Hello pd-folks, I have a general question about video playback, and a specific one about Framestein that I would greatly appreciate your expertise on:
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?
Framestein: I've got it installed, and am trying to get to a "hello world" using the 01.example-video patch. Framestein seems to start ok, then after I drag an .avi into the window, I try to scrub it with the horizontal slider. Almost nothing happens with the video, and I get a series of messages from pd saying: "netsend blocked X msec" where X is an integer like 6,5,98,etc.. I also tried changing the endpoints on the slider to no avail.
I am using pd.37-1 and Framestein 0.32
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, -David Merrill