[PD-dev] PDP 0.12.2 linux -- broken objects

[lee at fallingforward.net]

After spending a day with the PD/PDP/GEM source code and Gentoo Linux on
both an AMD Athlon and a G3 Powerbook, here's my results:

Gentoo's 0.37 does not compile if jack is installed.
MSP's 0.37-test1 compiles and runs very good. Haven't tried running with
jack yet but alsa drivers give a test tone.

PiDiP won't even unzip and unarchive. The downloaded file from:
http://ydegoyon.free.fr/pidip-0.12.11.tar.gz
is about 8K

PDP 0.12.2 from http://zwizwa.fartit.com/pd/pdp/ compiles fine

but...

Most objects in the example patches break their connections and do not
function. Here's the list I made:

pdp_motion_phase
pdp_gradient
pdp_conv_sobel_edge
pdp_blur
pdp_cheby3o
pdp_save_png_sequence
pdp_diff
pdp_agc
pdp_contrast
pdp_saturation
pdp_motion_fade
pdp_pps

creating error messages similar to this:

 pdp_motion_fade 1
... couldn't create
 pdp_contrast 0.16
... couldn't create
example15.pd 3 0 6 0 (pdp_v4l->text) connection failed
example15.pd 6 0 7 0 (text->text) connection failed
example15.pd 7 0 8 1 (text->pdp_mul) connection failed
example15.pd 7 0 8 0 (text->pdp_mul) connection failed

On the Powerbook, PD 0.37 without jack compiles fine from Gentoo's
package. The only GEM source that would compile is from CVS but it did and
it runs great. Well, great for an old ATI rage 128 card with 8MB on it :)

And after all that. I'd like to introduce myself. I've been a Max/MSP user
for about three years and developed patches with SoftVNS for video
installations. When my Apple hardware started getting old even before the
loan was paid off, I decided to try and move to Linux for multimedia. It's
coming along slowly but surely. It's great to have these PD packages
compile and run with only a day's work. I look forward to being a part of
this great community.

-lee