I've just completed the first round of porting xjadeo to OSX.
On the way to learn about cross-OS video coding and prepare for sodankyla, I've added a native display (carbon/quicktime) and included a mac-style menu-bar to Jadeo instead of using remote-control and qjadeo. Far from perfect but usable, there's still performance improvements on the ToDo-list and surely a bug or two to fix ;)
expect a universal binary DMG and merge with sourceforge-SVN mid next week.
Amending: a DMG for testing is available from here; I've postponed further work until there's more feedback.
Discussion
nice job
Hey, It's me, the guy who wrote the tutorial for using Jadeo on OS X. Could you please code in a few lines that would make the space bar toggle the transport (when Jadeo is focussed)
right now, work flow to position the playhead then monitor is like:
alt-tab to ardour
position playhead
alt-tab to jadeo
press space
realise that that doesn't start the play head
now either alt-tab to ardour, press space and quickly alt-tab it back to jadeo
or pull down the menu (into a submenu!) and press play - lame
cheers! Your app helps me a lot!
I've just added 'space' (toggle JACK-transport) and 'backspace' rewind JACK-transport to SVN. It'll take a few days until I get a packaged universal binary..
Anyway, I'd recommend put simply put Jadeo 'always on top' (press 'a' on the Jadeo window) or fullscreen on a 2nd screen and only interact with ardour.
FWIW, I often use gjacktransport as standalone jack-transport application to control both ardour & xjadeo.
FWIW, Ben's tutorial can be found at http://www.out-of-order.ca/wordpress/tutorial/composing-soundtracks-with-ardour-on-mac-os-x/
and xjadeo-0.4.7 with 'space': play/pause and 'backspace': rewind keyboard-shortcuts can be downloaded for testing from http://rg42.org/_media/oss/xjadeo/jadeo-0.4.7.dmg