[PD] PDP updates

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Glad to see you are working on PDP again, many people will be quite  
happy about it.

I have a request from the documentation point of view.  It would be  
very handy if the docs and the example patches used a cross-platform  
method for getting video in.  Also, rather than using live video in the  
docs and examples, it would be easier for most people if you could use  
a video file.  Then people without a video camera could play with the  
docs and help files.

And lastly, a cross-platform method of outputting.  [pdp_xv] is used in  
the docs and examples.  It compiles and loads on Mac OS X, but no one  
AFAIK has gotten it working yet.

.hc

On Jan 13, 2006, at 8:05 AM, doelie at zzz.kotnet.org wrote:

>
> hi all,
>
> i'm working on a bug fix release for PDP. currently there's only a  
> darcs archive.
> there will probably be a release around mid februari, for the first  
> Huddersfield
> workshop.
>
> this means that PDP and Packet Forth are officially forked, alas.. no  
> more denial :)
>
> if there's some small annoyance or bug you'd like to see fixed, send  
> an email to
> pdp at zzz.kotnet.org
>
> for more info, see:
> http://zwizwa.goto10.org/zwikizwaki.php?page=PureDataPacket
>
> most important changes since 0.12.4 are pdp_del, pdp_rawin/out and  
> i420 bitmaps.
> there's also the doc/misc/rawout.txt file explaining how to use rawout  
> and
> pdp_metro to dump raw audio/video to the harddisk and convert it  
> offline
> using mencoder/ffmpeg. this seems to be the simplest way to save CPU  
> power
> when doing live video recording.
>
> one thing several people seem to miss in PDP is more input video  
> codecs.
> i'm not going to add support for it, but it is possible to use  
> pdp_rawin
> in combination with my pf-rawvideo.* scripts. these are little wrappers
> around ffmpeg and mencoder to produce i420 streams on stdout. they can
> be found here:
>
> http://zwizwa.goto10.org/darcs/libpf/bin/
>
> tom
>
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