Wow -- thanks for the great report Rick, and kudos to Brian for what looks like a successful build. I'd be curious to see that debug log.
Cheers, RJ Rick Prokup wrote: > Hi there, Brian. I installed your compiled package on my aging mac > mini (1.25ghz G4, OSX 10.4.11). Mixxx loads up just fine, and I > wanted to run it through the gauntlet so I added a rather large music > collection (~160Gb). It took an eternity to scan the music > collection, but that is to be expected on an older G4 cpu, I think. > > I selected a few tracks and played them and everything went well, > although the interface stopped rendering waveforms after the 2nd track > had been loaded into a deck. I played around with things for a little > while, then I added my scs.3d to the fray. The midi mapping worked > flawlessly, and all was well as far as controls go. I did, however, > run into some problems in use: whenever I switched virtual decks on > the scs.3d, I got an audible stutter in music output. I am quite > certain that this is because mixxx was running on a 1.25ghz G4 with > 1Gb of ram, though. > > Other things that I tested were the flanger effect and support for > ALAC music (.m4a files). The flanger worked perfectly and it's really > nice to be able to tweak the parameters with the scs.3d. Loads of > fun. Apple Lossless music was a no-go, however. Unfortunately, this > meant that 99% of the music collection on the host I was unuseable. > > I did play around more at this point with leaving the app running for > long periods of time. Mixxx survived being left running for about two > hours and was still responsive (and by that point, the waveform > displays had been written to the screen). Mixxx did not survive being > left running overnight, however. I will have to repeat these tests > when launching mixxx from a shell so that I can see what messages get > written to stdout. > > All in all, it works as well as you could hope for. Honestly, I'd say > most of the "issues" I ran into are because of the speed of the box > that I was using to run mixxx. > > Please let me know if there are any specific tests that you would like > me to try on my mac mini, and thanks for the build! > > -Rick > > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Brian Jackson <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > I've built a universal copy of Mixxx 1.7.0-beta1. I'd appreciate if > anyone with a PowerPC Mac could test this to see if it runs for them. > You shouldn't need any other libs or anything to get this going. > > http://theiggy.com/tmp/Mixxx.zip > (it's about 26MB) > > If my script worked, I can probably massage it to build 1.6.1 builds > too. > > --Iggy > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited > royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing > server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > _______________________________________________ > Mixxx-devel mailing list > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel > > > > > -- > If the government wants us to respect the law, it should set a better > example. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited > royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing > server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Mixxx-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Are you an open source citizen? Join us for the Open Source Bridge conference! Portland, OR, June 17-19. Two days of sessions, one day of unconference: $250. Need another reason to go? 24-hour hacker lounge. Register today! http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;215844324;13503038;v?http://opensourcebridge.org _______________________________________________ Mixxx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
