[ redirected to -discuss; it went to -announce somehow ] On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 12:22:19AM +0000, Kelvin Lawson wrote: > > At 1280x1024, with Dangerous 02-14, Van Halen's Beautiful Girls, which > > is a pretty uptempo song, 10 can't quite keep up. 5 keeps up, but > > bundles too many updates to look good. > > Someone has been writing to me off-list with syncing problems - that's > on a 750MHz machine though - would be nice to know what the minimum spec > is to run smoothly.
Given how much processor there is in a cdg player, I can't imagine it's much. > It would also be good to establish hard facts about where the bottleneck > is. i.e. is it somewhere in the bowels of SDL or is it due to the CD+G > decoding. I'd bet *cash* it's in the scale-up algorithm inside pygame. Assuming that's who's scaling to size. > As I mentioned in a previous mail, there were some areas of > the code that were initially very slow on this machine (think it's an > Athlon XP1800). Loading the colour table was an example - I had a CD+G > that did a lot of colour table loads to achieve a colour-cycling effect, > and the initial implementation didn't cut the mustard. The new one was > way faster but could still be marginal. Are there particular parts of > the track that seem to cause problems? At 1:1 I've seen no problems at all. With anything. Including really fast stuff. > > 1) allow passing in the label code and disc number to cdgrip to add to > > the front of the track names (sc8119-05.cdg, or sc8119-05 Here's The > > Title.cdg). > > Sounds good. > > > 2) only play one track at a time even on a playlist. > > Something like a "Play" button, and a "Play One" button. Well, even for home-type use, you really only want to play one song at a time, I'd think. Single-user practice is the only environment where play-all seems useful, at least to me. > > 3) add OK buttons to the prefs and search dialogs. > > Gotcha. So you're doing that? Or I am? :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 "Space is called 'space' because there's so much *space* there." - John Walker, of Fourmilab, on Trek's End ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Pykaraoke-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pykaraoke-discuss
