Here's a quick update. We are currently looking into the possibility of having short 2-3 second videos display on screen during challenge mode, whenever a user gets the guess correct. This videos will most likely consist of cartoon animations related to instruments (it has not yet been determined whether we should come up with a one size fits all animation, or have individual videos for each instrument).
When it comes to methods, it is still not determined what to use, Ryan has done 99.99999% of the research for this tool, so he is the guy with most of the data, however I just came across the openGL method,which looks good, relies on buffers (which means a heavier initial loading time, but smooth running of the program), and the ability of having the video run within the program window (as oppose to having a quicktime window open and close when prompted)
More details on openGL (along with problems which other coders have encountered) may be found here: http://processing.org/discourse/yabb2/YaBB.pl?board=OpenGL
Feel free to let us know what you think, or if you know of any other reliable video methods which will work for us, keeping in mind that initial loading time is a major issue at the moment, and we are doing whatever we can to reduce this problem.
Thanks =)
Hey Kev... Managed to play the video successfully, using the GSVideo API instead of Processing's video library. Thus, managed to remove the stuttering effect it was previously creating.
ReplyDeleteI will now work on implementing the video idea we came up earlier, into the current program. Currently having some issues getting the actual videos playing after guessing the right instrument.. Hopefully will manage to find a solution without any major overhaul to the code :)