[PD] playback pix_film Gem stutters

[james tittle]

hey sara,

On Mar 6, 2006, at 12:42 AM, sara kolster wrote:
>> ...since you've tried these things and they don't help, I'm  
>> inclined to believe there's something special about this clip:  is  
>> it an edited clip from a longer sequence?  I ask this because it  
>> could be that the last frame is somehow doubled/repeated, but  
>> there may be a loop point which quicktime player sees and obeys,  
>> but gem simply ignores...
> It's not one clip, all clips [quicktime/photo-jpg codec] don't play  
> properly. As I wrote before, Gem is able to play the 'loop' while  
> in [auto $1 (lft inlet of pix_film] mode, but its playback  
> stutters. Using the left inlet of pix_film gives me a smooth  
> playback but a stuttering last frame.

...hmm:  all I can say is that I don't see anything like this with my  
clips, so I've uploaded a copy of the latest gem cvs compile to my  
website, maybe that'll work?

http://www.tigital.com

>> ...my experience with pdp_qt has been spotty on osx, mainly being  
>> a matter of finding a codec that actually gets recognized  
>> correctly...it's been awhile since I really played with it, but I  
>> seem to remember either cinepak or sorenson consistently doing  
>> pretty well...?
> It has been a while for me too. But I believe that the codec  
> quicktime/photojpg was recommended.

...unfortunately not all compressor programs make the same kind of  
file:  it's very easy to think you're compressing as one thing, only  
to have it be another...I've been bitten with this, and in practice  
have found I just need to keep fiddling with parameters in order to  
find something that works as expected in [pdp_qt]...

good luck,
jamie