[PD] PDP, webcams, and title bars.
John Harrison
john.harrison at wichita.edu
Thu Feb 16 05:52:42 CET 2006
First, I have been running PDP on both ubuntu Breezy and Dapper and
found the Logitech Pro 4000 USB2 webcam having strange video display
hickups in the stream with both systems. The webcam worked great in
other apps (vlc, mplayer, etc.) I fixed it in PDP by commenting out code
in PDP as described in this link:
http://lists.saillard.org/pipermail/pwc/2005-July/000487.html
It seems to me that some aspect of this change should be incorporated in
the CVS.
Second, I am wondering how to get rid of the title bar for windows
created in pdp. I managed to nuke it in Linux by using a window manager,
specifically Devil's Pie:
http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie
How might I get rid of the of the title bar when using OS X? IMHO, I
think eliminating window title bars should be a built-in feature for PDP
and I am curious why this hasn't been done yet. Is PDP still in active
development? The code looks mostly from 2003...
Third, on ubuntu Dapper for some reason multiple webcams being displayed
in multiple windows using PDP is breaking. When I create the first
window displaying the webcam video, all is OK. When I attempt to open
the second, unstead of a new window appearing, the first window stops
updating. I then have to restart Pd to get any reasonable results. This
is the case using either the pdp_xv or the pdp_glx objects. Multiple
webcams in multiple instances of VLC is no problem.
-John
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