@joshuawg said:

I can't really use hap, right? 

 Correct, Hap doesn't perform well for real-time compression.

Are Movie Players visibility being turned On/Off regularly or quickly? Or other inputs?
On Mac (Movie Players work slightly different on Mac and PC), you have some preferences that may help. You should try increasing the number of background movie players from the default of 4 to 6 (or more) for both QuickTime and AVFoundation.

If something is occurring that is crashing the movie players, it may be useful to have additional instances ready to pick up the task.  

@reload2024 Yeah -- I've been using AppleProRes — tried going to 422 instead. But since it's all live capture cam to movie, I can't really use hap, right? 

@joshuawg  Only time I've had issues with movie players locking up was using H264 MPGS instead of HAPS. When using HAPS all my freezing issues went away.  Probably not your issue but just throwing it out there. 

I've got a support ticket in — but thought I'd try the group as well since I load in tomorrow and open on Tuesday. Has anyone every encountered movie players that simply lock up and won't play anything? 

some context: I'm currently building a Brady Bunch style video wall that was working really well for months. And then this week, it's started acting up. More info on what've been doing on this thread: https://community.troikatronix...

But suffice to say I've split the signal of a single camera to trick my computer into seeing two cameras that alternately capture 1 minute movies to create the impression of a seamless extended video delay cascading between the video monitors. It takes 24 minutes to populate the video wall with 3 minutes between each monitor. I do the video capture my MacbookPro M1 Max and have been sending a 3840x2160 NDI stage to 2 other computers to handle the outputs. The load has not been outlandish. and my memory has capped out at about 20GB even as it starts to freak out. 

In fact, the live feed and the capture camera to movie actors continues to work great. I can see and hear the files if I watch them on quicktime from the captured folder. The problem has become playback. As the movie players cycle between the minute clips they start to seize up one by one until they won't play anything at all. Until all movie players seize up and won't play anything at all. At first toggling works a bit, but at a certain point the actor becomes as good as frozen. The stage does to. And yet the livestream and the capture continues no problem. When I save and close it doesn't crash. 

I know I asking a lot of the machine, but it doesn't quite make sense that this is just starting now. 

Anyway. Thanks for reading.

J

@mark_m

Thanks for the artcle Mark, Well, I loved the kinect at first (infrared grid) sight. I bought several over the years. And I still believe in it. I did some installations with it that toured quite a bit over the years. Now what is next on the skeleton tracking ? I've been following these developments for years and here a summary of what I know. 

1) with AI it is easy to predict that all monocular rgb cameras will become kinetct-like skeleton tracking devices

We've all seen Mark's FB posts experimenting that with python code.

Google Mediapipe, Open CV, Yolo, Movenet and other frameworks already provide code for pose estimation with monocular rgb vision

2) On the contrary, since some of these models, handle and and finger tracking, I think that Leapmotion will probably die. IA and calculation power is probably going to replace it. We've already seen the ability to track hands for menu and game interactions in Apple Vision pro or Meta Quest 3 MR headset (yes as for this week even META banned the word VR for MR) (MR = mixed reality) 

More to come !!!

Kinect is dead? Long live its (IA) successors !!!

@n-jones Have you guys seen movenet. Apparently is superfast !!!! 

@reload2024 8K is going to be expensive, the controllers dont seem to have drifted down to the cheap gear yet.

Maybe 2x 4K to 1 to 4 video wall controllers will do: https://www.aliexpress.com/ite...

These are so cheap you can buy spares - there sure wont be a warranty service.

The good news is that you can now get a good video card - the NVS 810 does have a lot of outputs but only 4gb memory and it is very old tech.

I'm currently using an NVS810 with 7 projectors attached to my PC which has worked great for the past year, but suddenly its malfunctioning and I can only plug in 6 projectors, plugging in the 7th projector (doesn't matter which port) stops them all from working and suddenly all the projectors say no HDMI signal detected.  Anyway, I'm thinking that since I no longer do edge blending in my immersion room (I have vertical black flocking tape separating the projections which actually looks nice), that I could use a video wall controller instead.  

So I'm wondering if anyone can recommend an AFFORDABLE video wall controller, by that I mean cheap, that can take an 8K input and split it into 8 1024 wide video outputs at 6hz?  Thats all it needs to do, nothing fancy.  And I'd rather not spend thousands of dollars to do it.  Thanks!

@mark_m I have a stereolabs camera (ZED2) and they're great since they're the only ones that have a range of 30+ feet with skeletal tracking. All the rest are limited to small rooms.  I also have over a dozen Kinects that I use in my business, and they're super annoying because ~ 30% of them stop working whenever Windows does a forced update and the drivers need to be re-installed, which isn't always a smooth process.  But I love the Zed 2s, they're great if you have lots of light available since they filter out IR.

@dbini said:

The little scene name buttons at the bottom of the page are all grey, and turn blue when active, pale blue when active in the background and red when using blind mode. But would it be useful to be able to change the default state colour independently? kind of like the new coloured actor titles, you could create groups of scenes just by changing the button colour. I guess the palette might need to be restricted so it doesn't interfere with the functional colour changes, but a right click - simple palette selector (a bit like the slots in Ableton) might be useful. Even a choice of 4 different greys would be nice. What do you think? 

 I'll add this to the existing feature request.