[GEM-dev] videoKINECT plugin for pix_video

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Mar 25, 2011, at 5:18 PM, IOhannes zmölnig wrote:

> On 03/25/2011 04:30 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>> I have no idea what needs to be changed.  It looks like you're the  
>> best
>> candidate for this one, but perhaps you could enlighten us?
>
> well, currently, configure will force the use of pix_filmDarwin (when
> compiling for OSX), which is something we don't want.
> i think it should be enough, if it wouldn't define the
> "GEM_VIDEOBACKEND" in Base/config.h at all, which would make Gem
> automatically fall back to the generic plugin framework.
>
> however, my point was more, that i would like to kindly ask you to not
> run around and tell people that things are not working which in fact  
> are
> working, for the same reason i do not tell people to not use Pd- 
> extended
> because it fails to compile on w32 (which is something i figure when
> looking at the build logs i get each day, not by looking at a  
> download page)


I'll be more specific: On Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6, pix_film, pix_movie,  
and pix_video are not working for the Pd-extended 0.43 nightly builds  
and I have no idea how to make them work.

.hc


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