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Re: GDI Objects

On Wednesday, December 12, 2001, at 02:35 AM, STEVEN JOHNSTON wrote:

It managed 991 movies.

so 1042 sounds like one per instance plus a few for something else.

I've since found a 'Safe Mode (GDI Only)' in the
Quicktime Preferences under Video Settings, which
seems to eliminate the constant increase of GDI
Objects. The downside is that the quality of playback
is greatly diminished. Although I'm going to try a
better video card in my PC to try and counter this.

I think don't bother - om "safe mode" you're asking QT to not use any extra available assistance other than plain vanilla rgb pixels on the screen, in whatever form the rest of your window's and things are drawn into (ie: 16 bpp, 24 bpp etc)... a better card will just buy you a more expensive rgb frame buffer in "safe mode" - maybe better/newer drivers for your current card would help some...

in this case you could try this: make a 1 second movie that uses RGB data - like a picture of your dog as graphics compressor or animation compressor image... play that n times, see what happens... switch to a 1 second movie made using (hmmm.. DV, Sorenson, something that would prefer hw drawing assistance)... repeat. I would guess no difference in allocation in "safe" mode, and about n difference with everything enabled.... you might want to try this on a couple of machines with different video drivers to tie it down to your code, the video driver or QT/J

cheers,

dean

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