DiscoBrick can be purchased only through PayPal. All you need is a credit card and a free Paypal account. We will send you your own Serial Number through "e-junkie": you will receive an automatic e-mail with a link to download your Serial Number shortly after your purchase. We have chosen the most reliable partners to increase security and after-sales support levels. Should you encounter any difficulty during those steps, PLEASE do not hesitate to contact us directly by e-mail.



International Payments: USD - EURO : Our store lists its prices in Euros, but Paypal accepts all currency, and change is automatic - so you can pay in US dollars (or even japanese yen) even if the bill is in Euro.

As we already said, the freely downloadable Demo version of DiscoBrick has exactly the same features as the registered version - no time limitation, no disabled features - just a nagging demo text placed where it hurts the most :-).

If you experience some trouble with registration (the Demo image appears, however the PlugIn is registered) or your Options arent maintained correctly after a startup probably you have a problem with the preference file and/or his permission.

Our first suggestion is: repair the disk permissions, using Apple’s Disk Utility tool ( applications/utilities/Disk Utility), Onyx™, Cocktail™, or any other quality disk management tool. If the problem persists, delete the “DiscoBrick.preferences” file, located in the /Library/Preferences/ folder and retry the registration (you must provide both paypal mail and your personal code again).

Button:
Press the Preview button to access the Theme Selection panel, where you can disable or enable your favorite theme simply by clicking onto its thumbnail preview.

Themes panel:

You can customize a theme by replacing various textures present in a theme with your pictures, the current song cover art or live video. It all depends on what you select in the “Texture settings” pop-up menu in the Options panel. The possible setting are:

Default Theme: the engine uses the original textures from the theme;

Cover Art:
The engine uses the current song’s cover arts , if present; in case there’s no cover art, the original theme textures are used.




Pictures:
the engine uses one or a set of images dropped by the user in the area near the menu. This option currently supports only images in JPG or PNG format.



Live Video: the engine uses the live video (from iSight or external firewire sources);

The “Use Max quality” check box determines whether DiscoBrick uses the full-size image (picture, cover-art, livevideo) instead of a scaled version. Quality is better, specially with large displays, BUT performance might be affected on Macs with old videocard or less than 64MB of video RAM. If you notice a loss of performance just uncheck this checkbox.

The current framerate is displayed by pressing F key (press F key again to hide)

Just move the “Framerate” slider in the Options panel, but wait ! Moving it towards “High” simply gives DiscoBrick the permission to hog more and more resources: you get a higher frame rate (i.e. smoother animations) but less CPU and GPU remain available for other tasks (i.e.everything else slows down); If you move it towards “Low”DiscoBrick tries to use a low profile, lowering fhe frame rate. Use this setting on slower computers.
We recommended to leave the slider in the “Standard” position, which amounts to 30 to 40 frames per second -smooth enough, without hogging too much resources on current computers.

For comparison: when the slider is in the “Standard” position, on a standard Core2Duo DiB merely uses up to 10% of the CPU and operates at 40 FPS, if you slide it all the way to “High” the framerate can get up to a blazing, hyper-responsive and totally useless 250+ frames per second, while if you slide it all the way to Low the CPU merely recognizes DiscoBrick as a running process. Only in "Live Video" are required more resources.

Please note that if the “Enable Vertical Sync” checkbox is enabled, no matter how far to the right you move the framerate slider, you can’t get a frame rate higher than the monitor refresh rate - with standard LCD monitors, this means no more than 60 FPS.