On Friday, December 12, 2003, at 01:20 PM, zmoelnig@iem.at wrote:
this is not only beta, this is the behviour of "auto" (as i see it):
auto is for playback of a movie with no external counter required: this is especially important, as counters that are triggered via a metro will most probably not play back smoothly; instead one should derive the trigger from the gem-list itself
furthermore it should be aware of stereo-rendering (but this is not yet implemented)
What is the purpose of auto to start with? Is it supposed to make it easier to built patches that have playing video (rather than using a counter+metro). Is it supposed to only allow a looping facility? If
i don't think that i (personally) want the looping facility within the [pix_film]
...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?
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...
l8r, jamie