[PD-dev] Re: [PD] pix_image threading

[bbogart at ryerson.ca]

Hello all,

I'm finding very little in terms of options for the 500ms delay in rendering when loading an image file. I can't use a movie because my images need to be masked. Can't use pix_multiimage because I'm talking about about 800 images, called up on the fly. 

So is it possible that the pix_image image loader be put in a seperate thread? (or all the pd/gem disk IO ideally)  Is anyone working on an experimental version of this I could use? 

Or does anyone have any non-thread ideas so solve the render-stop problem?

Thanks all.
Ben

----- Original Message -----
From: Miller Puckette <mpuckett at man104-1.ucsd.edu>
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2002 9:27 pm
Subject: Re: [PD] soundfiler threading

> Hi all,
> 
> The threaded version is readsf~ ... you can use it to gently read a
> soundfile into a table using tabwrite~.
> 
> cheers
> Miller
> 
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 09:30:47AM -0600, eskogen at usfamily.net wrote:
> > hi list,
> > 
> > i'm doing a live set this week and i wish i would have mentioned 
> this sooner. it's getting to be the one most troubling thing about 
> using pd live.
> > 
> > i'm running win2k pd .35-1 and i get about a one second delay 
> every time i use soundfiler to load a sample. i'm using the USB 
> Quattro with ASIO (to good results) and the latency of everything 
> else is acceptable.
> > 
> > is there any possibility that soundfiler could be put in a 
> seperate thread? are there any other options to load in a .wav 
> file? these files aren't more than 1 or 2 megabytes, i'm suprised 
> there's such a problem.
> > 
> > the only solution i can think of is to readsf~ the sound into a 
> table, as that seems to be threaded or something as to keep the 
> sound from skipping.
> > 
> > ANY help at this late hour would be appreciated!
> > 
> > --eric
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ------ http://USFamily.Net/info - Unlimited Internet - From 
> $8.99/mo! ------
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > PD-list mailing list
> > PD-list at iem.kug.ac.at
> > http://iem.kug.ac.at/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pd-list
> 
> _______________________________________________
> PD-list mailing list
> PD-list at iem.kug.ac.at
> http://iem.kug.ac.at/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pd-list
>