Re: [Libvisual-devel] A couple of requests

[Dennis S. <sy...@yo...>]

On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 18:02 +0100, salsaman wrote:
> Hi,
> just to keep track of things, there are still a couple of outstanding 
> issues for LiVES/libvisual.

First of all, congrats with the new Lives release, and the demo which
looks awesome

> Flag for actors / fix gforce waveshape hangs
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> 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.

The offending waveshapes are removed, but I had G-Force hanging a 
different one a while ago, couldn't reproduce, as ussual.

I plan to replace the G-Force VM altogether, somewhere when we're 
nearing 0.4.0, which is in 4 to 5 months or something ;)

I don't understand what you mean by 'a flag'  ? If you mean that we 
should indicate which plugins are good for lives and which not, this 
is not something to happen in a library, and it's very subjective.

> Memory leaks
> -------------------
> 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 ?)

Jakdaw is solved in CVS, that was a very huge mistake yeah.

For the rest, I need detailed valgrind reports. Leaks can also happen
in libraries.

> 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.

Sounds great

> Corona Randomisation
> ------------------------------
> 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 ;-) )

Blue yeah, and you're right, will fix it.

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

Good to hear!

> Cheers,
> Salsaman.

Cheers,
Dennis