July 24, 2007

DJV Imaging 0.7.0

A new update for DJV today:

Hi Everyone,

Just released a new beta version of my flipbook player and imaging utilities. There are lots of changes in this version, the main one being a new OpenGL accelerated imaging pipeline which should provide some nice speed boosts. Image I/O performance for uncompressed DPX and Targa files has also been improved; I would be very interested in any feedback from people using SANs or RAIDs.

Homepage: http://djv.sourceforge.net/
Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=118244

Couple of notes:
* Graphics hardware with texturing is now required to run the flipbook player.
* OpenEXR files are no longer supported with IRIX.
* IRIX QuickTime support requires the libiconv package from Nekoware.

Thanks!

Discussion can be found in this forum thread.

Posted by nekonoko at 3:42 AM

May 14, 2007

IRIX Blender 2.44 Released

Earlier today, Charles (Jarndyce911) announced the immediate availability of IRIX Blender 2.44! At this time, you can grab it here:

http://download.blender.org/release/Blender2.44/blender-2.44-irix-6.5-mips.tar.bz2

It should also show up on the main Blender download page at some point.

A complete list of new features and release notes for version 2.44 is available as well. Forum discussion can be found here.

Posted by nekonoko at 6:32 PM

May 8, 2007

DJV Imaging 0.6.1

An update to DJV is now available:

Hi,

Just a small bump to let everyone know I have a new release out; this one includes support for Cineon images and faster DPX image I/O.

http://djv.sourceforge.net/

Thanks for all the feedback!

As before, discussion can be found in this forum thread.

Posted by nekonoko at 12:00 PM

May 7, 2007

Easy Desktop Backgrounds

deBug has posted a very slick typerule/script package that greatly simplifies the process of adding desktop backgrounds, making it a simple point and click affair. This forum thread contains the download link as well as a great visual walkthrough of the popup menu. IRIX 6.5.22 or greater is required.

Posted by nekonoko at 1:13 PM

Blender 2.44RC2 Ready For Testing

A new Blender release candidate has arrived today courtesy of Charles (Jarndyce911). This release appears to solve the "iconv" problems reported with 2.43, so definitely check it out if you were having issues.

The tarball is currently available directly from Blender.org.

Discussion/feedback can be found in this forum thread.

Posted by nekonoko at 8:24 AM