Peter Plessas wrote:

Hi,

pix_movie and pix_film have a right inlet to play frames manually. So a counter and a metro at 25fps could do the job by simply pausing the

even better than e [metro] would be to derive the frame-clock from the gem-objects itself. like in

[gemhead] | [t a b] | +--->[counter] | [pix_film] |

Not sure if turning the gemhead off with a toggle will pause playback as well, or just disable rendering, but give it a try (if you want a black screen instead of a still movie frame).

i think on os-x thils will just disable rendering.

additionally i think that playback with the [counter] will not perform as good as with "auto" (on osX)

mfg.asdr. IOhannes

Should I be sending this [rate 1$( message to the left inlet of the [pix_movie] object?

As when I try this, it causes the video to pause but then I can't make it restart without destroying the Gem window, deleting the two rate 1/0 buttons and then re-starting the patch?

Jonathan

On 23/1/06 16:02, "chris clepper" cgc@humboldtblvd.com wrote:

On 1/23/06, IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig@iem.at wrote:

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Jonathan Goodwin wrote:

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Is there a way to pause a video file being played back through GEM? (OS X)

I'm currently using a Playstation controller to trigger video playback, which I am stopping/starting by routing a signal to a toggle controlling the "auto $1" playback message. (This is all the same as in the GEM help files.)

ah, and you could try a [speed 0( message to hold the video (and [speed 1( to proceed.

the message is [rate $1(

Hi all,

Thanks for all the advice, I can now confirm the following solution appears to be working:

Sending a message of [rate 0( or [rate 1( to the [pix_movie] object will pause or play the video respectively without re-starting the clip

I have also maintained the [auto 1$( message to the [pix_movie] object so that the video will auto start on it's first play, with no initially visible problems.

Jonathan

On 23/1/06 21:45, "chris clepper" cgc@humboldtblvd.com wrote:

On 1/23/06, Jonathan Goodwin jonathan@jgoodwin.co.uk wrote:

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Should I be sending this [rate 1$( message to the left inlet of the [pix_movie] object?

As when I try this, it causes the video to pause but then I can't make it restart without destroying the Gem window, deleting the two rate 1/0 buttons and then re-starting the patch?

Does pix_film do the same thing? Also, try using 'auto 0' to pause. I have fixed up the pause function since the release of 0.90 - it's a bit tricky with QT handling the playback via 'auto' and 'rate'.