[PD] scrolling with translate

[simon wise]

On 13 Nov 2007, at 8:35 AM, tom tlalim wrote:

> ah, nice one - thanx!
> great idea to load image parts while scrolling! this enables panoramas
> of different lengths.
> the only issue is i get a little jump in scrolling speed when new
> files get loaded (mine are 1500 X 425 ±400k each)

yes - it depends on your machine, if it is fast enough then you can  
get away with loading without it being too noticeable, otherwise to  
get it smooth on a slower machine you need to have multiple  
[pix_image] objects and load them all first. Depending on the desired  
results you can play around with the [gemwin] rate and with the  
resolution and compression of your image files (different codecs may  
load faster, no compression could be an advantage and Gem scales  
lower resolutions up quite nicely). You could also try tricks like  
making a ramdisk to hold the files in ram - then loading them to the  
GPU could be faster but I haven't needed to go down that path yet. It  
is possible that you could do the file reading/texturing happen in  
one instance of pd with a lower priority and pass the texture ID  
across to another pd which does the playing - but this may just be  
fantasy and I certainly haven't tried it.

What I have generally done for performances is make sure nothing  
unnecessary is running on the machines that run the video mixing  
patch, and running pd -nogui controlling everything via a midi fader  
desk or from a pd control patch on another computer on the network.  
This has worked well for me running video clips, live camera and  
still images on several screens from 1 controller.


simon