> Some gif playback engines go bonkers when the frame delay is too low, but are > fine otherwise. You may want to see if that's a part of the problem.
Yeah, maybe. I knew someone would mention the "frame rate" vs "frame delay" difference -- the interwebs says this refers mostly to browsers, but I don't know from experience. I am referring to Quicktime 7's inspector window. And actually I was wrong -- Quicktime 7 uses the term FPS, not framerate. So effectively gif's have variable fps. I noticed the "bad" gif attached here has 0 delay in the photoshop timeline. Speculation: maybe this is a case of "poorly designed" gifs. Maybe the resurgence in popularity has also brought along this new issue. Jerry On Nov 1, 2012, at 10:59 PM, George Toledo wrote: > Gif's don't have a frame rate exactly; they have a frame delay that's encoded > into each frame of the gif. > > Some gif playback engines go bonkers when the frame delay is too low, but are > fine otherwise. You may want to see if that's a part of the problem. > > > > On Nov 1, 2012, at 2:14 AM, Jerry Smith <jers...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/gtoledo3%40gmail.com >> >> This email sent to gtole...@gmail.com
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