On Friday, December 12, 2003, at 01:20 PM, zmoelnig@iem.at wrote:
...I'm against a start/stop functionality: I like the idea of [auto 1< with a toggle control, and I'd also support the ability to speed it up via an argument...but I thought that the point of auto was to allow the film to play back at whatever framerate you'd set the gemwin?
Why against start/stop? (play 1|0) I think it would be great to not reply on external counters to do most playing stuff. a rate message tied (perhaps as a percetage) to the render commands is great.
the whole thing is: should we make a complete movie-player-object for Gem ? or should it be possible to build a complete movie-player with Gem ?
...edit...
which brings us back to the long-discussed, approved and never done "abstractions"-folder
...I really think we need this! We already have the objects: I think something like ben's abstractions are probably a good place to start...A good set of abstractions will go a looong way toward improving the newbie's learning curve...
This is true, and I would be happy to make non-Gop versions of these abstractions is necessary. We do need easy access for a user to at least play pause video, rate control is also nice. As an abstraction or as an object means little for my argument here, its a purely from a user pov.
I'm apologize to all for not having my GOPs in the cvs abstractions, I'll get on that when vacation hits. I think it would be great if they could be included with Gem, or some form of them. (they now require zexy, OSC and prepend)
B.
l8r, jamie
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