Hey
I tried one of my patches with GEM in PureDyne and the audi drops out.
The same patch in Vista has audio dropouts but not as often.
I would really like to get this working without audio dropouts in PureDyne because the latency is much less with PureDyne and I can actually hear what I'm recording when it's being recorded.

Is there some way to optimize GEM for PureDyne?

Puredyne does not provide proprietary drivers. I guess that the difference with vista comes from the lack of accelerated graphics. I don't know how to install those drivers on puredyne, though (it's way easier in Tango Studio).

You could also consider to separate the audio from the visuals in distinct pd instances communicating via OSC or netsend/netreceive.

Thanks Kyro

Here's a link on how to install the Nvidia drivers if anyone else has this problem with an Nvidia adapter. I'm not sure yet if my installation has the Nvidia drivers or not yet.

One other thing it might be is that in Vista I'm using the quicktime codec for recording video. I'm not sure what codec is default in linux but it's not the quicktime codec. That could very well be the problem.

If one had written a pointer based graphics primitives library many many years ago what library would be best for using this pointer based graphics primitives cross platform.
Is there a way to write directly to memory on an opengl framebuffer and blit the frame buffer?
You know like
char far *framebuffer=0xA0000000;
ysize=800;
xsize=600;

putpixel( int x, int y,char c){
*(framebuffer + y *ysize+x)=c;
};

How do you do a simple putpixel in GEM without creating a point object through the render chain. Is there such a thing as putpixel , line , rect, etc for drawing on a pixmap?

Ok I think part of my problem was low disk space and small swap partition. I installed to a larger partition and can now run a larger gem window in puredyne than in vista before the audio breaks up. Recording is still bad. I guess I just need to find the fastest codec that will work with the software installed that lets you combine audio and video. Anyone know what that codec would be right off hand?