I have had a similar problem with OpenGL and MovieMaker. I tried all sorts of stuff. In the past, 0138 and before, I was able to remedy the situation by creating the MovieMaker object before calling size and giving it explicit width and height values, like this:

Code:

void setup() {
  mm = new MovieMaker(this, 720, 480, "drawing.mov", 
                      30, MovieMaker.JPEG, MovieMaker.HIGH);
  size(720, 480, OPENGL);
}
 

I don't know why this worked but it did and I just used it that way. I never got around to seeing why. This doesn't work anymore. Here is a short sketch I wrote to test it:

Code:

import processing.video.*;
import processing.opengl.*;

MovieMaker mm;

void setup() {
 println("About to call size()");
 //size(720, 480);
 size(720, 480, OPENGL);
 println("About to create mm");
 mm = new MovieMaker(this, 720, 480, "drawing.mov", 30, MovieMaker.JPEG, MovieMaker.HIGH);
 colorMode(HSB, 100); 
 background(0, 0, 0); 
}

void draw() {
  background(100-(frameCount%100), frameCount%100, 100);  
  if (frameCount > 100) {
    mm.finish();
    noLoop();
  } else {
    mm.addFrame();
  }
}
 

When I run this I get some disturbing output:

Code:

About to call size()
About to call size()
About to create mm
 

Also, it freezes while creating mm. And why does it print out "About to call size()" twice!!! Now, when I change setup() to look like this:

Code:

void setup() {
 println("About to create mm");
 mm = new MovieMaker(this, 720, 480, "drawing.mov", 30, MovieMaker.JPEG, MovieMaker.HIGH);
 println("About to call size()");
 //size(720, 480);
 size(720, 480, OPENGL);
 colorMode(HSB, 100); 
 background(0, 0, 0); 
}
 

It actually runs but gives me this output:

Code:

About to create mm
About to call size()
About to create mm

The movie file already exists.  Please delete it first.

About to call size()
 

Also, the movie file it creates is broken. This is after I have deleted any previous version of drawing.mov from the sketch folder and even emptied it from the Trash. It is starting to seem like it is calling setup() twice?

As for it not working with P3D, I haven't had that problem. I get this output when using P3D in a regular manner:

Code:

About to call size()
About to call size()
About to create mm
 

but it works correctly. Until this issue is resolved, I would use P3D and try at a bunch of the encoding and quality options:

http://processing.org/reference/libraries/video/MovieMaker.html

It may be an encoding issue.

I am going to further investigate and test this problem. My guess is that it is a problem within MovieMaker and not OpenGL or Processing. I will keep you posted.

Hey namke, I found a quick fix for this on OS X:

I replaced video.jar in 1.0.1 with the video.jar from 0135. You can do this by right-clicking on Processing.app --> Show package content --> navigate to the Resources/Java/libraries/video folder. And replace it.

One other thing, try running the applet in "present" mode Sketch --> Present . That seemed to be the only way to work this for me.

you can get 0135 on the download page:
http://processing.org/download/index.html

I can confirm that disabling 2X OpenGL smoothing using hint() solves the issue on OS X 10.5.6 with Processing 1.0.1.

Thanks, Dimitre!

Anyone know how we can get MovieMaker to work without disabling the 2X smoothing?   It kind of makes it pointless to render to HD, with jaggies.

Thanks for all of the responses/fixes to this - I have now filed a bug (since it does indeed look like a bug to me) - "Bug 1181"

Hopefully this'll be a simple fix to the MM library (although the workarounds listed here will do the job, it should be possible to use the MM library without them!)

john..