ola,
nice report...
well, to rea your video files, the simplest would be to use pdp_live~ if you have a pidip compiled with support for ffmpeg ( the debian package does ).
you can also convert them to theora with ffmpeg2theora and use pdp_theorin~, but both these solutions would be CPU greedy, the prefered format for PDP is still quicktime/photo JPEG...
for your pdp_xv not working, what does 'xvinfo' says ? if the number of ports is >0, i don't have any rational explanation..
suerte, sevy
John Harrison wrote:
ubuntu Breezy:
just compiled gem2pdp from the source. Compilation was fine and the externals seem to load OK. Pd command window reports gem2pdp 0.6 loading fine. However, I can't get the gem2pdp.pd help patch to produce the expected results. It appears that the gem2pdp object's outlet does not contain data or something. I just get a black screen in the PDP window. No errors are reported in the Pd command window or the Linux command line. If it makes a difference, I had to switch video output on PDP from pdp_xv to pdp_glx. I can see CPU usage shooting up in the patch when I am rendering in Gem, so something is supposed to be happening. Since I can get pdp_noise to output to a pdp window, I know the basic PDP output mechanism is working.
Part of why this is such an issue for me is just trying to get video files to play. I can't seem to find a way to convert my videos into a format that pdp or pidip likes. Gem plays 'em fine. If anybody has tips for me on this (good utilities etc.), I'd appreciate it.
Experimentation has been with the included help-gem2pdp.pd patch in the reference section of the documentation.
BTW I am also confused about why pdp_XV doesn't work. xvideo output works fine in other programs, such as vlc. xvinfo reports nothing unusual. pdp_xv reports that it can't create the window.
I had to compile from the source because the gem2pdp/pdp2gem binaries in the Breezy repo crash Pd.
Pd 0.38.4 Gem from latest CVSs compiled with -disable-ARB
Thanks in advance,
-John
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