I was just wondering if anyone had actually used block~ in a size different than a power of two... and in what specific situation, for what kind of processing.

It's not clear how it is supposed to work for video processing.

anyway, it seems no one has ever done anything with it :)

it seems useless for audio, as most objects will restrict themselves to a power of two.

bang~, for example, will bang at every 128 samples when block is at 100 in size.

cheers

2015-06-18 6:10 GMT-03:00 Roman Haefeli <reduzent@gmail.com>:
On Wed, 2015-06-17 at 22:18 -0300, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
> hi, help file of block says you should use power of two sizes for
> objects, but that you can use any other block size if there's no
> inlet~/outlet~. This is said to be "intended for later use in video
> processing" and I ask: how so?

I can't read Miller's mind, of course, but I could imagine that the idea
is to have arbitrary block sizes so that it is possible to match the
block size to video frames or lines of a video frame or whatever. Then
you could use Pd's DSP engine to process video data in real time.

Does that answer your question?

Roman



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