Thanks very much for the help patch Cyrille, I'm still having trouble with it. No matter what path (or lack of path) I specify I get something like:

GEM: Unable to save image to 'blahblah/Home/Pd_files/test100000.jpg'

Is there a reason Pd might not be able to write to my HD (Ubuntu 14.04)?

Thanks again


On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Cyrille Henry <ch@chnry.net> wrote:
here is pix_writer help patch.
cheers
c


Le 23/06/2014 03:04, Richie Cyngler via Pd-list a écrit :

Hi IOhannes,

I was referring to the message that comes with this version of Pd-X.
 From the console: /WARNING: 64-bit builds are still beta, some libraries are known to have serious issues (cyclone, maxlib, moonlib, moocow, pdp, bsaylor, etc.) For more info, see the README.txt in '64-bit-warning-plugin' in the Help Browser/


Thanks for your help I followed your instructions and found that I have both gem_imageTIFF.so and gem_imageMAGICK.so so I disabled gem_imageTIFF.so and now Pd no longer crashes however "GEM: Unable to save image..." with [pix_write]. I tried [pix_writer] but it doesn't respond to a [file <name>( or a [bang( and there is no help that I can find. Would you mind explaining how to use [pix_writer] please. Then if I can get it working I'd be happy to write a help patch for it.

cheers



On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 5:06 PM, IOhannes m zmölnig <pd-list@lists.iem.at <mailto:pd-list@lists.iem.at>> wrote:

    On 06/18/2014 02:58 AM, Richie Cyngler via Pd-list wrote:
     > Hi all,
     >
     > No matter what I try I can't get [pix_write] to do much more than create
     > corrupted .tiffs that won't open or just crash Pd. Looks like it's missing
     > gem.conf?
     >
     > open: /etc/pd/gem.conf: No such file or directory
     > open: /home/research/.pd/gem.conf: No such file or directory
     > open: ./gem.conf: No such file or directory
     > pd: tif_dirwrite.c:2084: TIFFWriteDirectoryTagCheckedRational: Assertion
     > `value>=0.0' failed.
     > Pd: signal 6
     >
     > Running Pd Extended 0.43.4 64 bit on Ubuntu 14.04.

     > I know the 64 bit is buggy

    why? what?
    what exactly are you referring to with "the 64th bit"?
    how is it buggy?

     > but according to my searching [pix_write] has had issues for a while?

    if it does has issues with PdX-0.43.3 then it will have these issues
    forever. i don't think anybody will make a bugfix version of this PdX
    release ever...rather a new shiny PdX-0.45.6 might come out...

    in any case:
    - [pix_write] is deprecated in favour of [pix_writer] (which takes the
    incoming PIX to write, rather than creating a snapshot of the current
    framebuffer). the deprecation happened because [pix_write] is flawed by
    design rather than any bugs.

    - which imageplugins are you using? search for files called
    "gem_image*.so" in your extra/Gem/ folder.
    if you have both gem_imageTIFF.so and gem_imageMAGICK.so try disabling
    one of them (just rename it to something not starting with "gem_" && not
    ending with ".so, e.g. gem_imageTIFF.so.disabled) and see if it helps;
    if not try disabling the other one. the MAGICK plugin should be the
    preferred one.

    fgamsdr
    IOhannes


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