<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>It seems to me that this should feature prominently in the docs somewhere. Something like "[pix_movie] is for special cases where you want to enable certain optimizations that don't work everywhere". Or even better, it would be great if [pix_movie] did work everywhere.</div><div><br></div><div>.hc</div><br><div><div>On Jan 16, 2012, at 3:42 PM, Pall Thayer wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p>Yes. This fixed the problems I was having.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 16, 2012 3:40 PM, "Hans-Christoph Steiner" <<a href="mailto:hans@at.or.at">hans@at.or.at</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I have found that [pix_movie] does this on many machines, but using [pix_film] connected to a [pix_texture] works everywhere.<br>
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.hc<br>
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On Jan 7, 2012, at 7:48 PM, Pall Thayer wrote:<br>
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> Hi Chris,<br>
><br>
> Thanks for the suggestion but that didn't work.<br>
><br>
> Some other weird issues are that my ".mov" file worked fine on linux<br>
> but not at all on OS X. The only thing that would play it was VLC so I<br>
> used that to transcode it and was able to get it working (albeit with<br>
> the flashing) in other formats. But I noticed that when the frame<br>
> motion was backwards, it would cause clicking in the audio. So I ended<br>
> up transcoding it to jpeg and that got rid of the clicking but I still<br>
> get the flashing.<br>
><br>
> Any more suggestions?<br>
><br>
> Pall<br>
><br>
> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 7:26 PM, chris clepper <<a href="mailto:cgclepper@gmail.com">cgclepper@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Are you doing any pix_ processing? Sometimes still frames get double<br>
>> processed causing unintended results. It has to do with Quicktime not<br>
>> always giving the right indication that a new frame was delivered. Throw a<br>
>> pix_separator in the chain and see if that does anything.<br>
>><br>
>> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Pall Thayer <<a href="mailto:pallthay@gmail.com">pallthay@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> Hi list.<br>
>>><br>
>>> I'm working on a piece that's most likely going to be shown on a Macs<br>
>>> running OS X and I'm running into a strange issue with GEM. The piece<br>
>>> involves a short video clip that moves back and forth amongst the<br>
>>> frames. As long as it's moving between frames, everything is fine. But<br>
>>> as soon as it stops somewhere, it starts alternating between the<br>
>>> correct colors and their opposites causing it to flash. This doesn't<br>
>>> happen on linux, only on OS X. Anyone know why this is happening and<br>
>>> how I can fix it? I've tried a variety of video formats but nothing<br>
>>> seems to make a difference. Also, when it flashes to the opposite<br>
>>> colors, it looks like the resolution changes. Weird.<br>
>>><br>
>>> I would greatly appreciate any and all tips and suggestions.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Pall<br>
>>><br>
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