[jitter] Re: Re: How to get jit.qt.movie to output bangs on clip start and end?

no, don't mess around with loading RAM.  look at the poly~-movies  
example.  un-black it, unskein it.  you will see that it's an ideal  
solution.  big trick:  send a rate 0 message to the movie you are  
switching FROM before you switch to the next movie.  you'll get  
amazing performance.

On Sep 2, 2007, at 12:07 PM, Christopher Becks wrote:

>
> Yea, if you look at the mess of a patch I linked to a few posts  
> ago, I was trying that but ended up getting confused by the poly~  
> object.  Well, not quite, but I stopped using it because it wasn't  
> providing smooth playback from one video to the next, likely  
> because I wasn't using it properly.
>
> Enabling preroll has had no effect on the load time of a clip, but  
> if I understand it can only preroll the current movie to be quickly  
> restarted.  So, that's a no go.
>
> Loadram seems to expunge any previously loaded video, so that's  
> also a no go, unless I'm wrong.
>
> Asyncread is just trying to jump ahead in the video after the pause  
> of loading, instead of starting at the beginning.
>
> So, it may be back to the poly~ object, unless I can load all of  
> the videos into RAM (with loadram or otherwise) as opposed to just  
> one at a time.
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