B. Bogart wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions.
I'm not sure about using a mpeg for the following reasons:
#1. was does the interframe compression thing work, in other words how does it compare when seeking to a quicktime with photo-jpg codec?
#2. I'm damn confused about the seeking (see below)
as chris has pointed out, interframe compression can be a crux. however: solution a: make each frame a keyframe (should be possible with the encoder of your choice) solution b: don't care about keyframes at all, use an external tool to create a TOC of your mpeg, so that the decoder knows where to look for keyframes (mpeg3toc of the mpeg3-utils package) and load the toc-file into Gem and seek the file.
of course, solution b is more cpu and disk intensive, so you might still want to avoid it. it relies on libmpeg3 (imo libmpeg1 is unusable anyhow)
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