Hi guys,

I would like to make a simple patch which takes a bunch of videos from the same folder and plays it one after each other. when the first ends, starts the 2nd and till the end of folder then starts from the first. I am trying to use the playlist object but without any success.

Could anyone of you give me a direction, where to go? how to start? playing one video with a loop on the second screen is already solved just do not know how to load the next videos in order.

Thanks a lot in advance:

Popesz

I made this simple abstraction a while ago, it's almost untested but it shoud work as a starting point. The abstraction loads files from a folder then output one filename for each bang recieved on the left inlet. Help file and example with gem attached. Needs pd-extended.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/playlist.gt.zip

What is your problem with the playlist object?

Guido,
thanks for your patch, i am examining it right now.

Excalibur,
I thought it could define the folder where my videos are and take the files from there to GEM. Maybe a simple [open] object solves the problem. Will come back soon with a result or with an other question.
Thanks a lot for you guys!

Popesz

Hi guys,

I am back with some questions again.
Still working on this playlist player thing.
Already managed to create a nice one where if you have 1.avi, 2.avi, 3.avi with 1.wav, 2.wav etc in the same folder, it plays in a loop after each oter. there is a nice subpatch which counts how many files we have to play, but is is already too much detail, hehe.
Now my problem is that I can not fit the fullscreen window to the second HD screen. It is always lower than the top of the screen. I am on Mac OS X and looks like any time I rearrange the height of the second screen, the gem window jumps to the right space to fill out the screen, but when I restart the rendering, it is again lower. Does anyone have an idea how to fix it?

The 1st screen is a 1440x900 that is why the [offset 1440 0(

Thanks in advance for your advices.

Cheers:

Popesz

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

Have you tried with a [offset 1440 -50( message? It works fine on my MacBook Pro. Also remember that you can put all the [gemwin] messages in a single message. This will help to set the order in which the messages are sent, I mean something like [border 0, dimen 1920 1080, offset 1440 -50, create, 1(

Talking about [fullscreen(, I guess it's just an alternative to both [offset( and [dimen( so it's not really necessary. Anyway I've read somewhere that [fullscreen( could have arguments — maybe [fullscreen 2( will work for the second display?

Guido,

thanks for your prompt help, it works for me too. Just curios why it is like this that y=-50 solves the whole problem. From the other hand thanks for the tip too to put all the messages into one line, makes a bit simpler.

Cheers:

Popesz