Max7: AVF vs Quicktime = AVF wins, but no spigot functionality?

export the audio track as a separate file, load with sfplay~ (or other buffer based player), and sync the jit.movie playback with the sync out of sfplay.

I never use spigot~ and instead do what Rob suggests. Here is a version using groove~ I had laying around, but you could easily patch together an sfplay~ version as well:

thanks! i'll give that a try

i tried making a frankenstein patch with what Ben posted but every video I've tried to load gives me a 'buffer~ ___.mov can't open' error in the max window. tried a few different videos with different codecs, no luck

I totally missed the first part of the what the original poster said above. So without spigot~, there is no way in with jitter/maxmsp to use the audio attached to an existing video file? My idea is still workable this way, I'll just have to export audio from all my video files.

edit: I'm having trouble figuring out where to load the audio file that corresponds to the video file in this groove~ example patch

in ben's example patch, you don't actually need to separate the audio file from the video file. it instead uses the read notification from jit.movie to get the movie file properties, and properly format an "import" message to buffer~ to import the audio from the movie file. this works great if your audio file can fit in to memory.

hm ok, makes a little bit more sense now. What's strange is that I exported several of the movies to the exact same type as 'blading.mov' in the media folder. Photo JPEG with uncompressed audio, and the first time I loaded one of them instead of 'blading.move' in Ben's example patch it worked great, but every subsequent time i've tried to load any of my own videos it says "buffer~ cannot load" and lists the name of my movie file. Any ideas? Maybe it has something to do with a setting on the codec I can't see in the 'get info' tab on the mac finder. I guess i'm stumped on why it would work at first but even after restarting my computer none of my own videos work anymore. So what happens now is the 'blading.mov' sound track stays in the buffer, but my new video will actually play (just not my audio).

update: ok I was testing this patch out on Max 6.1 (stupid me), now testing it on Max7. Works on my video files now and plays back my audio. thanks guys! Now i just have to figure out how to incorporate this whole sync/feedback setup with my original patch which lets me skip to predetermined points in the video timeline with midi
is there a guideline or faq about which video codecs work in AVF?

the recommended codecs for AVF are H264, Photo-Jpeg, Prores 422, and Prores 4444

Hi,

I'm also very interested in getting this working but couldn't get the patch Ben posted above to work. I get the same error message as Awepittance:

buffer~: blading.mov: can't open

I opened Max 7 in 32 bit and it worked, but the goal of this thread is to be able to do it in 64 bit—which is what I also need!
My current Max version is 7.0.3, the latest available is 7.0.4.
I looked at the release notes for all 7 versions (0.1-0.4) and all four say "Import features for buffer~ are limited" under 64 bit limitations.

However, it looks like it worked for some of you guys, which version were you using?

Any other ideas?

Help appreciated!
Thanks!

Federico