[solved] video preloading

Baldrick

I was wondering whether preloading takes place when using the vlc or media player plugins?
I would guess yes, but just to be sure. (if not, then I guess open cv is the best solution, right?)
thanks

sebastiaan

Hi,

These plug-ins will set up everything internally for video playback during the prepare phase (i.e. during preloading), but they will not pre-load the actual frames. Doing so would take too much memory, even for relatively short clips, and it's also not really necessary performance wise. But if you do want to pre-load video frames for some reason, you could indeed consider writing a custom script using opencv.

• http://osdoc.cogsci.nl/usage/video/#opencv

Good luck!

Sebastiaan

Baldrick

Hi

Performance was what I had in mind. Since everything is set-up in the prepare/preload phase and preloading video frames makes no actual impovement, I'll stick to the plugins.

Thanks for the quick response!