marius schebella wrote:
> I am also working on a project like this (with thomas grill, who solved
> many problems before I even thought of them...). in principle
> synchronisation works fine.
> now your may ask why do other people pay so much money for expensive
> hardware?
> the problem lies in details: first resolution: for some cases you want
> to go with the highest available resolution 1080p (and in the future
> even more), and suddenly you will see small appearance of jitter, mostly
> because quicktime is different inside a quicktime player and outside
> quicktime, also because in most cases you have to convert color formats.
> then, compensating a drift without losing frames is very tricky.
> from my experience so far, Pd solutions only work up to 720p and only if
> you use a drift compensating algorithm - sending a bang for every frame
> over the network always causes jitter (although you may not notice).
> It is no big effort to try a pd version and see if you are happy with it.
> marius.
>
> altern wrote:
>> hi
>>
>> I need to have several video outputs that run in sync. A friend who
>> works in a art exhibition space told me there would be couple of
>> solutions for this but both involve buying pretty expensive equipment
>> like special DVD players.
>>
>> I thought then that a solution for this issue could be to have several
>> computers on a local network playing video (with GEM) and synchronise
>> them via OSC. But I dont have any experience doing such a thing, never
>> used OSC for anything similar. Also I dont have a clue about how to
>> synchronise together videos.
>>
>> Has anyone done anything similar? any experiences to share?
>>
>> thanks!
>>
>> enrike
>>
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