[PD] stability of Gem for video playing

[Nicolas Sauret]

Cool, precious infos.
I'm playing 1024*768 files but photo-jpeg codec but I can't make it work 
so far (cf thread green split pictures). Would GEM work better than 
pdp/pidip ?
what is the avantage of one on another ? I'm playing the videos onwards 
(forwards in english ?) and using PD essentially for synchronisation issue.
thanks
++
nicolaos.



>>which was ??? (the codec)
>>what did you use ? gem ? pdp ? linux ?
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>I've been using Pd 0.39 GEM 0.90 with a DV camera and video files on a
>Debian Linux box for over a year now for several dance and theatre plays
>without a single crash during a performance. 
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>As of today, I use .mov files with the MJPEG codec , encoded through the
>MJPEG tools, no sound. My only concern has been the huge amount of CPU
>needed by Gem to play a mjpeg movie (about 50% for a 640x480 at 25fps video
>on an Athlon XP3000+ powered Shuttle, although VLC, Cinelerra or Totem
>needs at most 10% to play a 1024x768 movie using the same codec).
>Unfortunately, I need to play videos at random frames, and sometimes
>even backwards, since that I can solely use a spatial compressor. For
>"onwards-only" videos, I play .ogg files using theora codec.
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>Personnally , I guess the whole system stability is strongly related to
>the OS (Linux/Debian Sid, 2.6.15 kernel tuned by a friend of mine), it's
>not rare to see the CPU usage jump up to 120% for a while when running
>too many FXs at the same time. Nevertheless, it never crashes, the
>machine as well as the patch have lately been running flawlessly for 3
>weeks .
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>a+
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>Olivier
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