hello, Gem is mostly design to work on the GPU, and not on the CPU. GPU have hundreds of core, they are faster than CPU for image manipulations.
pix_add come from the 20th century and should now be avoid since it use cpu not gpu ;-)
in order to make a fade transition between 2 videos, you can use transparency on one video. add a [alpha] object after Gemhead, and send number between 0 and 1 in the last inlet of the colorRGB object to make the video appear / disapear.
cheers c
Le 26/02/2013 21:33, Stephan Elliot Perez a écrit :
Hello, So, looking at the help file for [pd~], it seems to be primarily for audio. How can I use multiple cores to work purely with GEM? I am trying to have a simple transition between video clips, but if I have two instances of pix_film and then connect them to pix_add, the CPU-ussage skyrockets well above 100... is there a more efficient object for blending two video clips?
Best regards, Stephan
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Thomas Mayer <thomas@residuum.org mailto:thomas@residuum.org> wrote:
Hi, On 03.02.2013 22:48, Stephan Elliot Perez wrote: > I am talking about PD's CPU meter. I don't have the impression that PD > takes full advantage of 2 quad-core processors. When processing audio, > anything over 100 in PD's meter will lead to glitched audio. I am just > wondering if it will be much more when I load other videos and transition > between them. Pd will only use one core, and one core for the GUI. There are ways to distribute the load over several cores, e.g. [pd~] or use several instances of Pd that communicate with each others: http://www.mail-archive.com/pd-list@iem.at/msg33319.html Hth, Thomas -- "Spielen Sie Strip Schnipp-Schnapp?" (Adam Weishaupt to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in: Robert Shea & Robert A. Wilson, The Golden Apple) http://www.residuum.org/ _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at <mailto:Pd-list@iem.at> mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
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