unlike LSP's ability to play video on a TV monitor, I'd like to use nutcracker to play video segments on a raster (matix) display of RGB pixels.
Unless the feature already exists natively, here is what I attempted...
1. Found a video (cartoon, animation, or high-contrast video)
2. used a conversion tool to create an animated gif.
3. loaded the animated gif into the "Pictures" effect within nutcracker
What I am seeing is a slow display that is too large for my raster display.
I think if the following was done, it might complete the desired effect:
1. resize the incoming gif size to the dimensions of the target raster ( i think 3 options would be useful... A) resize so that the all pixels are shown -- largest source is applied to smallest target) or B) resize on the horizontal dimension, or C) resize on the vertical dimension [i'm suggesting that the image can be clipped to trim excess horizontal or vertical areas...]
2. center the image to the target display
thoughts?
my objective is to find a simple way to create monster (or santa) face animations on a raster display. if the source is already synced to music, it avoids the need for Papagayo, etc.