Possible Mentors

• Hans-Christoph Steiner

• IOhannes m zmölnig

Description

PDP (Pure Data Packet) is a popular extension library for Pure Data, providing video and other media processing fuctionality. Unfortunately it is one of the few extensions to Pure Data, which only run on Linux and Mac. As PDP is used by many people for VJing, video-processing, motion-tracking, etc. there is a big interest to port pdp to the windows platform.

The goal of this project is to port the whole PDP and PiDiP library to windows, preferred using gcc and MinGW.

Resources to start:

• PDP code: http://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pure-data/trunk/externals/pdp/

• PiDiP code: http://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pure-data/trunk/externals/pidip/

• http://iem.kug.ac.at/pd/externals-HOWTO : a tutorial on how to write C externals for pure data

• http://zwizwa.be/pdp/ : information about PDP

• http://ydegoyon.free.fr/pidip.html : information about PiDiP

Required Skills

• C programming

• experience with MinGW will be very helpful

• some knowledge with buildsystems (makefiles, autoconf) on Windows

• interest in video processing