[PD] GEM: pix_film terribly slow in Ubuntu

matteo sisti sette matteosistisette at gmail.com
Tue Aug 17 23:24:39 CEST 2010


Is there anything more I can try to find out what's wrong? I'm a bit
desperate...

I'm getting significantly better performance in Windows 7 on a virtual
machine on Ubuntu than natively in Ubuntu....


Thank you
m.





2010/8/16 Matteo Sisti Sette <matteosistisette at gmail.com>:
> On 08/16/2010 05:37 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>
>> If a movie decoding induces frame skipping, the frame skipping consumes
>> a lot more CPU than the normal decoding. I've seen this happen in MAX as
>> well.
>
> The slowness and high CPU consumption happens even with "auto 1": shouldn't
> frame skipping happen only for speeds greater than the original framerate
> (that is, only when you actually have to skip frames)?
>
> OR, maybe, it could also be expectable, if the implementation is not "overly
> smart", that it would do frame skipping (even to skip from frame n to frame
> n itself) whenever "auto" mode is turned off
>
>>
>> Can you put it in slow motion (play at a lesser fps than what's
>> indicated by the file) and confirm that below a certain wanted fps, it
>> starts to take radically less real time per logical time ? that should
>> be when it stops skipping frames.
>
> I don't understand that very well: it should stop "skipping" frames as soon
> as the wanted fps is _equal_ to the file's fps; if you go much lower, I
> would guess it would actually not only stop "skipping" frames, but stop
> _decoding_ frames when it just repeats the same frame
>
> Indeed, if it started taking less real time per frame only when demanded a
> _very_ low fps, I would rather interpret that it is actually doing "frame
> skipping" every time it is asked for a new frame, whichever it is (even the
> next one), except when it is the same frame it is already at.
>
> ...what am I missing?
>
>



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