Hi all,

I'm looking for help with a problem I'm having. I'm using PD & GEM on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)

I'm using a playstation controller (mapped with HID external) to trigger pre-produced digital movies with GEM. This all works fine except for one thing.

I want it so that when you switch between movies, they pause - so that when you go back to them they are in the same place as before.

At the moment, every time you open a movie to play, they go back to the beginning which is really frustrating me! I wouldn't mind, if the pause thing wasn't possible, if the movies just carried on looping in the background so that when you go back to them they are in a different place...I just don't want them to start over every time!

Please help...somebody!lol!

Jonathan

P.s. I've attatched my ongoing patch for inspection!

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/gamepad_input.pd

I've just started using pure data. I'm using PD & gem on MAC OSX tiger 10.3.9

All I'm trying to do at the moment is open a quicktime video or final cut pro video file but I can only get the sound.

I need to know how to get gem to project my quicktime video onto a single rectangle so that I can set up a split screen. I'm intending to also use another live video feed in gem at the same time.

Also when I use the auto $1 message it says argument out of range. What exactly is an argument?!

any help whatsoever would be much appreciated.

The best place to ask a question like this is on the PD mailing list, they have been very helpful with my first forays into PD and GEM.

http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo

samkilldata, did you try the examples in the documentation? there are examples there of video on rectangles to do what you want.

not sure about final cut pro format support though.

jonathanG....been a while since i used GEM, and i'm more into audio, but is there some sort of -skip nframes message you can send to re-open them where they have left off?

ah...just had a look at your patch....not sure if the mailing list has already given you an answer, but you actually have 2 ways of playing films there.

(A) auto $1
(B) the right inlet of [pix_movie], which is connected to a [counter]

you have to go through the right inlet if you want manual control.

...see what you can find about counting frames with a [metro] object, and go from there. if you get really stuck, someone can make the patch for you, but you can figure it out i reckon.

Hi jonathan,

as hardoff wrote, you just add a counter to the right inlet, for instance with a counter at a 40 tempo, which allows you to play a video @25fps (if in PAL format).

Just stop the counter without resetting it, and start it again once the video should be turned back on!

That's it!