[PD] scaling pix_draw in GEM ,and GEM performance question

[Jim Ruxton]

Hi,

I am having trouble scaling images using pix_draw. I thought I could 
scale an image using scale or scaleXYZ before pix_draw but it seems like 
these objects   have no effect. I can scale an image by texture mapping 
onto a square and resizing it but I find it is slower than pix_draw in 
this case. When rendering movies I've found  that texture mapping is 
faster but the image is more distorted. I'm using GEM 0.87 under Linux. 
Is this a problem with pix_draw or is it supposed to work this way? I 
have a fast processor ( 1 GHz) a good video card (Nvidia 2Go) and I find 
movies are playing  quite slowly. I only have 128 MB ram. Just ordered 
another 256 MB hoping this will speed things up. Wondering what other 
people are using to get realtime playback with MPEGs in Linux?
Thanks,
Jim