[PD] GEM: forcing the use of Quicktime with pix_flim??

[chris clepper]

On Windows, DirectShow is typically much, much faster than Quicktime (which
Apple abandoned a while back).  DirectShow takes advantage of multiple
cores/CPUs while Quicktime does not.

You can play a lot of Quicktime files using DS provided you have the right
codec installed.  I recommend the ffdshow package which covers all of the
MPEGs, JPEGs and so on.

http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Matteo Sisti Sette <
matteosistisette at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> With the latest release of Gem pix_film eats about ten or twenty time more
> CPU than a precompiled binary compiled in August 2006 that I downloaded time
> ago. And it eats so much cpu after opening a file no matter whether it is
> playing it or not (I mean even after disconnecting the gemhead from it).
> That didn't happen in the 2006 version
>
> So I've realised that with the 2006 version of gem, it uses QUICKTIME,
> while when I use the latest version it uses DIRECTSHOW.
>
> Digging into the patch (which I wrote a couple of years ago for the 2006
> version) I notice I opened files with a message like this:
> [open myfile.mov 1(
>
> That "1" is undocumented in the current help patches, but iirc I used it in
> order to force [pix_film] to use quicktime rather than directshow.
>
> Was that feature removed?
> If so, is there another way to force gem to use quicktime rather
> directshow?
> I'd like to test with quicktime to figure out whether this absurdly huge
> cpu consumption is due to the use of DirectShow as opposed to Quicktime, or
> if it is just a bug introduced in some recent version of Gem.
>
> thanks
> m.
>
>
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