[PD] project help and suggestions

Jack jack at rybn.org
Wed Aug 25 15:40:36 CEST 2010


Le mardi 24 août 2010 à 19:32 -0400, Martin Eckart a écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm working on a project that I'd like some technical input on in order
> to make it more efficient than I have it.  For reference I'm working
> with PD-Extended on Ubuntu 10.4.
> 
> I have a digital camera taking jpeg images at regular (2 or 3 second)
> intervals which download automatically to a directory on my laptop
> (connected via usb using gphoto2).  I want to load those images into pd
> using gem for display onscreen as well as some other analysis.
> 
> Now the way I have it right now, each time an image is downloaded a hook
> script converts it to 1 frame of mpeg2 video and gets concatenated to
> the end of a cumulative mpeg video file.  In pd, I load the video with
> pix_film and display it.  This works reasonably well, however, I need to
> load the same video again in order to get the most recent images and
> that reload makes video playback stutter (not bad but enough to notice).
> Does anyone have any suggestions on other ways I could go about this?
> Some thoughts I have so far:
> 
> 1) maybe pix_film has a 'reload' or similar option to just load the
> newest frames?
> 2) maybe there's a way to play it as if it's a streaming video and just
> load the newest frames as they come?
> 3) maybe pix_image is more what I'm looking for?  Forget the encoding to
> video and just load each image individually to a buffer?  I think this
> can be problematic since there will be hundreds of images and loading
> them all to RAM will get too big for my paltry 2gb.
For me the 3) is the simplest way to achieve what you are looking for.
Use [pix_video], [pix_buffer], [pix_buffer_read], [pix_buffer_write].
An example is attached.
++

Jack


> 
> I'm grateful for any of your suggestions.
> 
> Cheers,
> -martin
> 
> 
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