Hmm, I'll look again. Maybe some do, some don't. I was fighting it for a while, but now this simplified patch seems to behave with some odd frame rates. Thanks a lot for pursuing it, Achim.
Jerry On Oct 31, 2012, at 11:00 PM, Achim Breidenbach wrote: > Hi Jerry, > > I tried your composition with two sample gifs I took from the web. But it > seems that the Movie Importer patch is playing back those gifs in the correct > speed, even they have varying frame durations in a certain gif. > > Do you have a gif where this is not the case? I am still not sure if I > understand your issue correctly, sorry! > > best, > > Achim Breidenbach > Boinx Software Ltd. > > > On 31.10.2012, at 19:57, Jerry Smith wrote: > >> Thanks, Troy. Good to know the memory leak is being addressed. I didn't know >> Kineme had a movie loader. >> >> Achim, here's my workaround for dynamic loading. This demonstrates the issue. >> <gifPlayer.qtz> >> >> Jerry >> >> >> >> >> On Oct 31, 2012, at 9:39 AM, Troy Koelling wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Jerry Smith <jers...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi Troy, >>> >>> Unfortunately as far as I know this gif method involves dropping each gif >>> into the comp then exposing the image structure in the settings pane. This >>> isn't practical for my comp. I set it up to use folders as banks so I could >>> play thousands of gifs. >>> >>> Ah, that's true. I didn't consider the dynamic loading aspect. >>> >>> I haven't tried, but perhaps the Kenime movie loader uses QTKit still? >>> >>> >>> I felt sneaky tricking QC into first loading the directory of images then >>> playing them as movies, but I guess I was the one who was tricked. That >>> time of year, I guess. The movie importer is playing the gifs -- should I >>> be concerned about more serious problems, memory leaks, etc.? Is there a >>> way to monitor? I have eight movie importers running in parallel, all >>> hiccuping null errors, i guess happening each time it loads a new gif. >>> >>> Yes, I believe there was a memory leak on 10.8 but it should be fixed with >>> 10.8.2. >>> >>> >>> Considering the resurgence of animated gifs, I propose that y'all >>> reconsider relegating the format to the "legacy" bin. Small and light never >>> goes out of style. And there's a kind of visual charm to dithering. Call me >>> nostalgic, except I'm not especially. >>> >>> I agree. Gifs seem more tasteful now than they did 5 years ago when the >>> ability to extract all images was added to QC. Proper support is still a >>> ways off, so filing enhancement requests never hurts. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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: >> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/quartzcomposer-dev/achim%40boinx.com >> >> This email sent to ac...@boinx.com >
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