pdplayer on linux

[Morbid Angel]

Hello there,
Pdplayer is a great app, but for us the biggest draw back was that its not available on linux. We use about 50% of our resources on linux, such as compositing and i/o. Having a version on linux would be a great thing.

[dimitar.krastev]

Hello there,
Pdplayer is a great app, but for us the biggest draw back was that its not available on linux. We use about 50% of our resources on linux, such as compositing and i/o. Having a version on linux would be a great thing.

Hello

For the moment pdplayer is available only for Windows and we currently don't have a version for Linux. We do get many requests for a Linux version and it has been added in our "To do" list however we cannot commit to a specific release date at this time.

However people have been using the windows version under Linux with wine. We haven`t been testing pdplayer under these conditions and cannot vouch for its stability or performance. However we are very interested in any feedback any one can give us on that matter.

Regards

Jimmy

[pdimov]

Having a version on linux would be a great thing.

Any ideas on which Linux distributions/versions we need to target?

[Morbid Angel]

you mean which linux versions to support?
its a tricky one. I suppose most common ones such as fedora red heat, which is what we are running. What I would suggest is to have an install but also to include makefile, so we could compile our own. We had situations in a past where specific plugins though created for linux, would not run for us, so we had to recompile it under our own version of linux. Im not really a linux expert though, so you might want to research that further.

[tricota]

You should really Consider Ubuntu, is the biggest Linux distribution nowadays. And is the one that keeps growing and growing among the others.

http://www.cadiidxa.lunasexta.org/wp...tributions.jpg

[vlado]

For V-Ray for Maya, we compile on Fedora; this seems to work fine in a number of other distributions including Ubuntu. The issue there is to mimize the dependency on other libraries, as things tend to break when they are updated with newer versions and you can be never sure which particular version of the library is installed.

Best regards,
Vlado

[emora]

Fedora and Red Hat are close and from the same "branch" those should be the first as most compositing and other post applications run on those.. also Ubuntu has a big user base

Esteban

[cpnichols]

We use Fedora mainly because that is what Autodesk supports.