[PD] an easy way to replay a Pd-session (gui)

[Chris McCormick]

On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 10:59:04AM +0100, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> i am looking for a simple and efficient way to record a Pd-session and 
> replay it later.
> at this early stage i am only interested in replaying the gui part, so 
> basically i want to create a screencast, but without recording a movie.
> 
> the idea is, to just capture the network traffic between pd and pd-gui 
> and later feed the traffic pd->gui traffic into a standalone pd-gui.
> 
> 
> i am currently experimenting a bit with pcap files (since packet 
> sniffers do not require any intervention on the Pd side), but of course 
> the result is quite verbose and i am not really interested in the tcp/ip 
> handshake between pd and pd-gui.
> all the available pcap replay tools i found (e.g. tcpreplay) are really 
> tools for testing network infrastructure rather than replaying 
> client/server communication.
> 
> my self written tools suffer from big timing issues...

Hi IOhannes,

You will almost certainly not like this solution, but you can use my
[s-totalrecall] and [s-tr-node] abstractions to record a full session of
knob-twiddling to play back later. I use this to record my live sets and
then replay them later, off-stage.

Chris.

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