jemfiner

Is there a way of simply playing back films without processing, maximising quality ?

I am trying to play 3 films from a MacPro, Quad Core, 16 GB RAM, onto 3 TV Screens (Samsung HD).

I'm using Jitter because I want them to stay in sync and because I am also triggering some lights via an Arduino.

I am not doing any processing, just playing them back, or at least that is what I am trying to do.

I've been reading everything I can about optimisation and tried many different combinations of compression, size, frame rate etc, single metro, no updating number boxes etc etc.

Still I hope there may be a way of improving what is pretty mediocre performance and quality.

I tried investigating sending a voc message (as in the second part of tutorial 22) but didn't have a great deal of success. But that seems logical, that there is a way to output to a tv, or optimising for TV screens rather than computer or projector.

I am trying to play 3 films from a MacPro, Quad Core, 16 GB RAM, onto 3 TV Screens (Samsung HD).
I'm using Jitter because I want them to stay in sync and because I am also triggering some lights via an Arduino.

Still I hope there may be a way of improving what is pretty mediocre performance and quality. 

films-to-tv-screens

Have you found all the threads about jit.qt.movie not playing smoothly and about how sometimes cutting one pixel can help? Have you tried jit.BC.QTKit (

https://cycling74.com/forums/announcing-jit-bc-qtkit-osx-only-qtkit-based-jit-qt-movie-replacement)?

 Though you say you have quality issues too which these options won't help with.

Have you found all the threads about jit.qt.movie not playing smoothly and about how sometimes cutting one pixel can help? Have you tried jit.BC.QTKit (https://cycling74.com/forums/announcing-jit-bc-qtkit-osx-only-qtkit-based-jit-qt-movie-replacement)? Though you say you have quality issues too which these options won't help with.


What fps are you getting? (jit.fpsgui) Are you using gl objects to render the video so it's coming off the GPU and not CPU?

For multiple videos, you may need multiple instances of MAX, otherwise you won't be using all your processor cores. See my MultiScreener apps for a solution that uses the network to sync multiple instances of MAX.

http://www.zachpoff.com/software/multiscreener/

Patches are included. 90% of it is just user-interface stuff. The guts are simple and easy to adapt.

I've briefly tried jit.BC.QTKit and it looks great. A big improvement over jit.qt.movie.

For multiple videos, you may need multiple instances of MAX, otherwise you won't be using all your processor cores. See my MultiScreener apps for a  solution that uses the network to sync multiple instances of MAX.
http://www.zachpoff.com/software/multiscreener/
Patches are included. 90% of it is just user-interface stuff. The guts are simple and easy to adapt.

I've briefly tried jit.BC.QTKit and it looks great. A big improvement over jit.qt.movie.


Films to TV screens