idTracker in Linux or Mac

[Alfonso Pérez Escudero]

Right now there is no stand-alone version of idTracker that works on Linux or Mac.

You can use idTracker in Linux/Mac if you have Matlab, by executing directly the source code. This is the procedure:

- Download the source code of idTracker from http://www.idtracker.es/code
- Copy all files to the same folder in your hard drive.
- Open Matlab, and make this folder 'working folder' in Matlab's command window (this means that you select this folder in the drop-down menu at the top of Matlab's command winow).
- Execute the command idTracker in Matlab's command window. This will launch idTracker, in the same way as the stand-alone version.

A couple of possible problems:
- Matlab version: idTracker was developed on Matlab 2013b. Our friends at Matlab did a full revamp of the graphics engine in some newer version (2014b, I think). And idTracker is not yet compatible with the new engine, so it does not run well in newer versions.
- Video formats: idTracker can analyze videos in the formats that Matlac can read. And it turns out that Matlab can read many formats in Windows (and I think also in Mac), but not in Linux. It does read some formats in Linux, only very few.

[Alfonso Pérez Escudero]

Update:

Thanks to Antonio Fonseca we have a new version of idTracker, which is compatible with newer versions of Matlab. And thanks to Daniel Calovi, this version is also more compatible with Mac and Linux. It's not thoroughly tested, but you can find it here:

https://github.com/idTracker/idTracker/tree/Beta