[Scummvm-tracker] [ScummVM] #10033: SCI: PHANT2: Reduce latency of starting movie clips and phone button sounds

[Colin Snover]

#10033: SCI: PHANT2: Reduce latency of starting movie clips and phone button sounds
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  Reporter:  dafioram          |      Owner:  (none)
      Type:  enhancement       |     Status:  new
  Priority:  low               |  Component:  Engine: SCI
Resolution:                    |   Keywords:  sci32
      Game:  Phantasmagoria 2  |
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Comment (by csnover):

 Are there specific video clips where you notice latency? The game waits
 while fading out the music before certain clips, but ones like navigation
 in Curtis’s apartment should be fairly quick. I see about 50ms (3 frames)
 of latency here between click and the first frame of video.

 The phone is… dumb. It doesn’t play the sound effect until you release the
 mouse button, there are only 7 DTMF samples which it chooses randomly, and
 the samples aren’t loopable (the samples contain more than just a pure
 tone). So outside of maybe changing the trigger to be mouse-down instead
 of mouse-up, I don’t think there is anything that can be done with the
 resources that come with the game to meaningfully improve the phone
 behaviour.

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