> of course. > you need to bang [pix_record] in the desired framerate. > with "auto 1", it will always record in your current gem framerate, which is > 20fps. Thanks!
And with that I think I've identified the actual bug here. I still can't override that framerate by changing the option in the codec setting On 30 December 2012 01:11, Marian Weger <[email protected]> wrote: > >> No matter what framerate I set I still get a framerate of 20 (or whatever >> the >> original video was (I think)). > > > of course. > you need to bang [pix_record] in the desired framerate. > with "auto 1", it will always record in your current gem framerate, which is > 20fps. > > cheers, > marian > > > >> Before finally diagnosing this as a >> bug, is there a specific order to how the messages should be sent? >> This is my order, using the pix_record help file: >> >> 1 - create the gem window >> 2 - open the video file >> 3 - Choose the codec >> 4 - change the options of the codec (via set) >> 5 - open a location to save the file >> 6 - record >> 7 - set auto record [auto 1( >> >> Is this right? >> >> Thanks >> >> Antonio >> >> >> On 29 December 2012 19:41, IOhannes m zmölnig <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 12/29/2012 16:20, Antonio Roberts wrote: >>>>> >>>>> switching off the [gemhead] will not push new frames into your >>>>> [pix_record], >>>>> but it will not halt a "local time" (this is never what [gemhead] >>>>> does). >>>> >>>> >>>> Ah, I see now! Although this is expected behaviour, I still think it'd >>>> be useful to be able to pause recording (at least in this scenario) >>> >>> >>> >>> bien sur. >>> >>> >>>>> - either manually force the framerate to a constant value when writing >>>>> the >>>>> file (it might well be (haven't checked yet) that you actually cannot >>>>> force >>>>> the framerate to a given value, which indeed could be considered a bug) >>>> >>>> >>>> I've checked the help file and options and of pix_record and there >>>> doesn't appear to be any options to set the frame rate. Please correct >>>> me if I'm wrong! >>> >>> >>> aye, it's a bit undocumented :-( [*] >>> >>> like with [pix_video], you can set a number of properties specific to the >>> used backend/codec. >>> when selecting a specific codec, you should get a list of supported >>> properties for the selected setting on the info-outlet of [pix_record] >>> (that's the 3rd outlet). >>> >>> e.g. slecting [codec mjpa( gives me available properties "framerate", >>> "jpeg_quality" and "jpeg_usefloat". >>> you can then set these properties using a "set" message: >>> [set framerate 20( >>> should give create a film with a fixed framerate of 20fps, whereas >>> [set jpeg_quality 15( >>> will give you low quality jpeg compression. >>> >>> >>> >>>> I did a bit of further investigating and it appears that the framerate >>>> for the videos created by my patch/pix_record are craziliy high! >>>> Here's the sample video that I used >>>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/350846/test.mov I ran the following command to >>>> get some information from the file mplayer -vo null -ao null -frames 0 >>>> -identify test.mov >>>> >>>> The important part of that information is that the fps is 1000000.000. >>>> Something isn't right there... >>> >>> >>> hmm, i get: >>> $ qtinfo test.mov | grep rate >>> rate 0.608175 [1000000:1644263] not constant >>> >>> which sounds plausible to me. >>> might be, that mplayer doesn't report the correct framerate (only the >>> numerator, not the denominator) >>> >>> mfgasdr >>> IOhannes >>> >>> [*] patches contributing to the docs are welcome. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> [email protected] mailing list >>> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >>> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list -- ============================ [email protected] http://www.hellocatfood.com ============================ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
