i found the flag to set for high_quality and added that to the code. there are several other modes and i will look into adding those as well.
Thanks. So that others don't take this performance hit, would you consider dedicating a couple commands (messages to the [pix_videoDarwin] object) for this? I dunno how you're handling this.
i've added a [quality $1( message which understands 0..3 levels of quality. these modes make no difference visible or cpu wise using my cheap iBot cam. it most likely only works with DV input, which i don't have at the moment. pix_videoDarwin defaults to 1 which is high quality. there is also a [reset( message that resets the quality chosen by the [quality( message. in the future might be used to change the size of the capture.
I'm actually in PAL-land, but the TV will handle NTSC as well. What you suggest sounds like it. I'll try it as soon as I can get a turn on the telly.
for PAL you might want to try 720*576 which is what PAL DV uses. the TV should like it too. maybe we need a few options for the fullscreen size...
what sort of crash occurs? what's the hardware?
Just Pd falling over. Nothing serious.
can you send a crash log?
HW is a PB12", so the NVidia Go 420.
hmm i'd be interested in seeing how that performs compared to the ati 9000 in my tibook. in general that should be a fine GEM gig box.
Any chance of putting a titlebar on the non-external display window?
sure, at some point. that requires an event loop for the window, which could be tricky. also, another event loop is exactly what pd+GEM does not need at this point.
Right. Good point. But I'm blown away by the performance right now.
well that's encouraging to hear. try to use as much yuv stuff as possible to avoid the 'RGB tax' . [pix_filmYUV] and [yuv_film] both work for now. yuv_videoDarwin will also work on video capture and now has the same features as pix_videoDarwin. at some point the pix_ objects will be able to do both color-spaces but right now openGL doesn't like switching them on the fly.
cgc
Cheers, adam
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