[PD] pix_freeframe - multiple outlets possible?

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

Martin Schied wrote:
> Hey again,
> 
> I'm doing some experiments on artoolkit in different host software. 
> After not getting pix_artoolkit compiling until know (anybody out there 
> with a running setup?) I wanted to try a freeframe plugin that handles 
> tracking. Originally it's written for vvvv: 
> http://vvvv.org/tiki-index.php?page=FreeFrameARTK%2BTracker.
> 
> In vvvv it's working quite well, but preferring open source software I'd 
> like to have it working in pd too. Creating pix_freeframe with that 
> plugin is working (at least it shows some information about the argument 
> inlets in debug output), but it has only one single outlet (in vvvv it 
> has additional outlets, which output the tracking data). So my question 
> here: is that plugin incompatible with pix_freeframe or will it use that 
> single output for everything? Because of an other Problem I got into 
> (other Topic), I can't test it by looking at the output yet, there's 
> only gemlist.
> 
>  From what I read about pix_freeframe it only has one outlet - but 
> perhaps it would be possible to modify pix_freeframe? Or take code from 
> it for another external (I know, that's easy to say but lots of work, 
> I'll try it on my own after learning some more c++ stuff)


as far as i understand, the FreeFrame-specs do not deal with 
analysis-plugins (that is: generating high-level informations from 
video-frames).
vvvv's ARTK-plugin uses an unpublished(?) non-official extension to the 
FreeFrame-API for retrieving analysis-data.

since Gem has (currently) only implemented the FreeFrame-1.0 _standard_, 
it does not support these things (yet).

i will eventually ask on the FF-list, how these things should be dealt with.

fgmasdr
IOhannes