[PD] most stable/efficient way/object to play large video files?

[Roman Haefeli]

On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 17:09 -0500, chris clepper wrote:
> The size of the movie on disk should be irrelevant.  It can be two
> frames or twenty hours long and it makes no difference since only one
> frame is used at a time.  
> 
> pix_film/movie on OSX has worked well over an incalculable amount of
> testing.


while working for a installation setup, we're using a quicktime movie
(.mov) with an mjpeg encoded video stream with Gem/[pix_film], that
ships with current stable pd-extended, on an ubuntu hardy machine and we
hadn't experienced a crash in the video part yet. 

i don't know, if and how much it matters, but i would try different
formats/codecs. i guess, that interframe based (xvid/h264/mpeg4|2)
codecs should be avoided and intraframe based codecs (jpeg/mjpg/dv) are
recommended. the quicktime format seems to run well on all platforms
(you need to have quicktime installed on windows and libquicktime on
linux)

roman
 
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Martin . <blindmanonacid at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         Hi all,
>         
>         I need to play some video files (~700mb) in a theatre setting,
>         which
>         demands stability. Till now ive used pix_film, but there has
>         been some
>         crashes at seemingly random times when loading the files. Im
>         wondering
>         if there are any precautions or desired objects to use
>         (pix_film,
>         pix_movie, pdp, ...) that are more more stable? Also, is any
>         object
>         more efficient for dealing with larger files?
>         
>         cheers,
>         Martin
>         
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