hu list!
Actually I would like to see the list getting more a forum for "pd users" than for "pd linux installers".
;)) - maybe we should just rename the list?
So feel free to ask any question or request which comes to your mind during pd usage. Additionally if someone has some thnigs to share with others, (externals, patches ...) we could set up a site for pd resources.
joink.
whats on my mind rihgt now isnothing new, i just want to raise it again:
- mpeg-support:
well, it would be sufficient "just" to have the sfread obj. support mp3 format and i think for decoding there's various libraries available, so i shouldnt be too diffcult to get this running. for encoding, i guess its a bit more hairy, but if one could parallely to going into dac~ pipe the signal into an mp3-net-out object, so other pd's running on (inter)networked machines could catch the mpeg stream., wui ... i m not sure, but i assume that for doing this, one would still need some kind of an mpeg-stream dispenser (i.e. a server) which could divert one stream to various clients, which could run external to pd ..
- pd in daemon mode.
guenther, you mentioned that idea to me a while ago .. and i still think it would be absolutely great to be able to run pd without graphical interface. my hinter-thoughts in this are that i ve got a bunch of machines available on our network, some of them without video and/or soundcards. so if i load a patch on these running in background and sending their output signal onto the net rather than /dev/dsp it would offer great possibilites and almost endless processing resources ...
so let know the pro's comments on this, maybe somebody has other ideas to achieve the same and i d like to hear those ...
also , do you think its good to have a "central" site on which to dump patches/externals/abstractions to share (and to start off with) (which would raise various questions of administration and uptodateness) compared to have different user-sites where people just post their private sutff and get their urls on the list ... so if there will be a central site, it should only contain sort of tested and approved extensions and macros etc ... but anyway, somebody would have to take care of it ..
sofar.oswald