You can get/observe clip properties like 'length' and 'playing_position'.

For more details see documentation.

https://cycling74.com/docs/max5/refpages/m4l-ref/m4l_live_object_model.html

thanks.. I've already been able to do that for length with the code below.. I was just you kinda waiting for an excusive to start with M4L LOM, and now that I have some ideas in mind, I have the perfect reason to start dealing with it.

by now, I am tracking playing position of the clip with a get (using the live object) doing something like this

the problem is that I don't actually want to use the metro + get method.. what I want to do is to observe the whole thing.. the reason why prefer to do this with observe, is that I will be saving a small amount of cpu usage.. the problem is that I am still very in the beggining with all of this (not maxmsp, but m4l lom/api).. can't you guys give me an hint of how I can use live observe to do this thing properly? by now I have done this like that.. but it's not working.. I know that it has something to do with the way as I am adressing playing_position method.. so if you can help it would be nice

Try this.

thanks broc