[GEM-dev] pix_video again

[Erich Berger]

hi chris,

of course pix_film !
- she is using osx on a minimac with the
version u have commited a bug fix (for pix_fim)
on 8th of november.

best

erich


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On Thu, 11 May 2006, chris clepper wrote:

> I think you mean pix_film or pix_movie.  What OS and GEM version?
>
> On 5/11/06, Erich Berger <eb at randomseed.org> wrote:
>> 
>> hi,
>> 
>> i have some question regarding memory management and pix_video.
>> a friend of mine is using it for playing in some certain order about 70
>> small clips for an installation. she had it test running the whole night
>> and reported that is was becoming extremly slow when she had a look at it
>> in the morning. i had no possibility to check the stuff but i guess that
>> it is because the memory got full by constantly loading the clips.
>> 
>> now the questions:
>> 
>> when pix_video is loading another clip, is it freeing the memory which
>> took the clip played before or does it stay in the memory ?
>> 
>> when the same clip is played again after playing another one is it loaded
>> again into the memory or is the one already loaded before used again ?
>> 
>> is there a method to clear the memory taken over by all this loaded
>> films without restarting pd ?
>> 
>> best
>> 
>> erich
>> 
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