cheers,

bozzy

Bozzy and I have been collaborating on solving this problem, and it is solved -- the new version that solves the problem will be up by May 10, 2013 at the latest.

Thank you Bozzy for all your help!

cheers,

b.

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Should I see flickering? or?

Best,

M

P.S. Thanks a lot for sending me the bug example -- it drives me crazy when I can't replicate a bug!

I created a single stage patch with the same bug. It is attached... 

By the way I cleaned all my patches from bugs for the show. So, I am not in a rush with this anymore but curious why I am the only one that can see this thing. :)

Thanks again for all your help.

cheers,

bozzy

what do you mean by "all distorted" ? I've just gone in to DistractedProjector.izz / Scene 2 again, and tried to make something not work -- but it all works as expected. (I even put Scaler actors after every picture player to change with width / height to crazy values... regardless, it always works as expected.)

I've really tried hard to recreate this bug, but I simply cannot do it. Since it doesn't seem like your media files are too big, it would be great if you could WeTransfer me all the media so I can try to sort this out.

b.

The scenes I was referring to were: DistractedTV's Scene2, Scene 2.1 and Scene 5.1...

Actually to move back to 0f25 might not be a bad idea if it will give the video mixers back to me but I am being extremely nervous since I am going to tech on Saturday.

Thanks for all your help Mark!

b.

That being said, I brought some pictures into your patches.

Scene 1.1 in DistractedProjector.izz works as expected -- no flickering of any kind.

Scene 4 of DistractedTVs.izz also seems fine. The Crop works as expected.

I was also running both patches at the same time (as seems to be the case in your original post) and this showed no negative effects.

However, there was a bug at one point where a movie playing at slower than normal speed would flicker when played above another image that was changing less frequently. This might explain the problem with DistractedTVs.izz, as it most definitely creates this very situation. However, I tested in 1.3.0f26 and saw no problems.

I would suggest at this point that you move to the latest pre-release (1.3.0f32 at the time of this writing) -- bugs in the 1.3.0f26 pre-release have for sure been fixed. See http://troikatronix.com/download/isadora-pre-releases/

Unfortunately the resolutions I use are all over the place. Only my default resolution is 854 x 480 and I am on "scale to smallest image" mode.

cheers,

bozzy

Regarding YUV: YUV has no transparency information. If you turn on YUV mode, any alpha channel information with the picture will be lost. If you want to keep your transparency, then don't use YUV.

Also, I would try a TIFF instead of a PNG to see if that makes any difference.

Finally, is the resolution of every picture and every video 854 x 480? If you will send me your patch at mark [atta] troikatronix [dotta] com I will investigate.

On the other hand I don't think upgrading solved the problem of the crop actor... You will see the screenshots attached, they are both from the same scene. If the second stream of the crop actor is running underneath it still jumps in and out in weird triangular shapes. I will try to "keep aspect" in the projector meanwhile maybe it will help. 

First of all I will test the MIDI slider tonight and let you know if upgrading helped or not.

Other stuff: 

Screenshot 1: When I trigger 'a' the picture player should send a png file on top of the jpg but it doesn't come up transparent or it doesn't come at all.

Screenshot 2: There is a png and a video running behind giving that cheesy window effect. If I enable YUV png is not being transparent anymore and scrambles the video behind

And in general when I do not enable YUV two simple picture players connected to a video mixer and then to a projector do not stream the output without distorting the image.

My resolution for now is 854 X 480...

Thanks for all your help and time!

cheers,

bozzy

cheers,

bozzy

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