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- From: JERRY_JAHNKE@tikal.biosci.ARizona.EDU
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- Subject: Need for Speed
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- Date: 4 Jan 93 11:18:00 GMT
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- From: Jerry_Jahnke@tikal.biosci.arizona.edu (Jerry Jahnke)
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- Subject: Time:10:59 AM
- OFFICE MEMO Need for Speed Date:1/4/93
- Hello,
-
- Over the Christmas break I decided to develop an application that does
- QuickTime movies (much like Simple Player). Anyway I got it all up and
- running and it works fine with one noteable exception. It plays them a bit
- on the slow side.
-
- The DoIdle method of my MovieView is set to an idle frequency of 0 and it
- calls MCIdle each pass. I also overrode MainEventLoop in my decendant of
- TApplication. And call MoviesTask before polling for events. It is still a
- bit on the slow side (the movies are kinda jerky when they play on my app
- but smooth in Simple Player.)
-
- So my question is this. Should I just lump it? The jerkiness is noticable,
- but only if you are looking for it (i.e. my wife could not see it until I
- showed it to her). Or are there a few other places I could sprinkle
- MoviesTask to eek the last little bit of performance out of this app?
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