On Jan 25, 2006, at 7:01 PM, Tom Schouten wrote:
I have a request from the documentation point of view. It would be very handy if the docs and the example patches used a cross-platform method for getting video in. Also, rather than using live video in the docs and examples, it would be easier for most people if you could use a video file. Then people without a video camera could play with the docs and help files.
good point. there are the [pdp_help_input] and [pdp_help_output] paches that could be changed on install. i never got to automagically fill them in the install/compile process though..
I think that having this stuff generated at build time would make distributing PDP more difficult. How about instead having [pdp_help_input] have both a video file input and a video camera input, so the user can decide which source to use whenever she is using the patch.
And lastly, a cross-platform method of outputting. [pdp_xv] is used in the docs and examples. It compiles and loads on Mac OS X, but no one AFAIK has gotten it working yet.
another thing on the list. i'm thinking of [pdp_vdac] and [pdp_vadc]
Whatever works :).
Also, while you are at it, here's a patch for changes needed to make PDP in the CVS developers' layout (http://puredata.org/docs/developer/devlayout ). It would be good to have this in your PDP sources:
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