[PD] pdp on mac OSX 4.6

[bigswift at cox.net]

i just wanted to mention that some files MADE with pdp opened fine on os X 10.4.6 until the quicktime 7.1 update . Apple did something and now certain files with jpeg codec will not open at all.


---- derek holzer <derek at x-i.net> wrote: 
> Hi xname,
> 
> xname at scii.nl wrote:
> 
>  >  i am asking the list if is there anyone who installed pdp on macosx 4,
>  >  and who has it working, which means not only that the library is
>  >  loaded, but also that you can actually play videos so the xserver
>  >  works.
> 
> I got PDP to run with HC's 0.38.4-extended-RC8 installer. Sara Kolster 
> and I used the following instructions for several workshops:
> 
> mv pdp_pidip_osx.tar.gz /
> cd /
> sudo tar xvfz pdp_pidip_osx.tar.gz
> cd /usr/local/lib/pd/pdp_pidip_osx
> cp pdp.pd_darwin 
> /Applications/Pd-0.38.4-extended-RC8.app/Contents/Resources/extra/
> sudo cp /usr/local/lib/pd/pdp_pidip_osx/fonts/* /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
> 
> The source of this pdp_pidip_osx.tar.gz was:
> 
> http://tdegoyon.free.fr/pdp_pidip_osx.tar.gz
> 
> I don't know if Yves has updated it since we downloaded it and kept an 
> archival copy. We also used the X11 installer from Apple.
> 
> PDP runs and we can do all the direct video synthesis stuff with it. 
> However, I do have problems with Quicktime playback using this, as did 
> quite a few workshop participants. Our "reference" clips, encoded with 
> the PhotoJPEG codec, won't play for me. My guess is that the Apple's 
> Quicktime is to blame, but I haven't spent much time looking into it 
> since we dropped PDP from our workshops simply because it was so much 
> more complicated to get running than GEM, not to mention the 
> cross-platform issues.
> 
> If video playback is what you are looking for, I can highly recommend 
> using GEM. Both [pix_film] and [pix_video] are much more reliable and 
> work with much less overhead than PDP does in general on OSX . I'm 
> afraid PDP is another one of those things in the PD world that is much 
> more highly developed for Linux, and also Tom has included a lot of 
> optimizations for Intel architecture in PDP that make me think that 
> running it on a (non-Intel) Mac isn't really the best deal anyway. For 
> example, Sara Kolster's OSX performance patches, which capture and mix a 
> live Firewire cam with prerecorded clips in a total of four buffers, 
> were all made in PDP first and redone later in GEM at less than half the 
> CPU cost.
> 
> grtz to the ASCII crew!
> d.
> 
> -- 
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