hi. i move this thread to the pd-list (which you should become member of, if you are not already), because that is normally the place to ask such questions (esp. when comparing machines/systems, the large community has much more knowledge than a single person could ever have)
boris.vol@free.fr wrote:
Hello, thanks very mutch i practice gem on pure data and i like that ! it's great. but i 've a questio again :
- how with gem we output to an external monitor ?
that depends on what your "external monitor" is. if you have a multi-headed gfx-card, you could use you window-manager (grab the window and drag it to the 2nd monitor) or a combination of "offset" "dimen" and "border" messages (before creating the gem-window) to put the window whereever you like (for instance: onto the 2nd monitor/tv/beamer/...) if you have an expensive video-editing card with TV-out i have to say, sorry, no way to do it (yet).
- what is the best platform for using pd with gem ?
linux, windows xp, winnt ?
depends on what you are doing. i guess nt is a not so good choice, since lot's of "multimedia devices" are not really supported on the platform any more. on xp i could only start a flame-war... personally i use linux, but ... on mac G4/G5 you have probably the best performance, esp. if you want to do image-processing rather than 3D-rendering (which, with a decent gfx-card/driver should be quite the same on all platforms)
my prossesor is 1,7 Gh is ok for using pd and gem with vidéo ?
should be fine. buy more memory ;-)
mfg.a.sdr IOhannes