[PD] IntelMacs & PD/GEM

[Thomas Kronlachner]

HI

I personally would love to keep on working mainly with Gem and controling 
video/pictures and stuff like that by audio signals.The main issue why I was 
asking is because I didn't find too much info about Gem in particular in 
combination with MacOSX on the internet. I had no clue about the performance 
on this OS in general. Thanks a lot for giving me so many interesting 
information.

Thomas
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>From: Max Neupert <abonnements at revolwear.com>
>To: "B. Bogart" <ben at ekran.org>
>CC: Thomas Kronlachner <heartofoak456 at hotmail.com>, pd-list at iem.at
>Subject: Re: [PD] IntelMacs & PD/GEM
>Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:34:44 +0100
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>Am 17.01.2006 um 17:36 schrieb B. Bogart:
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>>hi Thomas,
>>
>>I run PD/Gem on both linux and MAC machines. (no mactel)
>>
>>Gem seems a lot more efficient for video on OSX, this is probably  due to
>>the very nice (proprietary) video decoders and quicktime making it all
>>integrated. (and the developers being very adept at optimizing for the
>>MAC platform).
>
>maybe the text on the gem website should be altered then:
>Quote:
>
>GEM was originally written by Mark Danks to do realtime openGL-based  
>graphics on SGI and Win32 platforms.
>
>Günter Geiger made a port to LINUX.
>
>GEM is now maintained at the IEM by IOhannes m zmölnig. Future  
>developments will be aimed at Linux and Win32 platforms.
>
>GEM is open source software, it is free for any use and can be  downloaded 
>from the internet. GEM runs on Win32, IRIX and LINUX  platforms. There is 
>also an experimental port to MAC-OSX.
>
>„THERE IS ALSO AN EXPERIMENTAL PORT TO MAC-OSX“
>
>does not quite sound like what you described. actually it scared me  from 
>using Gem quite a bit, until franz of the sat told me that it's  not true.
>
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>max
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>>Still without making lots of efforts audio in PD (with a crappy  internal
>>card) seems terrible, the GUI causing dropouts and all kinds of heck,
>>this does not seem to happen under linux. (with a crappy sounds card).
>>
>>So I guess it depends on what you want to do with it, video or more 3D
>>graphics, still images or video processing...
>>
>>Personally I do performances on the g4 laptop, which has treated me
>>well, and installations on linux. One day I'll have to give back  this g4
>>and then I guess I'll be doing everything on linux...
>>
>>Now if someone made linux video decoders perform as well as the OSX
>>ones, and GEM was full of as much SIMD (or SSE, or whatever its  called)
>>on linux as the OSX version is I think they would be pretty equal.
>>
>>.b.
>>
>>Thomas Kronlachner wrote:
>>>Hi All,
>>>
>>>This is my first post here on this list. So I've been working with
>>>pd/gem for half a year now. I am very focused on gem in  combination with
>>>video/audio. I always had the restriction of my hardware, my computer
>>>was not powerful enough. so I tend to get a new one. My intention  is to
>>>by one new IntelMacs. since I really want to get hold of an computer
>>>that can handle this I intened to go for this plattform.  So I do  have a
>>>couple of questions:
>>>
>>>1. do you think that there is a future for pd/gem on this plattform?
>>>
>>>2. How was the overall performance of PD/GEM on a mac in general.
>>>
>>>3. What are your expectations or estimations on this issue?
>>>
>>>Since this is really something that is decission making for me, I  would
>>>be happy for any replies.
>>>
>>>Thomas
>>>
>>>Leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.  (Banksy)
>>>
>>>
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