am I the only one?

any confirmation would be welcome, as I can reproduce this on all the machines I have tested

p

It's not just you.. I'm on a MBP C2D, 10.6.6 and half my screen is eaten up by the image. Had to quit max to get rid of it..

the same here. pretty strange. MacBookPro5,3 - 10.6.6

thanks to you both, I am happy to know it is generalised.

I will probably sent a message to support now, but in the meantime I could do with some help trying to go around this.

What I try to do is to play random clips from a large pool (over 40 clips) without any latency while I switch. The clips can be up to 3 minutes so no RAM preload is possible.

the current approach is to have 2 jit.qt.play sent to the same window, one reading whilst the other one preload. I have problems with this. If I use read, I get the read file to 'publish' a frame when loaded (despite being stopped). i was hoping that asyncread would not to that but I get this strange bug...

any help/pointer welcome!

pa

any idea before I send this to support?

Thanks for the report, I can repro some problems with @window and asyncread, we will take a closer look.

-Ben

Dear Ben

What approach would you take to try to achieve instant random access in the meantime? 2 alternating jit.qt.player with real matrix output to 2 openGL textures preloading? It will definitely be more heavy in term of passing full resolution films to textures than to use the 'direct_to_window' trick...

thanks for your help

pa

Hi Pierre,

In this case, the @window attribute is causing the problems, so just avoid this. Use a patch cord or a send/receive pair.

You might want to check out Andrew Benson's excellent VPS tutorial:

It uses poly~ to asyncread/loadram a video bank.

But maybe I'm not understanding your issue now. If so, please feel free to send along a simple example patch.

-Ben

Dear ben

I cannot use loadram because the clip pool is too big. I'll go through a gl.texture.

There was talks of having an attribute to jit.qt.movie to play straight to a texture, is that in the pipeline or has it been put on the wishlist?

thanks

pa