i just wanted to mention that some files MADE with pdp opened fine on os X 10.4.6 until the quicktime 7.1 update . Apple did something and now certain files with jpeg codec will not open at all.

---- derek holzer derek@x-i.net wrote:

Hi xname,

xname@scii.nl wrote:

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i am asking the list if is there anyone who installed pdp on macosx 4, and who has it working, which means not only that the library is loaded, but also that you can actually play videos so the xserver works.

I got PDP to run with HC's 0.38.4-extended-RC8 installer. Sara Kolster and I used the following instructions for several workshops:

mv pdp_pidip_osx.tar.gz / cd / sudo tar xvfz pdp_pidip_osx.tar.gz cd /usr/local/lib/pd/pdp_pidip_osx cp pdp.pd_darwin /Applications/Pd-0.38.4-extended-RC8.app/Contents/Resources/extra/ sudo cp /usr/local/lib/pd/pdp_pidip_osx/fonts/* /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF

The source of this pdp_pidip_osx.tar.gz was:

http://tdegoyon.free.fr/pdp_pidip_osx.tar.gz

I don't know if Yves has updated it since we downloaded it and kept an archival copy. We also used the X11 installer from Apple.

PDP runs and we can do all the direct video synthesis stuff with it. However, I do have problems with Quicktime playback using this, as did quite a few workshop participants. Our "reference" clips, encoded with the PhotoJPEG codec, won't play for me. My guess is that the Apple's Quicktime is to blame, but I haven't spent much time looking into it since we dropped PDP from our workshops simply because it was so much more complicated to get running than GEM, not to mention the cross-platform issues.

If video playback is what you are looking for, I can highly recommend using GEM. Both [pix_film] and [pix_video] are much more reliable and work with much less overhead than PDP does in general on OSX . I'm afraid PDP is another one of those things in the PD world that is much more highly developed for Linux, and also Tom has included a lot of optimizations for Intel architecture in PDP that make me think that running it on a (non-Intel) Mac isn't really the best deal anyway. For example, Sara Kolster's OSX performance patches, which capture and mix a live Firewire cam with prerecorded clips in a total of four buffers, were all made in PDP first and redone later in GEM at less than half the CPU cost.

grtz to the ASCII crew! d.

-- derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl ---Oblique Strategy # 83: "How would someone else do it?"

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