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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>a) yes, a switchable mode is an obvious
improvement,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>though the same can be achieved by having two
frames,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>one for stills and one for video.. this way you can
also</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>do transparencies (alpha mode of fs.copy)
etc.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>b&c) well the way of recording should be as
general as possible.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>writing a video file is the next thing i'll do,
though i'm afraid</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>it will consume too much cpu for anything else
to be very</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>realtime anymore </FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2>(except when using a hardware compression</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>codec?).</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A href="mailto:ydegoyon@free.fr" title=ydegoyon@free.fr>Yves Degoyon</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at"
title=pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at>pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, August 30, 2001 2:46
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [PD] [FRAMESTEIN] Some questions
about video</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>some questions were aroused today </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>by my video-artist friend and, well,
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I submit them to you, Juha Vehviläinen <<A
href="mailto:jusu@iki.fi">jusu@iki.fi</A>>,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>through the pd list because they are of a general
interest :</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>a/ we noticed that a frame is able to load a
video AND </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>separate images at the same
time,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>but images are always ON TOP of the
video,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the only way of removing them is to send
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>a "clear" message to the frame</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>and this makes you loose all the loaded
images.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>can we hope that they will behave as layers
one day</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>so that we could show an image or the video
??</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>it could be a switch mode or a transparency
effect</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>( would prefer the later, of course
).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>b/ is there a way that a frame could be sent
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>to a video specific card like a Miro DC30
??</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>c/ as i'm not hopping a positive answer to point
b/</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>( I'm quite ignorant of Direct X but I know it's
not open tech,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>so it must be a tough matter to redirect output
),</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>we'd be grateful if there would be a video
recording object one day.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The goal of points b/ and c/ is to record the
work you do in real-time.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for clarifications.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yves
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