[PD-dev] yet another video processing external...

[Tom Schouten]

hi mick,

that's exactly what i had in mind. i'd like to have a look at your 
external.

tom


> Hi,
>
> Saw this thread and remembered that I have an abstraction which does 
> this.
>
> The way I organised it, the audio for the file was given the same name 
> as the
> video file (file1.avi = file1.avi.wav), and the message was passed 
> onto the
> 'read' message (using list2symbol), loaded the file into the array(used
> -maxsize so array wouldn't truncate the file), calculated the total 
> number of
> samples, divided it by 44.1 (or whatever the sample rate was) and then 
> by the
> total number of frames in the video file. Then your frame number can 
> be used
> to control video and audio whilst maintaining perfect sync. I had to 
> adjust
> the start frame so that the delay in frame display could be factored 
> out - the
> number of frames depends on the codec.
>
> If you're interested in seeing it (it's a bit messy) i'll post it.
>
> hope this is of interest to you.
>
> Mick