[linux-audio-user] audio/video player for theatre use anyone?

Thomas Vecchione seablaede at gmail.com
Fri Mar 2 23:11:56 EST 2007


>>
> 
> I've had good experience using PD to run theatre sound. I haven't done
> any performances where I also used video(I've usually used my crappy
> old laptop) but i had the whole show programmed to respond to my
> Behringer control surface, so the operator didn't even need the
> computer to be open to run the show. It had a combination of chased
> cue sequences and more manual controls. It was kind of hacked together
> though, so I've been meaning to put together a more systematic and
> extensible system for doing just this. Once I get it together I'll put
> an announcement out. 


In case you werent aware of this, the reason I was fairly sure you could 
do it in Pd, was because someone already did it in Max/MSP.  Cricket is 
a very popular theater sound playback software written in Max/MSP, and 
while I am not out to duplicate an interface, that one is pretty decent 
for examples of functionality.

Unfortuantly it is not open source, though I have not contacted the 
author about seeing if it might run in Pd, but the GUI I am fairly sure 
would not unfortunatly, which would be a limiting factor of course.

But at any rate, the thing is, in my ideal situation something using 
Ardour would be what I would want, it is just as I mentioned, I don't 
think at this point it is the best idea.

          Seablade



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