[Mlt-devel] Looping a producer

2015-10-21 Thread jeffrey k eliasen
In reading the docs and forums, I’m having a hard time understanding how to loop a clip. I have a background, a foreground, and a logo on screen. The background and foreground are video. The background is 30 seconds long but should continue to play as long as the foreground still has frames. Th

Re: [Mlt-devel] Looping a producer

2015-10-21 Thread Dan Dennedy
What you are trying to do - loop this until that - does not really work, incomplete implementation. Ask you can really do in your example is loop the tractor indefinitely. For the other parts you will need to compute times and possibly repeatedly place clips that have a natural duration. On Wed, O

Re: [Mlt-devel] Looping a producer

2015-10-21 Thread jeffrey k eliasen
So if I were to make the background playlist something like this: … is there any performance problem with doing it that way? It’s easy to compute the length of the background and the foreground, so I can just have as many entries as it takes to ensure the former is longer than the

Re: [Mlt-devel] Looping a producer

2015-10-21 Thread Dan Dennedy
On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 8:02 PM jeffrey k eliasen wrote: > So if I were to make the background playlist something like this: > > > > > > > > > … is there any performance problem with doing it that way? > No

Re: [Mlt-devel] Looping a producer

2015-10-21 Thread jeffrey k eliasen
Awesome, then that sounds like the easy solution for the time being. Thanks! -- jeffrey k eliasen - technologist, philosopher, agent of change blog | linkedin | google+