milc

with help of this forum, I made a patch that reads randomly choosen qt movies from a folder. and now a bigger obstacle....

Is there a way to start a qt movie file at randomly choosen starting point and duration? Normally, everytime [jit.qt movie] reads a qt movie, it starts from the beginning. But I want that it starts from the middle, or from the end, or from the frame 189....etc.

I've looked up help and ref. but I only found loop start point option but not the normal playback, and it is difficult for a newbie to manipulate with [getduration(....I've tried to feedback duration to anywhere else but I mess up all.

My movie files have all different durations (15 sec to 3 min)and that makes things even more difficult!

I tried random duration by feed metro object random time, but I think that's very poor way to do it. it immediately seems like someone try to imitate randomness of the world and it's so ugly...

and sorry for the spaghetti patch, for now, I do not see very well what outlet goes to which inlet when its segmented cords...

My movie files have all different durations (15 sec to 3 min)and that makes things even more difficult! 

and sorry for the spaghetti patch, for now, I do not see very well what outlet goes to which inlet when its segmented cords...


newbieee-to-start-quicktime-movie-at-random-position

there are a lot of messages jit.qt.movie understands. you might want

to see autostart $1, getduration, getfps, gettimescale, frame $1, and

there are a lot of messages jit.qt.movie understands.  you might want
to see autostart $1, getduration, getfps, gettimescale, frame $1, and
time $1.


what it does exactly? I sent the message and it doesn't seem to do anything...

I do not understand with a explanation in ref.

what does "autostart" means?
what it does exactly? I sent the message and it doesn't seem to do anything...
I do not understand with a explanation in ref.


autostart means that when this is set to 1 (default) the movie will 

start playing automatically after it's read.

If you send the message "autostart 0" or add "@autostart 0" in the 

jit.qt.movie object, the movie will not play untill you send the 

> what it does exactly? I sent the message and it doesn't seem to do 

> I do not understand with a explanation in ref.

autostart means that when this is set to 1 (default) the movie will  
start playing automatically after it's read.
If you send the message "autostart 0" or add "@autostart 0" in the  
jit.qt.movie object, the movie will not play untill you send the  
message "start"

>
> what does "autostart" means?
> what it does exactly? I sent the message and it doesn't seem to do  
> anything...
> I do not understand with a explanation in ref.
>


Newbieee--To Start quicktime movie at random position