[PD] share-mem lib

[Cyrille Henry]

Le 25/02/2013 16:17, IOhannes m zmoelnig a écrit :
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> On 2013-02-25 15:54, Cyrille Henry wrote:
>> on the other hand, pix_share_read / pix_share_write are dedicated
>> to share pix data. but the id provide is not the shmid.
>
> right, it is a hashed version of the shmid, in order to make it more
> easily usable within Pd.
i'm curious : what make the hash shmid more usable than the integer Id?
i used the int id for shmem because i did not find any good reason not to.

cheers
c

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>>> I'd like to use this to share pixes with veejay (a vjing tool
>>> that runs on linux). Veejay wants YUV and can read/write from/to
>>> shm. So it looks like communication can be done pretty easily.
>>> (note there's also an OGRE plugin that uses shm).
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> the thing with shm is, that you are sharing raw memory.
> just because multiple applications support reading/writing from/to
> shared memory, doesn't necessarily mean that they can share data in a
> meaningful way.
> the applications have to interpret the raw memory in the same way in
> order to make sense.
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> a standardized way for sharing videos between applications on linux is
> the "v4l2loopback" virtual video device.
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> fgmasdr
> IOhannes
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