hiya,
On Feb 28, 2005, at 10:32 AM, David Merrill wrote:
video playback: what's the best way to do this? (if I have a .avi, or some other format that I want to play fullscreen, and advance frames in response to other PD events) I read a little about GEM and it seems very good for 3D rendering, but it was not clear to me if it can be used for video - so Framestein seemed like the obvious choice. Am I correct in this?
...GEM can do video playback just fine: just make sure you use the latest version 0.90-1, especially if you are on windoze and use video cameras...video/movie playback is simply a texturing operation, so the 3d portion can in effect be ignored...but it's useful for compensating bad projection angles, or doing whatever else...
...pdp/pidip are also good for video, but require a lot of extra libraries to compile, and generally want to run under X11...gridflow is also good and allows for extremely low-level processing...also don't forget MaPod, but I've never used it...
Framestein:
...framestein is windoze only, so can't help ya there...
l8r, james