[PD] GEM quirky-ness on OS X

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

It seems to me that this should feature prominently in the docs somewhere.  Something like "[pix_movie] is for special cases where you want to enable certain optimizations that don't work everywhere".  Or even better, it would be great if [pix_movie] did work everywhere.

.hc

On Jan 16, 2012, at 3:42 PM, Pall Thayer wrote:

> Yes. This fixed the problems I was having.
> 
> On Jan 16, 2012 3:40 PM, "Hans-Christoph Steiner" <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
> 
> 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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