[Frameworks] The Digital Video Exhibition Problem: And An Offer To Address It

[Brook Hinton]

Sent from a phone pardon the tiepoes. 

On Dec 5, 2010, at 3:09 PM, "Aaron F. Ross" <aaron at digitalartsguild.com> wrote:

> 
> I'm just really down on the whole "dump the files in a playlist and 
> let it roll" method of exhibition. My main objection is that, even 
> today, computers don't have much elegance in the way they handle a 
> discrepancy between source frame rate and display scan rate. In other 
> words, if the media is encoded at 23.976 fps, and the desktop is 
> displaying frames at 60 Hz, you're likely to see horrible horizontal 
> tearing in the middle of the frame, or blurry frame blending. Pick 
> your poison. With dedicated hardware such as a Blu-ray player, this 
> is not an issue.
> 
> Aaron
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> 
> Aaron F. Ross
> Digital Arts Guild
> 
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