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Thread: Movie of BufferedImages

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    Default Movie of BufferedImages

    Hi guys, I've made a little movie out of BufferedImages and it runs beautifully, however, the problem I'm faced with is loading time.
    By loading time, I mean the time it takes to craft this array list of BufferedImages.

    By the way, the movie is just an image that fades in and out.

    I have pinpointed the problem to be that whenever I create a new BufferedImage, it just takes way too much time for java to allocate that memory.

    Here is a code snipit:

    private BufferedImage setAlpha(byte alpha) {
        	BufferedImage temp = null;
            alpha %= 0xff; 
     
            try {
    	     temp = ImageIO.read(new File("images\\intro.png"));
    	} catch (IOException e) {}
     
            for (int cx=112;cx<675;cx++) {          
                for (int cy=8;cy<567;cy++) {
     
                	if(temp != null){
    	                int color = temp.getRGB(cx, cy);
    	                int mc = (alpha << 24) | 0x00ffffff;
    	                int newcolor = color & mc;
    	                temp.setRGB(cx, cy, newcolor);  
                	}
     
                }
            }        
            return temp;
        }

    temp = ImageIO.read(new File("images\\intro.png")); is the line that takes forever, does anyone have any suggestions?

    Thank you,

    Ludicrous


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    Default Re: Movie of BufferedImages

    Some thoughts:
    How large are the image files?
    How long does it take to read the bytes of a file?

    Can the files be read before they are shown? Can the image files be read on another thread while other images are being shown?
    If you don't understand my answer, don't ignore it, ask a question.

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    Default Re: Movie of BufferedImages

    Hey, thanks for the reply.

    After doing research, it turns out ImageIO.read() is just dirt slow, and I might need to find some other way to doing my movie.

    Can the image files be read on another thread while other images are being shown?
    This is very true, thank you.

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