I've just completed the first round of porting xjadeo to OSX.
On the way to learn about cross-OS video coding and prepare for sodankyla, I've added a native display (carbon/quicktime) and included a mac-style menu-bar to Jadeo instead of using remote-control and qjadeo. Far from perfect but usable, there's still performance improvements on the ToDo-list and surely a bug or two to fix ;)
* see osxjadeo for download and built instructions.
expect a universal binary DMG and merge with sourceforge-SVN mid next week.
Amending: a DMG for testing is available from here; I've postponed further work until there's more feedback.
Discussion
nice job
Hey, It's me, the guy who wrote the tutorial for using Jadeo on OS X. Could you please code in a few lines that would make the space bar toggle the transport (when Jadeo is focussed)
right now, work flow to position the playhead then monitor is like:
alt-tab to ardour
position playhead
alt-tab to jadeo
press space
realise that that doesn't start the play head
now either alt-tab to ardour, press space and quickly alt-tab it back to jadeo
or pull down the menu (into a submenu!) and press play - lame
cheers! Your app helps me a lot!
I've just added 'space' (toggle JACK-transport) and 'backspace' rewind JACK-transport to SVN. It'll take a few days until I get a packaged universal binary..
Anyway, I'd recommend put simply put Jadeo 'always on top' (press 'a' on the Jadeo window) or fullscreen on a 2nd screen and only interact with ardour.
FWIW, I often use gjacktransport as standalone jack-transport application to control both ardour & xjadeo.
FWIW, Ben's tutorial can be found at http://www.out-of-order.ca/wordpress/tutorial/composing-soundtracks-with-ardour-on-mac-os-x/
and xjadeo-0.4.7 with 'space': play/pause and 'backspace': rewind keyboard-shortcuts can be downloaded for testing from http://rg42.org/_media/oss/xjadeo/jadeo-0.4.7.dmg
Hi, this is an old post but thought I'd ask anyway.
Most links I've seen online for xjadeo are to version 0.4.6 (which is 14.6mb). Just seeing this one to 0.4.7 now and it's only 4.6mb. Is there a reason it's so much smaller? Any reason I should stick with version 0.4.6 over the newer version 0.4.7 listed above?
Thanks heaps for this app.
The reason for the huge size-difference is that xjadeo 0.4.6 for OSX includes debug-information. These debug-symbols have been stripped for the 0.4.7 release.
Apart from that the only difference is that 0.4.7 can be remote-controlled via OSC but this feature is only useful for video-installations and disabled by default (you need to start jadeo from the commandline with -O <osc-port> argument).
Oh, and 0.4.7 includes a more recent version of ffmpeg which may (or may not) improve support for some video codecs.