At 8:21 AM -0700 11/21/03, thewade wrote:
No, I mean the audio stream being interupted for a screen refresh. I have a line object move from 0 to the last frame of the movie, using pix_movie and if I set make [gemwin 30] for example, there is a 30 Hz clicking in the audio stream.
I see. That's no damn good, and unfortunately there's nothing that can be done about it currently. Pd blocks audio output when the GEM render chain runs. Threading might help this out if both processes were light enough that the CPU could complete them both in the designated time period.
Where is the syntax and list of messages for the pix_film object? Will this help?
The help file for pix_film needs updating, but my tutorial covers the counter playback method. You can find it here: http://taproot.dyndns.org/~cgc/tutorial_gem/index.html
If theres no x86 64bit machine out by the time the g5's are in laptop form, then I will get a g5 and put linux on it. I just remember coding being a pain on Mac's because of the protection of all their proprietary hardware. Haterid of the black box approach I guess. Viva open source!
The only 'black box' issues I've run into on OSX are related to lack of documentation of APIs. I haven't seen any direct evidence that this is meant for 'protection of all their proprietary hardware' (x86 hardware is all proprietary anyway - you or I can't change Asus' motherboard design or affect Nvidia's GPUs in any real way - plus they own the rights to all of there wares which is the meaning of proprietary). There are benefits with having control over both hardware and software as well, and this is no more evident than the brilliant CHUD performance tools. Shark/Shikari has been responsible for pointing out nearly every one of GEM's performance problems, and in many cases we never would have found these issues without these tools. Intel has VTune for x86, but I don't see an open source set of tools that come close to doing what CHUD can do on OSX and PPC.
Thanks for the help! -thewade
Sure, any time.
cgc
Ya, what I said ^ | dito
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