[PD] a really fast-to-read codec in linux?

Alexandre Castonguay acastonguay at artengine.ca
Fri Sep 24 14:01:14 CEST 2010


  Hi,

Did you try photo jpeg?

Best of luck,

Alexandre

Le 10-09-24 05:34, Matteo Sisti Sette a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I'm desperately looking for a codec to code video files with so that 
> pix_film will be able to read them with the best performance. I don't 
> care if the compression rate is very low, as long as the quality is 
> good and reading is fast.
>
> Does anybody know any?
>
> Mjpeg seems to perform quite well, but not well enough. Maybe that's 
> the best performance I can expect and I have to reduce the video 
> resolution but I would like to be sure.
>
> H.264 has the problem that has been mentioned due to an issue of 
> gstream with frame seeking that makes it terribly slow in linux.
>
> I'm trying all the codecs I see listed in avidemux, but there are so 
> many and with so many configuration settings that I don't quite 
> understand, and many of them just make Pd crash.
>
>
> By the way I would also like to know the answer to the same question 
> in Mac. As far as I have seen, though, video with GEM seems to perform 
> always much worst in Mac than in Windows and Linux with any codec 
> (except h264 that has a big issue in linux only) - Mathieu said he 
> probably knew the cause of this which was not related to codecs.
>
>
> thanks
> m.
>
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