running about 2-3 fps on macosx... new/better qtjava methods exist but are
reported to sometimes cause flicker.

http://processing.org/discourse/yabb_beta/YaBB.cgi?board=VideoCamera;action=display;num=1115909991;start=1

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Example for using Sequence Grabbers DataProc to display video in java

possible performance improvement from a posting on the qtjava mailing list, is
a bit smarter about how sequence grabbing is handled:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/QuickTime-java/2005/Nov/msg00036.html

Hello i'm newbie in processing,

I'd like to go deeper inside your nice project but i have a big performance problem :

I downloaded a particle source code from 101bit : http://www.bit-101.com/p5/
which is particularly fast.

But when i compiled it through processing 109 or 110 (with or without java version),
the compiled program is very slow in processing, and even in navigators..

Is there any option i forgot ?

thanks for replying

hi, that's not relevant to this bug, please post the question on the discourse board.

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on my mac this goes a LOT faster and smoother and has sound synced

a movie class that directly renders into a PApplet assumed to have the right
size, can easily be changed to render into an image instead (just copy into
image.pixels instead of apple.pixels)

thanks for posting, will keep this in mind.

closing this bug, because we'll be replacing the current video library with
another sometime later this summer. as such, i won't be doing any more bug
fixes on the current video library. in the meantime, we recommend using
gsvideo, opencv, or one of the other video libraries that are available.