HCMarkus wrote:Thanks Steve. The 280 is amuck stronger card than the 5770, but it sounds like it doesn't make much of a difference for you in DP. PoliticalBonobo has reported a GTX960 didn't help him. Looks like hosting video on another computer may be a better improvement.
http://www.motunation.com/forum/posting ... 1&p=516867
Or run VIs from VE Pro. Probably where I will ultimately go.
What issues are you having? I'm sure you're getting it under control. But here are a few suggestions anyway.
How much memory does your scoring template take up when it starts to act up? I haven't tried this on my current MacPro, but on my 2008 MacPro when I was running DP8, when I got to about 15GBs of memory DP started getting unresponsive and sluggish. But when I got VEP, it could load samples until I maxed out my total memory (32GBs) without a problem. So, VEP would certainly help you regardless and I think it would be better than hosting video on another computer. If you have an 32-bit VIs leftover VEP can host those in it's 32-but server. I still host VIs in DP in my non-orchestral templates. So having both apps is a good thing.
As far as I know, when you open a movie in DP, OS X just opens a QuickTime X service based on whatever codec the video is. It could be the 64-bit VTDecoderXPCService and/or the 32-bit QTKitServer used by Quicktime Pro 7. If you can open and play movies in Quicktime without problem, then I doubt it's a problem within DP, your CPU(s) or your graphics card. Dp doesn't put any more strain on your graphics card that QuickTime would. DP is basically all CPU.
I'm not sure if DP gets to access this through OS X, but some recent Intel CPUs have an integrated video transcoder called Quick sync that QuickTime X can use. Xeons are not among the CPUs that have it. I'm not sure if DP can take advantage of it or not. Just a thought.
If you have Quicktime Pro, Compressor or FCP, use it to transcode any videos you get to a good size and codec for DP and your sessions. I use Compressor. I've made a custom setting and created a droplet for it so when I get videos I just drop the video on the the droplet and let Compressor automate the process and write the video file to a directory I have on my video HDD. Easy.
Seem people recommend putting video on a separate drive. That only helps with throughout and probably wouldn't be a big deal unless maybe if it's on your sample drive and your streaming a lot of samples.
If you want to check out how your GPU is doing use iStats to watch your GPU usage and the FPS it's generating.
I don't know what your set up is like, but again, I would definitely consider VEP. Now that VEP has a MAS version it's the perfect companion to DP. DP/VEP al,pst seem like one app to me now. It's also totally stable.
Btw, here's a good test video.
http://images.apple.com/movies/us/hd_ga ... m1072p.mov
You probably know all of that already but I just thought I'd tell you what I do.