Hi Charlie, I think that the the Movie Player patch inside the Iterator will only keep one movie file open at a time. In each iteration the patch thinks that you want to draw a different movie, because you are changing the movie path input on each iteration. Since you only have a single instance of the movie patch, it closes the current loaded movie file and opens the next one. Pretty remarkable that this can even happen so quickly ;-)
I don't have a good advice how to solve this. I guess you will end up with multiple duplicates of the macro you mentioned and enable or disable some of them depending on how many movies you want to play back at once. best, Achim Breidenbach Boinx Sotware On 15.12.2010, at 14:42, Charlie Francis wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to build a grid of videos by using an iterator to load each movie > from an xml file. > > Whenever I put more than 1 video in config file, the fps drops considerably, > to around 4fps, and the videos skip a lot, freezing my machine. > I've noticed that iterators are very powerful for duplicating elements, but > if each element is different it seems to crumble very quickly. > > The only work around I have found is to create a macro and duplicate it as > many times as I want videos, but this doesn't leave it as open to adding > more/less videos. It also becomes a noodle city! > > Is it possible to have large individual elements, like videos, loaded inside > an iterator? And is there any way that I can see what exactly is causing the > slow down, such as problem patches or disk read times for the videos and such. > > Files can be downloaded from this link > http://www.mediafire.com/?n1mroe6eo17k89e > Sorry I couldn't upload the zip as an attachement, but it's too large for the > dev list. > > Regards, > Charlie > > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Quartzcomposer-dev mailing list (Quartzcomposer-dev@lists.apple.com) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/quartzcomposer-dev/achim%40boinx.com > > This email sent to ac...@boinx.com
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