I want to play .aif file located in the pd/docs/sound directory in my progam files (PC)

So I plugged this in:

[open open C:/ProgramFiles/pd/doc/sound/clap.aif]
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[readsf~]
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[dac~]

And it comes up with "error: dsp: C:/ProgramFiles/pd/doc/sound/clap.aif: No such file or directory"

Is there a certain way of specifying the directory, or have I got the patch completely wrong?

Apologies for the complete freshness of my question.

@konglom said:

do someone knows a good knowledge resource about puredata in german language?

I don't know of any, but if none exist, perhaps one should be created. Language barriers shouldn't be a barrier to using software! There is the German wiki, but there doesn't seem to be much on it as of yet. This page and this one list Pd forums and documentation in a variety of languages in case you're fluent in any others, but none auf Deutsch. There seem to be plenty of German speakers using Pd though, so maybe if you start a thread here or e-mail the Pd list, you could find some documentation, or drum up support for a Pd forum in German, or get more people to edit the German Pd wiki.

and in bad pidgin German:
Ich kenne keine Seite, aber wenn es keine gibt, soll eine vielleicht geschaffen werden. Die Sprachbarrieren sollen keine Barrieren für den Gebrauch von Software sein! Es gibt das Wiki auf Deutsch, aber es scheint, es gibt noch nicht so viel darauf. Diese Seite und diese listen Foren und Dokumentationen auf einigen Sprachen, wenn du gewandt in diesen Sprachen bist, aber nichts auf Deutsch. Aber es scheint, dass es viele deutschsprechende Pd-Benutzer gibt, und dafür vielleicht, wenn du einen Thread hier erstellst, oder dem Pd-List einen E-Mail sendest, kannst du etwas für Dokumentation finden, oder Unterstützung für ein Forum auf Deutsch zusammentrommeln, oder mehr Leute das Wiki zu bearbeiten bewegen.

Hi everyone! It´s me again with more newb troubles

After resolve my troubles with GEM, all was fine. The video and pix_texture work fine.

Recently, I started to take video with my cell phone and save it in .3gp file format. When I tried to convert the files, I have to download the necesary códecs to convert in .avi and work it with GEM. And the result was:

(see the image attached)

I try many ways to fix this (saving the file with many parameters), but it´s dificult because I unknown the real trouble here.
This image was saved without compresion (uncompressed). When I work with an AVI compressed file, the video appears completly, but "dissolves it" when I try to manipulate the frame.

The same video was played in Windows Media Player and work fine.

Can you help me? I work with Windows Vista and Pd 0.41-4 (non extended); GEM 0.90. The video from the picture above was AVI uncompressed.

Thank you for your time. Nice day

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/Error-video.jpg

I have used MAX a little and just downloaded PD.
Why can't I get it to find and play my sound files?

-Under preferences I set the path to Users/Shared/PD/ This is where I put all the .aif files I wanted to use as well as patches.
-In the patch I tried [open Users/Shared/PD/file.aif] and [open ../file.aif] connected to the readsf~ object. Neither of those ways worked.

Whenever I try to open I get 'error: dsp: No such file or directory'
I'm using version 0.40-2 on OSX 10.4.8

Pretty basic thing I need to get started.
Thanks.

Some work-in-progress in Pd+Gem

http://www.archive.org/download/ClaudiusMaximus_-_d0-_d1-_d2-_d3-_d4__2007-03-12_/ClaudiusMaximus_-_d0-_d1-_d2-_d3-_d4__2007-03-12_Day_After_Edit_.avi
http://www.archive.org/download/ClaudiusMaximus_-_d0-_d1-_d2-_d3-_d4__2007-03-12_/ClaudiusMaximus_-_d0-_d1-_d2-_d3-_d4__2007-03-12_Evening_After_Edit_.avi

A little over 100MB each. Other download formats are available here:

http://www.archive.org/details/ClaudiusMaximus_-_d0-_d1-_d2-_d3-_d4__2007-03-12_

Hi, anyone know like how to write file names right, like directories? Like for example: Macintosh HD/Users/name/folder/file name.aif ? If this were the second argument of an open message. I could see how the spaces could be issues for PD. Furthermore, if anyone has the jist of how to specify in a patch or part of a patch, which directory or folder to save a file by simply writing the filename in a message such as "file name.aif" (instead of writing the whole directory name like Macintosh HD/Users/name/folder/file name.aif) that would be an additional bonus. I have either saved files or opened them or both by just writing the file name before but I wondered how to like choose which file they are appended with. Answers to the above 1st question and second would both be beneficial. Gracias

Hello, my first post on this forum, wich i've found rather helpful recently, but not registered until now!

Anyway, im making this patch where i'm supposed to have a video influence sound in some way, i've got some ideas as how to do this, BUT the specific video file i am supposed to use won't work! I am using a PC with windows xp, and the file in question is an .avi file. The weird thing is that all the movie files in the example patches work, being .mov, mpg and .avi, just my specific .avi file won't work. Have searched the forum allready to try to find if there were some previous posts about this, but didnt have too much luck...

Anyone got any ideas as to what might be the case here? I suspect it might be a codec issue but have no idea, spoke to my teacher(this assignment is for an home exam), and he said it worked on his windows. Any help greatly apperciated. cheers!

ok, this is a little off topic but...

I have some AVI files i need to play using pd. I am using a mac with OSX so I can't open AVI's on it... What I really need is something to convert .avi too .mov.

Any ideas anyone?
Or even another lib that might play divx avi's on OSX?

Thanks for reading,
d

I'm updating my website currently - so this link is broken:

http://cm.socialgeek.com/avs.html

The new permanent link is:

[url=http://cm.socialgeek.com/index.php?page=coding/winamp-avs/about ]http://cm.socialgeek.com/index.php?page=coding/winamp-avs/about

(I tried editing my post, but no joy)

[url=http://cm.socialgeek.com/avs.html ]http://cm.socialgeek.com/avs.html

Some nice equations with pictures., implemented in Winamp 2.81's AVS system. Mostly iterative equations, like F(x,y)->(x2,y2), repeat over and over to get more points (feedback). Not curves, individual points jump about a lot, but the envelope (attractor) of the points forms a pattern.

Gridlflow is fun for visual feefback loops, check out the "goop" examples on http://gridflow.ca or really pretty much any of the gridflow examples, they all use maths to make cool pictures..


x = A sin ( t )
y = B cos ( t )

is an ellipse, but try

x = sin ( A t )
y = cos ( B t )

too, start with small integer values for A and B and see what happens when you change them...