Today I published the latest and greatest of the Platinum SDK. Among a bunch of fixes and improvements, the main cool new thing is full support for Mac OSX (and Linux obviously) thanks to the little Mac mini I bought K. a couple years ago. So the SDK is now available for Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, XBox, PSP. I am also working on some linux-based embedded platforms (gp2x, chumby, …).
Here’s the changelog I put together:
Platinum 0.3.0.0
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Fixes/Changes:
– Added MacOSX support.
– Fixed socket abortion problem on Linux (using a pipe).
– Complete rewrite to use threads instead of interrupt driven round-robin. The benefit is that throughput is now greatly improved (for streaming especially).
– Addded a new App: MediaCrawler
– Split up AV MediaServer code. Now the FileMediaServer is one implementation of the AV MediaServer. More to follow.
– Added README, CHANGELOG, LICENSE files
Known issues:
– AV MediaServer Search not implemented yet.
– Http server does not use a thread pool. This can be a problem with hungry ControlPoints like the Intel Tools AV MediaController.
So a few weeks ago, I was at a conference in San Diego and I met my old buddy T. We both used to be in our own little band playing our favorite instrument, secretly hoping to become the next guitar hero (like every teenage boy does after listening to Jimi Hendrix for the first time). Anyways, talking with him about music and reminescing about the good times, when the only thing we had to worry about at the time was doing our homework and whether or not we would ever get to kiss a girl, ever (thus the guitar hero dream ’cause we knew they were getting some at least) made me want to play again … a lot. Ok I may not have become a guitar hero but I got to kiss a few girls, but still I want to play again .. a lot.
Too bad thierry is not in the bay area anymore, we could start our own little band and go back in time like nothing had happened (you know, the hair loss and all). In the meantime, he mentioned some really cool new music apps to check out like AmpliTube. I digg it a lot. Sounds almost as good as my POD. I am going to check out Guitar Rig too. For electronic music, there’s always a Reason.
Platinum v0.3.0.0 is around the corner. The new version now supports true multithreading. No more round-robin man-made time sliced threading scheduler crap! While it was cool to have a pure pull system, it had a terrible throughput. Streaming files was terribly slow because I was only checking socket availability/status every 10ms (which means more like 100ms on Windows). So throughput was always capped to a ratio buffersize / sleep time. Anyway, this is all fixed. The Web server is screaming fast now (faster than the Intel Tools!)
More exciting features and bug fixes too!
Yep, once again, PSP latest firmware has been hacked. On top of that, you don’t even need an eloader anymore to launch homebrews AND it supports kernel mode calls. Brilliant.
I was looking for something on the web and found this really cool service that let’s you track your baby’s habits (sleeping, feeding, pooping, etc..). I don’t know if we’d use it (it aren’t free) but it’s very neat. If you got a newborn (Eugene, Adam, Nick & soon to be Alex) and you love aggregated data (that would be Nick ;-)), check it out!
Update: On a side note, check out the dad’s blog, it’s hilarious (and scary too for me as a new father).
Just found reading rob’s blog about a cool new concept. The idea behind BookMooch is pretty simple, yet quite powerful:
- You list the books you want to give away on BookMooch.
- When someone wants a book of yours, you send it to them and get credit for doing so.
- Take your earned credits and request books you want from others.
Pretty neat.
