[PD] GEM pix_buffer question

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Hmm, it seems that the "ram" message never made it into the pix_film/ 
movie help patches.  Are there any details that should be added?

.hc

On Jun 23, 2008, at 6:35 PM, chris clepper wrote:

> pix_buffer store the frames uncompressed which is many times larger  
> than DV.  You may try the 'ram' message for pix_film/movie which  
> will load the compressed QT mov into RAM.
>
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:18 AM, rainer _ <jepoxy at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> just have rebuilt one of my patches to fetch single videoframes not  
> from harddisc but from RAM with the pix_buffer objects. It works  
> great, about 20 times faster - the problem is I can`t load more  
> than 960 frames of Quicktime DV PAL in RAM and the 2 GB of RAM are  
> full.... this is strange because the hole file of about 4 min. has  
> about 500 MB.
>
> Any idea why?
>
>  GEM Vers. 0.90 on WinXP
>
> thanks,
> Rainer
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