i am currently not really happy with the interfacing of [pix_record]. basically it has been taken from [pix_write], which was meant for single-frames and not for movies.
what i like least is that there are "bang" (for single frames) "auto 1/0" (for a series of frames) and "record 1/0" for turning recording on/off.
the bad thing is, that while splitting this object into several i have eventually lost the "record" message and now i am missing it :-(
however, i am wondering whether we really need the "auto" and "bang" ways of recording. if somebody really wants to do a "stop-motion" video they can well do so via turning the rendering on/off for the whole (sub)tree where [pix_record] lives.
i am thinking of making [pix_record] close to [writesf~], e.g it only takes an "open"-message to specify the filename, and a "start"/"stop" (or 1/0) pair to start and finish(!) recording.
does this sound bad? will it break patches?
mfg.a.arsdr IOhannes