On Fri, 24 Sep 2010, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote:
By the way I would also like to know the answer to the same question in Mac. As far as I have seen, though, video with GEM seems to perform always much worst in Mac than in Windows and Linux with any codec (except h264 that has a big issue in linux only) - Mathieu said he probably knew the cause of this which was not related to codecs.
What did I say ? I thought I said that if your video uses a codec which requires more CPU than the computer with provide to the codec, then the codec may look like it wants 250% cpu or something else ridiculously high, when in fact it may very well need 91% cpu while pd can only provide 90% to it. This would be because it tries to skip frames and fails spectacularly at it because the format is not designed to allow it. I first saw this problem in MAX, but that's because I don't use video files very often, and when I do, it's almost always in the plain JPEG codec, which is frame-seekable.
| Mathieu Bouchard ------------------------------ Villeray, Montréal, QC