[jitter] best Max / Jitter / Windows / PC desktop setup?

5 to 6 streams might have a harddrive bottleneck depending on the  
bitrate of each movies and the max bitrate of your drive combined with  
Unix's (OS X's) everything is a file paradigm.

Id suggest looking at your patch and optimizing as much as you can. I  
hate to say it but not much is greener on the other side as far as I  
am aware. Id say your best bet is optimization and external drives  
(eSata with a 3/4 expresscard beats FW 800 for throughput btw).

Check out my optimization patches, they can be helpful and follow  
regular Max programming guidelines. Without a patch no one will have a  
clue.



On Jan 4, 2008, at 2:00 AM, james wrote:

>
> Hi,
> I've always been a mac user - but because of playback issues with  
> Jitter & my MBP 17"-  I was thinking maybe the grass is greener on  
> the "other side"? ...I'm thinking - buy a PC and customize for  
> realtime video playback?
> (like a nice high-end 768mb video card & RAID)
>
>
> Has anyone else taken this route?
> Maybe Quicktime and Jitter are happier in PC land? smoother - better  
> frame rates? or not?
>
>
> I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction as to  
> which version of Windows (jeez so many) would be best for a Max/ 
> Jitter set up. My main patch is a polyphonic video 'instrument' (or  
> mixer) which can play up to 5 or 6 SD (640 480 JPEG)  video streams,  
> smoothly  - video output will go to a separate machine for  
> recording. (mac / FCP )
>
> any pointers / comparisons, experiences etc would be greatly  
> appreciated!
>
> thanks!
> - jt
>
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