[PD-dev] call for discussion: native video for Pd

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Sun, 28 May 2006, Christian Klippel wrote:

> otoh, when only processing small chunks of a stream at a time, which you 
> can with quite some operations/effects, you can speed up processing a 
> lot because it is very likely that the processed data is held in the 
> cache throughout the processing chain. an ideal system would allow for 
> different methods/sizes at once. that way you can do, for example, big 
> convolutions on a whole-frame basis, while at the same time you can do 
> very perfomant mixing, blending, etc... of streams in chunks, where 
> applicable.

This sounds a lot like GridFlow except for the fact that GridFlow isn't 
particularly fast. A well-rewritten version of GridFlow could be the 
fastest video-plugin in the west.

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