Ian C

There's a video wall in the lobby of our studio's office and playback stutters, stops and looks lame.

8x 1900x1200 VGA computer monitors in 4x2 Grid

Powered by... AMD x4 3.4Ghz, 8GB RAM, 4x Nvidia GeForce 9500 GT video cards

I created a max patch (with the help of forums responses) that loads random videos from a folder and plays them full screen. A folder of 20 videos (20mb file size generally) where the patch picks a random video and plays it full screen on one of the monitors... 8 different videos, picked randomly, playing at once, across the array of monitors.

Given my hardware setup, is there a way that I can get the videos to play smoothly from Max?

There's a video wall in the lobby of our studio's office and playback stutters, stops and looks lame. 

I created a max patch (with the help of forums responses) that loads random videos from a folder and plays them full screen. A folder of 20 videos (20mb file size generally) where the patch picks a random video and plays it full screen on one of the monitors... 8 different videos, picked randomly, playing at once, across the array of monitors. 

Given my hardware setup, is there a way that I can get the videos to play smoothly from Max?


video-wall-hardwarediagnostics

What are the dimensions of your videos? If they aren;t 640 480, you should make the qt.movie attributes match.

Look into OpenGL playback, like using a videoplane (see vade's oft-referred to post here : 

Is there anything else running on the computer?

Look into OpenGL playback, like using a videoplane (see vade's oft-referred to post here : http://abstrakt.vade.info/?p=147 )

Is there anything else running on the computer?


Video Wall Hardware/Diagnostics