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Choppy Theora Playback

by Buzztime Entertainment Inc. · in Torque Game Engine · 02/22/2007 (12:38 am) · 1 replies

I just tried out the Theora video playback in TGB. The video plays, but it's really choppy, not smooth at all. It's on a reasonably decent machine, with a reasonably decent video card.

I'm wondering if anyone else has seen these types of issues? Is there any baseline for how big the Theora videos can be before the bitrate becomes too much for the engine to handle?

I'm trying to put a full-screen ambient video behind a GUI, and I just assumed (being as TGB is so fast) that the video playback wouldn't be an issue.

Am I missing something?
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Torque Owner Tim Heldna
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02/22/2007 (12:51 am)
I don't use the Theora implementaion in Torque. I've found it to be quite problematic. All I can recommend is make sure you're using the latest version of the Theora encoder, keep your videos small in file size and at a low resolution. Either that or roll in your own video player.