[PD] Make a grid for choosing videos. How

[derek holzer]

Hi IOhannes,

IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> a solution for you would be: generate thumbnails from your videos via an 
> off-pd script (choose your favourite tool)
> use one of the tcl/tk image-loading externals (don't ask me for a 
> specific library; i don't know it, but most likely there are several of 
> them (iemgui being one of them; no idea where to get a compiled version 
> for osx (and whether it works on osx at all))) to load the thumbnails 
> into your patch; depending on the object it might react on clicks or you 
> have to put a [bng] below it...
> 
> of course this is rather non-dynamic.

It could be dynamic if you used [shell] to call "your favorite tool" to 
generate a thumbnail and then load it with toxy or whatever.

Can anyone recommend a Linux/Unix/OSX script for a "favorite tool" that 
could dynamically generate thumbnails?

best,
d.

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