Stopping Audio Playback on [jit.playlist] object
This has been bugging me for a while...i'm not sure how to stop jit.playlist from playing back audio apparently attached to video clips. weirdly, it plays them out of my computer speakers even if other audio is coming out via my headphones (i think this possibly happens with MSwavetable sounds as well - it's fine when i'm using an interface but not when i've just got my headphones plugged in). Does anyone know how to stop these video clips playing back sound?
F.Y.I. this is particularly an issue with several of the built in videos that come with max, the man going 'om!', and the car crash test one, which has funny bouncy synth noises.
thanks very much!
Rob,
jit.movie and jit.playlist do not route the movie audio into Max, therefore they use system sound settings.
jit.movie~ routes the audio into Max.
You can control the volume of the sound by sending either object a "vol" message, such as "vol 0." to turn the sound down completely.
thank you so much, this is a revelation! :D
thanks!
wouldn't it be nice if this message was mentioned in the reference pane - or the manual - or the helpfile???
I really think its time for c74 to have another good long look at their documentation!
N
Sorry for the necro post but I agree with @Nye Parry that this information shouldbe mentionned in the documentation.
And I've some details to add for future people.
I am building a simple player which plays several movies (with sound) from a list one by one. I started by using a simple ji.playlist and a videoplane. I spent like 3 hours trying to understand how to send the sound to my soundcard and not to the PC speaker. I eventually found a solution but the sound was veeeeerry kind of saturated, especially with low frequencies. It's a bit better if I set the vol attribute lower, but for some movies with very low frequencies I have to set under 0.4 in order to avoid saturation. Which in turn lower the overall volume of course. Happened with different movies (that play well otherwise in VLC at 100% volume for example), and with different sound cards (Behringer FCA610 and Scarlett 6i6 gen2). Same issue with a simple jit.movie object.
I just found out that if I wanted a proper audio control and no weird saturation, I have to use jit.movie~. So now I have to build a plylist system by myself.
TL;DR seems like if you want to play video files with their sounds, the proper way is using jit.movie~.
Max 7 here with Windows 10.
I don't know if it was possible five and a half years ago, so this is for very recent users just like me.
With the jit.playlist object you can control the sound of video clips via the Inspector. Click on the Playlist, then open Inspector. Go to All an scroll to the bottom of the list, set Volume to 0, and done.
It also works by sending the message 'vol 0' to the playlist's inlet, and hit it when the patch is locked. Again, check Inspector for reference.