Jumpy playback?

[Thomas Gabrielsen]

Hello everybody, and thank you all for your answers!

I read all the answers here, done a lot of searching, phoned some colleagues, you name it but I still havent been able to find a clear answer to this problem. It seems to me that it is a combination of several reasons why this happens, and therefore my solution also was a combination of the advises you and other people have given me.

This is my conclusion:
– When a static object is moved over the screen with the same and particular speed the eye can easily see that the animated object jumps from one frame to the other. I think this effect can be stronger if the speed of the animation and/or the frame rate in some way interfere with the refresh rate of the display. Since I not always know the refresh rate of the display I think I just have to live with this. (Thomas Leong talked about this)

– sam.mltn talked about high bandwidth, dropped frames, and low fps. This was not a problem on my computer, but it came clear to my that it was a problem om other systems, including my clients system. The resolution had to be 1366×768 because it should be runned on a 65 inch plasma screen. Therefore I used a higher compression to lower the bandwith and that helped a little bit.

– Thomas Leong mentioned keyframes every 5th frame and that put me on the idea to use keyframe on every frame so that the frame should be as equal as possible. That helped a little bit too.

– Someone (might be my own brain) also menitioned that I could slow down the animation, and so I did and it helped a little bit too.

– Finaly someone suggested that I could ad a horisontal gaussian blur, so I did, and that also helped a little bit.

All this solutions helped so much that the client was satisfied. 🙂

Thanks,
Thomas