[Libvisual-devel] A couple of requests

[salsaman <sal...@xs...>]

Hi,
just to keep track of things, there are still a couple of outstanding 
issues for LiVES/libvisual.

Flag for actors / fix gforce waveshape hangs
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This is important as it will allow LiVES to use a standard libvisual 
package, rather than a cut down one as at present.
There should be a flag which is only set for the following actors:

corona, gforce, infinite, jakdaw, oinksie, plazma, goom2, JESS

I think the gforce waveshape issue may be fixed in 0.2.0, at least I've 
not had a hang since I've installed the latest version.




Memory leaks
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My testing showed a 100K memory leak in corona, 200K memory leak in 
gforce, and a 5MB (!) memory leak in jackdaw.
I think the jackdaw issue may be solved now. (synap ?)

If this is fixed, I can add libvisual back into the autolives (auotmatic 
VJing module). This looks amazing, but quickly eats up all memory due to 
the fact that libvisual is being inited/deinited quite frequently.




Corona Randomisation
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Just a tiny issue, but corona doesn't seem that random, at least it 
always starts off blue. (or should that be red, we never did quite 
figure out that RGB/BGR issue ;-) )


Those are my requests for the next release of libvisual, other than 
those minor things, it's working amazingly well in LiVES.

Cheers,
Salsaman.