Hey all,
is "auto 1" supposed to make the video loop, or play through once? I remeber when teaching a workshop that the video only played once, but this was an old beta.
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 its meant to make patching players easier then I think it should be fully implimented (see my film_looper GOP on pure-data.org for an example). This is the first thing students complain about when using video in Gem they expect messages like:
stop play rate [x]
perhaps: in out loop [type]
even qtvr panning, track control, open url etc..
something like the MAX QT object.
At this point I think its not valuable to nick-pick over "auto" when the real solution should be just to build a player right into the pix_* video objects, or keep the nessesity (as in older versions) to make your own player. (and drop "auto" altogether, its just not intuitive!)
my opinion anyhow.
B. ----- Original Message ----- From: "IOhannes zmoelnig" zmoelnig@iem.kug.ac.at To: cclepper@users.sourceforge.net Cc: GEM-dev@iem.at Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 6:30 AM Subject: [GEM-dev] Re: Gem/src/Pixes pix_filmDarwin.cpp,1.18,1.18
cclepper@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
Update of /cvsroot/pd-gem/Gem/src/Pixes In directory sc8-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv9968
Modified Files: pix_filmDarwin.cpp Log Message: rewrite to make playback using 'auto' more efficient. 'rate' message
sets the playback speed when using 'auto' mode.
the movie rate is properly set for correct qt playback.
hi. i have already implemented something similar under linux, but of course, differently. i am simply using the argument to "auto" as the framerate. so with "auto 0", no auto-playback is used, with "auto 1", we have normal speed playback. with "auto 0.5", we have half-speed playback.
is this confusing to the user ?
mfg.as.dr IOhannes
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