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Re: 2nd display not working (ogl disapearing)

Thijs Koerselman Thijs Koerselman 16 169	Mar 9, 2006 at 10:33pm Re: 2nd display not working (ogl disapearing) I take that back…, s-video is working with regular jitter matrix patches. If I run a patch with open gl, using a floating window, it draws black as I drag it to the video output. Only the frame remains. If I drag it back, the context gets redrawn and the objects are back. If change the position of jit.window to a different monitor, it says: jit.gl.render: building GL on window “context”… sounds reasonable, only on s-video it stays black. Is this some kind of bug? I’m really getting worried now. Please tell me I’m doing something wrong. Thijs #24809
Joshua Kit Clayton Joshua Kit Clayton 10 3 42	Mar 9, 2006 at 10:53pm Hi Thijs, This should work. However, you haven’t provided us enough information to offer any advice. As always, please follow the oft posted bug reporting guidelines with detailed information about your HW, Graphics card, driver version, Software version, a simple example patch that illustrates the problem with clear steps to reproduce. Otherwise there is little chance we will take the time to investigate your problems. Thanks, Joshua #72310
Thijs Koerselman Thijs Koerselman 16 169	Mar 9, 2006 at 11:49pm Sorry I wasn’t clear. I can use any patch from the help files. Take jit.gl.render help. move floating window with the rotating plane and move it to the 2nd monitor. In the case of s-video, I only see the window object with a black content. move it back the rotating plane is there again. This works fine with non-opengl like a video played in the jit.windowhelpfile. For my vga output the jit.window help file doesn’t work either. I only get a distorted image of the last frame. If I place the window halfway, only the half on my primary monitor keeps playing. I reported my system in the first mail, but here it is: win xp home, jitter 1.5.2, nvidia go6800, dell inspiron 9300, pentium M. Yesterday I did a presentation using the vga output, and oddly enough I got it to work (ogl also) using the “clone display” setting of my video card instead of “dual display”. I can’t work like that for life performances because then I’d loose my interface. Other apps like mediaplayer or winamp work fine using a second monitor. Best, Thijs #72311
Jennek Geels Jennek Geels 10	Mar 10, 2006 at 12:10am As I understand it, the part of the window that is on the second display actually has a different render context than the one on the first. so if you move a window from one screen to another, that new context does not have the initialisation that the first one has had. this is confusing as in your patch there is only one jit.gl.render when I move a window from one screen to another, I always have to redefine textures and erasecolor etc again for the jit.gl.render involved. HtH -jennek #72312
Joshua Kit Clayton Joshua Kit Clayton 10 3 42	Mar 10, 2006 at 1:03am Hi Thijs, Thanks for clarifying. Unfortunately, I’m unable to reproduce your problems on my PC, when I simply drag the window in jit.gl.render.help to the second VGA monitor. Here’s my machine info: AMD Dual Opteron XP Pro SP2 GeForce 6800 GT NVidia ForceWare Driver 77.22 (not the latest) MaxMSP 4.5.6 Jitter 1.5.2 This should work properly, and my first recommendation would be to try updating your graphics card drivers if possible. -Joshua #72313
Thijs Koerselman Thijs Koerselman 16 169	Mar 10, 2006 at 9:28pm Thanks Joshua and Jennek, I got it working on both vga and s-vhs. I think because of adding jit.displays, I’m not really sure. I also tried to update my drivers, but only Dell drivers are supporting my go6800. There are lots of problems that remain. I can’t figure them all out, but it seems there are multiple bugs going on. - my cpu is increased by at least 20% both vga and s-vhs (is this normal? My patch is open-gl only) - changing the jit.window’s sync attribute while using the 2nd display freezes max, both vga and svhs - switching the window between primary and secondary output makes changes to opengl object settings. Especially gl.models disappearing. I have to change the material_mode setting to bring them back. - when playing around max often reaches 95% cpu usages and stays up, even though my patch always runs between 30-60% The best result I’ve had with vga. setting the window to the 2nd output before turning on the rendering, because switching window positions seems to cause a lot of trouble. Using svhs I haven’t managed to get reasonable cpu usage at all. I know this is not a proper bug report, but If there are settings / things I can try to solve some of these problems I’d really appreciate the help. I don’t have time left to really get into these bugs, because I’ve lost a lot of time already and I have to prepare for a gig in few days. I guess keeping my fingers crossed it the most I can do :-( Best, Thijs #72314
aartcore aartcore 1 7 12	Mar 11, 2006 at 10:49am yo thijs, Did you try your patch on a mac yet? Otherwise as an backup you can also use my PowerBook for the performance. I had never problems with jit.windows on a second monitor on a mac. ight! aartcore >> 16 March 2006 opening of the SWITCH exposition with performances at V2_ Rotterdam, The Netherlands. More info: http://switch.wdka.hro.nl/ < < #72315
Thijs Koerselman Thijs Koerselman 16 169	Mar 11, 2006 at 1:55pm thanks for offering, but I don’t think I have time to test it. Switching to mac would also mean I have to test and recompile some externals and pluggos I’m using. Maybe as a last resort…I hope not. best, t_ #72316

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