Jitter Destroying CPU - Can I use GPU?

sixtin's icon

This may seem a stupid question as I'm not so sure what I'm talking about. Anyway, I have a patch that does camera tracking, live visuals and MSP synthesis and processing which seems just too much for my laptop.

A friend told me it is possible to move the jitter processing to the GPU, and while i know what a GPU is, I'm not exactly sure what this means or how I'd go about doing it.

I have an Intel MacBook Pro, on of the Core Duo models from 4 years ago so it has a good graphics card but not lot of RAM or CPU.

Thanks if anyone can help me.

vade's icon

Yup. Check out all of the Open GL tutorials. jit.gl.slab is your friend. Take a look at my optimization patches to get an idea of basics of moving video to the GPU.

Andrew Benson's icon

Hi, check out the Video Processing System tutorials on this website for a good intro to working with GPU video processing.

AB