[PD] GEM quirky-ness on OS X

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I have found that [pix_movie] does this on many machines, but using [pix_film] connected to a [pix_texture] works everywhere.

.hc

On Jan 7, 2012, at 7:48 PM, Pall Thayer wrote:

> Hi Chris,
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion but that didn't work.
> 
> Some other weird issues are that my ".mov" file worked fine on linux
> but not at all on OS X. The only thing that would play it was VLC so I
> used that to transcode it and was able to get it working (albeit with
> the flashing) in other formats. But I noticed that when the frame
> motion was backwards, it would cause clicking in the audio. So I ended
> up transcoding it to jpeg and that got rid of the clicking but I still
> get the flashing.
> 
> Any more suggestions?
> 
> Pall
> 
> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 7:26 PM, chris clepper <cgclepper at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Are you doing any pix_ processing?  Sometimes still frames get double
>> processed causing unintended results.  It has to do with Quicktime not
>> always giving the right indication that a new frame was delivered.  Throw a
>> pix_separator in the chain and see if that does anything.
>> 
>> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Pall Thayer <pallthay at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi list.
>>> 
>>> I'm working on a piece that's most likely going to be shown on a Macs
>>> running OS X and I'm running into a strange issue with GEM. The piece
>>> involves a short video clip that moves back and forth amongst the
>>> frames. As long as it's moving between frames, everything is fine. But
>>> as soon as it stops somewhere, it starts alternating between the
>>> correct colors and their opposites causing it to flash. This doesn't
>>> happen on linux, only on OS X. Anyone know why this is happening and
>>> how I can fix it? I've tried a variety of video formats but nothing
>>> seems to make a difference. Also, when it flashes to the opposite
>>> colors, it looks like the resolution changes. Weird.
>>> 
>>> I would greatly appreciate any and all tips and suggestions.
>>> 
>>> Pall
>>> 
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