[PD-dev] [GEM] more on YUV (was: postrendering crashes)

[IOhannes zmoelnig]

chris clepper wrote:
> There are lots of differences between the GEM versions already, a large 
> one being the way video files are handled.  The QuickTime API on Mac and 
> Windows* extends far beyond the simple handling of video files, and 
> includes support for things like VR and streaming.  Also, the OpenGL 
> implementations are different for every platform, the OSX version is 
> using features specific to it like Rectangular Textures and YUV 
> Texturing.  My argument here is to not hold back development on one 
> platform based on lack of features on the others.  The core features of 
> GEM would be the same, but the 'extras' would capitalize on strengths of 
> each platform.

my idea was to use platform features as long as you could at least trick 
all other systems (that dont have this feature) to do something similar.
like with pix_texture2 and rectangular textures.
if macOS can make it faster, good use it then, on other OSs use a 
generic solution.
if quicktime on Mac and Win32 supports streaming AND it is likely that 
there will be a similar mechanism for linux too, use it.
If (expand all specific names like "quicktime" to anything) linux does 
NOT allow streamin via quicktime, please do not make a [pix_quicktime] 
object that does all kind of things on win/mac (like playing videos, 
streaming, etc) but not on linux.
instead incorporate the video-playback of quicktime into the [pix_film] 
object, the streamin caps into [pix_webstream], the dv-caps into 
[pix_dv] and the PDF reader into [pix_acroread]

if there is no chance, that (in the near future) your special 
capabilities will be available on another (or one of those) platform(s), 
use an external mechanism like gemee

> 
> Right now GEM doesn't even play the same video files on every platform.  
> There are platform/device specific objects like pix_DV and tablet etc. 
well, pix_DV does not exist on any platform right now... (does it?)

> BTW, what's gemee?  I've never seen or heard of this before.  It's not 
> mentioned in the GEM docs or on any GEM site that I've seen.

gemee is a collection of externals for Gem (like Gem is for pd) by Günter.
You should be able to find it on xdv.org (but maybe not, i couldn't 
reproduce this now)
there were some experimental objects like using the asciiart-library 
(that's a good example: i don't think that there is an aalib on another 
platform, so this won't go into Gem)

> 
> cgc
> 
> *the Windows version of GEM doesn't use QuickTime right now, but it 
> could be added fairly easily.  Does this interest anyone?
yes


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