Cycling 74 » Topic: Films to TV screens http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/films-to-tv-screens/feed Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:53:03 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=2.2.4 http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/films-to-tv-screens/#post-63491 <![CDATA[Films to TV screens]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/films-to-tv-screens/#post-63491 Tue, 08 May 2012 18:21:09 +0000 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.

Any pointers would be great, thanks,

Jem

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/films-to-tv-screens/#post-228894 <![CDATA[Re: Films to TV screens]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/films-to-tv-screens/#post-228894 Thu, 10 May 2012 19:40:29 +0000 Luke Woodbury 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 (http://cycling74.com/forums/topic.php?id=35679)? Though you say you have quality issues too which these options won’t help with.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/films-to-tv-screens/#post-228895 <![CDATA[Re: Films to TV screens]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/films-to-tv-screens/#post-228895 Fri, 18 May 2012 22:34:01 +0000 t3mpuser 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?

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/films-to-tv-screens/#post-228896 <![CDATA[Re: Films to TV screens]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/films-to-tv-screens/#post-228896 Sat, 19 May 2012 04:08:33 +0000 zlp 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.

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