Re: [PD] Gem and ieee1394 firewire cam on linux debian

2007-08-22 Thread Tim Boykett
I plan to update the help file for pix_video before hans gets the next extended out the door. cheers, tim On 22/08/2007, at 9:58 AM, Olivier Heinry wrote: Le mardi 21 août 2007 à 22:49 +0200, Tim Boykett a écrit : Apologies for a slight stuff up, The suggestion I made here, I now notice

Re: [PD] SMP Questions

2007-08-22 Thread Phil Stone
Tim Blechmann wrote: With the small exception that, as Hans mentioned, two cores will be of benefit because the graphics process can run on its own core. the benefit is that minimal, that it's hardly worth mentioning ... just run your favorite patch and look at the used cpu time ...

[PD] Starting with subpatches

2007-08-22 Thread Javier García
Hi, im trying to create a subpatch like the colored boxes of the patch i attach (open _KINOKO.pd). These are my steps: I create an object called [pd c]. A new pd window appears. Inside this new window I create an [inlet] and an [outlet] object and i press the second button of my mouse and

Re: [PD] SMP Questions

2007-08-22 Thread Robert Scott
On Tuesday 21 August 2007 22:25, Tim Blechmann wrote: i somehow doubt, that i would make sense to use a jackdmp-style multicore scheduling algorithm for a max/pd/nova dsp graph, which can easily contain thousands of nodes (jack graphs are usually rather small), because of the scheduling

Re: [PD] difference send and using msg with ;

2007-08-22 Thread Robert Scott
On Wednesday 22 August 2007 13:18, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: making DS and pointers work again. The reason I ended up abandoning data structures was, as far as I could see, the only way to get data from them was by polling them. Which I found ridiculous. I found it was much easier and less

Re: [PD] Gem and ieee1394 firewire cam on linux debian

2007-08-22 Thread Georg Holzmann
Tim Boykett schrieb: Apologies for a slight stuff up, The suggestion I made here, I now notice deep in the source, has been made. with the message |device /dev/dv1394/0( to pix_video I could have made this work all those days ago. It should be documented in the help patch though ...

Re: [PD] SMP Questions

2007-08-22 Thread Tim Blechmann
One of the limitations with the Pd DSP chain *is* it's style of modularity. The stream is broken down into indivisible blocks. The tree is parallel at the top, but as you go down the tree, it becomes more and more serial. There would be a bottleneck, where the parallel processes aren't

Re: [PD] Gem and ieee1394 firewire cam on linux debian

2007-08-22 Thread Georg Holzmann
Tim Boykett schrieb: Apologies for a slight stuff up, The suggestion I made here, I now notice deep in the source, has been made. with the message |device /dev/dv1394/0( to pix_video I could have made this work all those days ago. I should be documented in the help patch though ...

Re: [PD] SMP Questions

2007-08-22 Thread Tim Blechmann
That's too bad. I'll take your word for it that jackdmp wouldn't be able to manage the inter-process connection in a scalable way -- I'm not familiar with how it works. I'm disappointed, because it sounded like a cheap (and yes, slightly inconvenient -- but better than nothing) way to

Re: [PD] Gem and ieee1394 firewire cam on linux debian

2007-08-22 Thread Olivier Heinry
Le mardi 21 août 2007 à 22:49 +0200, Tim Boykett a écrit : Apologies for a slight stuff up, The suggestion I made here, I now notice deep in the source, has been made. with the message |device /dev/dv1394/0( to pix_video I could have made this work all those days ago. Cheers,

Re: [PD] difference send and using msg with ;

2007-08-22 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Robert Scott wrote: So following this pattern, will 0.42 be a compatibility-breaking redesign replacing insane messages with LISP-like lists of lists and atoms? In DesireData, as soon as I'm done reprogramming the GOP feature (which has been dragging for a while and is

Re: [PD] audio drop-outs when resizing tables??

2007-08-22 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Tim Blechmann wrote: On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 11:09 -0700, Miller Puckette wrote: Resizing large memory objects in a real-time thread can block as the OS pages other memory out to disk... so the operation is never safe unless done in a separate thread. what's the problem

Re: [PD] Starting with subpatches

2007-08-22 Thread Olivier Heinry
Le mercredi 22 août 2007 à 00:40 +0200, Javier García a écrit : Hi, im trying to create a subpatch like the colored boxes of the patch i attach (open _KINOKO.pd). These are my steps: I create an object called [pd c]. A new pd window appears. Inside this new window I create an

Re: [PD] difference send and using msg with ;

2007-08-22 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Robert Scott hat gesagt: // Robert Scott wrote: So following this pattern, will 0.42 be a compatibility-breaking redesign replacing insane messages with LISP-like lists of lists and atoms? I think, with the introduction of the [list] object family, many more LISP-like list operations

Re: [PD] SMP Questions

2007-08-22 Thread Charles Henry
On 8/21/07, Tim Blechmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to make use of a multicore machine the only way to utilize all cores is to run several instances of pd, that are connected via jackdmp. Now *there's* an idea. Would that really work? What would be the downside -- aside from the

Re: [PD] pd-gui waiting for connection request

2007-08-22 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Matthias Blau hat gesagt: // Matthias Blau wrote: after playing around with debian etch I can't get pd to pop up the gui anymore, pd -verbose just tells me it is using port 5400 and Waiting for connection request... and doesn't do anything. Googling around told me that there

[PD] How can I mirror the canvas into a GEM window?

2007-08-22 Thread joan
Hello, I'm starting to use puredata recently, and I'd like to know if there exists a simple way to put a real-time mirror of the canvas into a gem window, for example, to overlay the images I want to display with the puredata objects I use to generate them. Someone told me in max/msp there is