Hi João, Max, Indeed, the buffers would not solve the problem.
But I was thinking that the patches controlling VLC and quicktime would provide a solution or a way to find a solution. Best Luiz Naveda On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Max <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi João, > > actually those patches won't help you so much, as it aims at very short > samples/videos up to about 8 seconds, depending how much memory your graphics > card has. But they may give you an idea how to proceed. It's definitely not a > good Idea trying to load a long HD movie in a [gemframebuffer] it might even > crash gem if the memory on the card is not sufficient. > but try if h.264 (compression) in pix_film runs smoothly enough (that may > also depend on the OS you are on). > If anyone disagrees with above please chime in. > > Max > > Am 07.09.2012 um 05:33 schrieb Luiz Naveda: > >> Hi João, >> >> Have a look at the pristine tutorials of Max Neupert: >> >> http://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/wiki/Audiovideo >> >> and have fun! >> >> Luiz Naveda >> >> http://naveda.info >> >> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 5:15 AM, João Pais <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi list, >>> >>> I have almost no experience with GEM, so I wanted to ask around about this. >>> I have a patch that should play 3 HD films, in the following way: >>> >>> - the main patch plays the sound, and sends the frame-infos around through >>> OSC >>> - the frame-infos are received by 3 video player patches (each in one >>> separate Pd instance), each one playing one film >>> - the films are a bit heavy: 1/3 full HD = 640x1080pix each, around 6m long >>> (maybe more). The playing speed is around 25fps, sometimes less, sometimes >>> more >>> - the hardware has a SSD disk, and i5 quad processor > 2,7Ghz (I can't say >>> yet much about the graphic card) >>> >>> Which object is more adequate to play these videos in GEM? >>> Probably isn't a good idea to load the videos into RAM. The playback is also >>> very variable: forward, backward, something else... That means, is there a >>> buffer-setting that would help in this case? >>> And, under this context, how fast could the video be played? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> João >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> [email protected] mailing list >>> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >>> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >> >> >> >> -- >> Luiz Naveda >> >> http://naveda.info >> >> ^v^ >> ^v^ >> ^v^ >> >> ^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~~^~~^~~^~^~^~~~^^~^~~~~ >> ^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~~^~~^~~^~^~^~~~^~~~ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > -- Luiz Naveda _____________________________________________________ - PhD researcher http://www.ipem.ugent.be/samba - Director SysMus09 http://www.ipem.ugent.be/sysmus09 IPEM - Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music Ghent University Office: + 32 9 264 4127 Blandijnberg 2 Ghent, B-9000 Belgium ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~~^~~^~~^~^~^~~~^^~^~~~~ ^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~~^~~^~~^~^~^~~~^~~~ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
