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Choosing between 4 random videos

asmarquis — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:03:49 +0000

I’m a total newbie to max/msp and I am getting totally overwhelmed with all the information I don’t even know where to start. I would like to make a patch that will select 1 video at random out of 4 different videos, then select another video once the first is played until all 4 videos have been played without any repeats.

I have tried to use the umenu to load my videos but it doesn’t seem to work. I’ve linked the selector tool and random tool and when I attach a number box to it it shows me that it is in fact randomly selecting between 0-3 but how do i like my videos to these?

Any links to tutorials or suggestions would be extremely helpful. I can’t seem to find anything on google and the forums are immense.

Re: Choosing between 4 random videos

laserpilot — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:59:11 +0000

instead of [random] you should use [urn] as it will only generate random numbers within the range you give it without repeats..then plug that into a number box and that number box into the left of umenu..the videos should be switching

to connect umenu to your jit.qt.movie you’ll need to make an object that just says [prepend read] and plug that into jit.qt.movie ..after that you should be business

off the top of my head I can’t remember how to tell it to play the next video when one finishes, but i think it has to do with the ‘loop’ flag on jit.qt.movie that can decide when the movie ends..or you can do some fancy logic with telling it to select when the position of the movie equals the duration..maybe one of these nice guys will make a patch up for you

Re: Choosing between 4 random videos

asmarquis — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:43:42 +0000

Thanks pilot. I’l give it a shot