[PD] [PD-announce] [ARRAST_VJ] - Pure Data/GEM Video Mixer/Mapper - www.arrastvj.org

Bruno Rohde brunorohde at gmail.com
Fri May 11 00:48:17 CEST 2018


>
> makes sense, since when i'm on windows i always put PD as a standalone
> version (the .zip package, without installer) on a seperate partition and
> thus don't know about "space in names" issues ;-)
>

Good to know, I can possibly suggest this as a strategy for other
interested Windows users.

i also have a SSD in my laptop and i'm coming to believe that this is a
> crucial aspect considering Gem's and PD's performance.
> so far i didn't have to use [pd~) to smoothly run audio AND video in the
> same instance of PD on my laptop (sometimes two HD movies and 3 soundfiles
> read from disk simultaneously !). i did however encounter those problems on
> computers using conventional harddisks. just my personal observation ...
>

Thank you for the informations. I will soon install an SSD on my laptop as
well.

Bruno


2018-05-10 15:49 GMT-03:00 oliver <oliver at klingt.org>:

> Bruno Rohde wrote:
>
> The reason for the Light version not to play audio is that audio and video
>> playback needs to be performed on 2 instances of the Pd so as not to
>> generate audio clicks as it does in the full version. At the time of
>> development, the object [pd~], used to manage the two instances and their
>> communication, presented a serious problem in Windows, because it was not
>> possible to run a patch located in a path with spaces in the name, and this
>> is standard in Windows (ex: C:/Program Files/). If I am not mistaken, in
>> version 0.48.1 of Pd this issue of [pd~] has been solved, but I have not
>> tested it yet.
>>
>
> makes sense, since when i'm on windows i always put PD as a standalone
> version (the .zip package, without installer) on a seperate partition and
> thus don't know about "space in names" issues ;-)
>
>
>> As soon as I have time, I'll run new tests on Windows. I'm excited about
>> your account of having managed to run the full version on Windows. By the
>> way, what version of Windows and Pd are you using?
>>
>
> Win 7 / 64bit
> PD 0.48.0
> Gem 0.93.3
>
> i also have a SSD in my laptop and i'm coming to believe that this is a
> crucial aspect considering Gem's and PD's performance.
>
> so far i didn't have to use [pd~) to smoothly run audio AND video in the
> same instance of PD on my laptop (sometimes two HD movies and 3 soundfiles
> read from disk simultaneously !). i did however encounter those problems on
> computers using conventional harddisks. just my personal observation ...
>
> so, running audio and video in seperate threads is definitely the safer
> way to go
>
>
> best
>
> oliver
>
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