VDIG for QT and jit.dx.grab in 4.6 / 5.0

oop, didnt read to the end, nor looked at the title.
yes it comes up often and the docs should be revised.

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 6:38 PM, yair reshef wrote:

> you'll find your happiness with *jit.dx.grab* which works great under
> windows for all your grabbing needs.
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> On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 6:05 PM, hs wrote:
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> > Hi,
> > I spend all Sunday afternoon working out the VDIG issue.
> > For all who try to do the same, I give a quick rundown of my experience:
> >
> > First, it started with doing the examples from the Jitter recipe#3
> > section in the tutorials.
> >
> > What I want to do is use my web cam on my laptop to capture gestures and
> > translate them into midi.
> >
> > After getting all the errors "Can' t get video connection", I came to
> > the posts that say that you have to get a VDIG software for Windows XP.
> >
> > The help text explains, that there are two way of getting VDIG.
> > One is freeware (www.vdig.com) , the other costs australian dollar
> > (abstract plane www.abstractplane.com).
> >
> > The official VDIG site doesn't exist anymore, the downloads I found
> > elsewhere (up to Version 1.05) didn't work on my laptop. And when I read the
> > forum right, it does not work for a lot of other people either.
> >
> > Frustration starts building up on Sunday afternoon, so I started to look
> > onto the commercial version.
> > The demo seems to work (test picture only) so i shelled out 16 EUR to
> > get it.
> >
> > More frustration builds up, since this piece of software wasn't working
> > either in MAX/Jitter, neither in 4.6 nor in 5.0.
> > I could not de-install the software (crashes my laptop).
> > After manually deleting all the files (also in the QT folder!) and
> > re-instaling, it started to work.
> >
> > But performance was horrible, and it stucked every some seconds.
> >
> > After looking into the Jitter tutorial, I found out that there is a much
> > better alternative:
> >
> > Use jit.DX.grab !. This is the Windows Direct X alternative!
> >
> > And it worked fine, plus, that the performance is much better.
> >
> > Lessons learnded:
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> > Paying money for software sometimes does not help. I think, if people
> > take money for their software, they should deliver proper functionality. I
> > don't go into war over 16 EUR, but I think this kind of quality sucks.
> >
> > Plus, C74 should be a bit more careful with commercial links and also
> > putting a remarker in the help file for wondows user.
> >
> > Sunday evening comes up, time to shutdown the PC.
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> > (IBM Laptop 2 Ghz, 2GB Ram, Windows XP SP2, Max/MSP/Jitter 4.6/5.0)
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