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@pupdogg:
I'm sorry, but I'm shure that this kind of jittering has nothing to do with this kind of anti-smoothness talken in this topic.

In your video it looks like that you slowed the clip down or you've made a BMP configuration for that clip...playbacked it so slow that all smoothness of the original clip was gone. ....or.... you've made a BMP configuration for it... and choosed the wrong audiobuffer for your system. possibilitys....possibilitys ....possibilitys


Greetz
cosmowe

Hello everyone....again,
here are some screencaptures I've made so anybody in this topic sees what we are talking
about.

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IMPORTANT
To see the "real" stutters in the screencaptures you have to set your display
refresh rate to 60Hz for the 60&30fps clips and to 50Hz for the 50&25fps clips
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Download the clips and rename them right...for example "60fps_cap.mov". I'm sorry for that
but vimeo does not allow me to pre-name the downloads. Yes, it is possible to watch the clips
on vimeo directly but vimeo convert the videos from 60fps to 30fps..and the 50fps to 25...
so the visible result will be not exactly right. Who really knows how they convert stuff...

Please look the whole clip from beginning to the end. Otherwise you'll miss how the clip
playback jumps between phases of 100% smoothness and stuttering.



You can download the files via the Vimeo download button.

DOWNLOAD - 60fps

DOWNLOAD - 30fps


DOWNLOAD - 50fps

DOWNLOAD - 25fps



I filmed the 60&30fps clips with 1280x720 @ 60fps on a display which was set to 60Hz and
the 50&25fps clips with 1280x720 @ 50fps on a display which was set to 50Hz.

Please check if your display is fully compatible to 50Hz. For example the
Samsung Syncmaster series are supporting 50 Hz input...but internally convert it back
to 60 Hz to be able to show you something Just for your information.

Greetz
cosmowe

I just realized I encoded a bunch of clips in 29.97 FPS, i'm outputting at 60hz into a projector running at 60hz. Is there going to be a big difference if re-encoded them to 30 FPS?

@pupdogg: Maybe you should just make generative visuals in Resolume and get a capture card to run a camera into it, (Use a Blackmagic Intensity Pro, Matrox MX02 has too much latency in my experience) that would be a lot more unique and interesting than just playing video-clips. What's the point of dropping so much money on a computer just to use Resolume to play pre-rendered video clips when it's capable of so much more than that?

Any updates / news regarding smooth playback? Tried PlaybackPro and Qlab both playing smooth, same video in resolume stuttering, even in DXV.

Any statement from the resolume team would be nice.

Our statement remains the same as before:

We're aware of issues with perceptively smooth playback, particularly visible on slow moving, high contrast video. As explained at length before (and clearly visible in the examples from Cosmowe above), this is caused by discrepancies in Resolume's playback of the video frames and the output's refresh rate.

We are very aware of the demand for smoother playback, especially on theater or corporate productions. We have a few ideas on how to improve this, but on the short term we cannot commit to any improvements in this area.

Just some notes.. I have found these pointers to be true for the most part.
1- Have your clips the same resolution as your session. And have all of the clips the same codec and resolution.
2- If you are running at 60hz, 60 fps can help or 30fps, 29.97 seems to not be as smooth.
3- Of course make sure everything is up to date.

Just throwing that out there. I do wish there was some sort of guide or fix to maintain smooth playback..

It is not Resolume fault. I have absolutely same problem with same videofiles in mediaplayers with enabled dxva. Somehow it is how current GPUs are working. To fight this i found only one weapon - performance: i try to get stable 55-60fps.

Hi there,
I've bought Resolume one year ago and right now I have never been able to use it once successfully for a performance for this issue. I've sent you some recording and someone at resolume confirmed me it was the
well known issue. The same person proposed me a refund and I refused it because I would really like to see this great application working because I find it extremely simple to use it. Please can you tell me if there is any news on this side? I've seen there is the version 4.1.6 available to download it.
Is there any improvement of this issue with that version?
Please let me know and keep us updated from time to time. For me, but I guess for all of us is very important to know any news about it.

Best,

Davide

noticing the same issues

it looks like every 3rd or 4th frame is dropping and occasionally appears to repeat frames

media is playing from fusion io iofx cards that is capable of keeping up with multiple 8k layers at 60 fps

other media software is giving ultra smooth playback

I am seeing glitchy playback even on standard hd files

doesnt matter if its 1080p or massive resolution ...just not as smooth as it should be

all content is rendered with dxv codec encapsulated into .mov files and the platform is windows

2 machines experiencing similiar issues one is win 8 64bit pro 32gig ram and win 7 64 bit pro 16 gig ram

this is almost to the point that we are going to abandon the resolume platform all together

Please can anybody @ Resolume answer to my questions?
I need Resolume to works perfectly by the end of november for 2 shows in Russia
do you think is something that can happen?
Last year in this period I asked the same for january 2013 and the answer was that it wouldn't have happened.
Well now it's one year later so the time to work on that and fix it was enough.
So please stop adding new feature and fixing other bugs which are important as well but this one is a deal breaker!!!

Please let me know.

Best,

Davide

davide93 wrote:Hi there,
I've bought Resolume one year ago and right now I have never been able to use it once successfully for a performance for this issue. I've sent you some recording and someone at resolume confirmed me it was the
well known issue. The same person proposed me a refund and I refused it because I would really like to see this great application working because I find it extremely simple to use it. Please can you tell me if there is any news on this side? I've seen there is the version 4.1.6 available to download it.
Is there any improvement of this issue with that version?
Please let me know and keep us updated from time to time. For me, but I guess for all of us is very important to know any news about it.

Best,

Davide