moves back and forth amongst the > >>> frames. As long as it's moving between frames, everything is fine. But > >>> as soon as it stops somewhere, it starts alternating between the > >>> correct colors and their opposites causing it to flash. This doesn't > >>> happen on linux, only on OS X. Anyone know why this is happening and > >>> how I can fix it? I've tried a variety of video formats but nothing > >>> seems to make a difference. Also, when it flashes to the opposite > >>> colors, it looks like the resolution changes. Weird. > >>> > >>> I would greatly appreciate any and all tips and suggestions. > >>> > >>> Pall > >>> > >>> -- > >>> ***************************** > >>> Pall Thayer > >>> artist > >>> http://pallthayer.dyndns.org > >>> ***************************** > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> [email protected] mailing list > >>> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > >>> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > ***************************** > > Pall Thayer > > artist > > http://pallthayer.dyndns.org > > ***************************** > > > > _______________________________________________ > > [email protected] mailing list > > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realize > his wishes. Now that he can realize them, he must either change them, or > perish. -William Carlos Williams > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It is convenient to imagine a power beyond us because that means we don't have to examine our own lives.", from "The Idols of Environmentalism", by Curtis White
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