Hi all,
I know I've asked that question before and got a negative answer but I'm wondering if anyone has thought of making a CD extern... I'm prepearing for a theatre show and it would be helpful to control my CD-ROM with pd. If anyone has written anything like that I'll be glad to beta-test it for you.
Thanks.
..... .... ...... Michal Seta ...... ..... ....
Yes, seems to be a need for it. Maybe someday someone (me) will come up with a object like that. Do you have have deadline ?
The cdparanoia package is curently rewritten and an API is added. If that can be used, it should be fairly easy ... but that will be a Linux only object then.
Guenter
-----Original Message----- From: Michal Seta [mailto:mis@music.mcgill.ca] Sent: Sunday, April 18, 1999 4:35 PM To: pd-list@iem.mhsg.ac.at Subject: CD-ROM
Hi all,
I know I've asked that question before and got a negative answer but I'm wondering if anyone has thought of making a CD extern... I'm prepearing for a theatre show and it would be helpful to control my CD-ROM with pd. If anyone has written anything like that I'll be glad to beta-test it for you.
Thanks.
..... .... ...... Michal Seta ...... ..... ....
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Guenter Geiger wrote:
| |Yes, seems to be a need for it. |Maybe someday someone (me) will come up with a object like that. |Do you have have deadline ? |
It'd be great tyo have an object like this...
I'm starting to work with the theatre as of Wednesday (April 20) and the play opens sometime in the middle of may. So it's getting a little tight. I would probably need CD-ROM with pd at the beginning of may...
I have already considered alternative ways of dealing with the problem (such as playing sound files rather than audio CD).
I also have a little concern... PD seems to be still consuming a lot CPU when run in 44100 Hz mode (-ada). This is still Linux PD. I've been using it for some simple sound file playback in a Theatre show I'm in right now but I'm playing files sampled at 22050 and pd with -r 22050. On my machine pd runs in the default mode consuming about 37-49% of CPU, it has priority 10-19 (according to "top"). And that's just the pd app with audio on and no patch loaded. My simple sound file playback patch was running at about the same CPU consumption...
The system is again Pentium MMX 233, RedHat 5.2, Yamaha sound card (OPL variety) with OSS (commercial).
And I don't even want to look at the source code. It'd give me a headache :)
Thanks.
..... .... ...... Michal Seta ...... ..... ....
-----Original Message----- From: Michal Seta [mailto:mis@music.mcgill.ca] It'd be great tyo have an object like this...
I'm starting to work with the theatre as of Wednesday (April 20) and the play opens sometime in the middle of may. So it's getting a little tight.
Mhmm, yes rather.
I would probably need CD-ROM with pd at the beginning of may...
I have already considered alternative ways of dealing with the problem (such as playing sound files rather than audio CD).
If you have enough space for them, itŽs easier.
I also have a little concern... PD seems to be still consuming a lot CPU when run in 44100 Hz mode (-ada).
Only in ADA mode, right ? As always, standard answer no. 1, a driver problem.
Which version of pd do you use ? Have all versions the same problem ?
After taking a look at Millers Linux version (0.25TEST4) (shame on me I havnŽt done yet ..), I will try to add profiling, and some basic blocking non-blocking switches to the makefile. The problem is, unless I donŽt have the card, I canŽt do anything about it, because on other card/driver combinations it works.
But, hey I guess Miller has the same card, so you could probably team up :)
And I don't even want to look at the source code. It'd give me a headache :)
Luckily (?), you canŽt look at the source of OSS/commercial :)
Guenter
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Guenter Geiger wrote:
| |> I also have a little concern... PD seems to be still |> consuming a lot CPU |> when run in 44100 Hz mode (-ada). | |Only in ADA mode, right ?
yep.
|As always, standard answer no. 1, a driver problem. | |Which version of pd do you use ? Have all versions the same problem ?
I'm using 0.24. And yes I always had this problem. However, I experience the same problem on a different machine (still linux) with an OPTi sound card (which supposedly is 100% compatible with SoundBlaster... but they all are, aren't they...)
| |But, hey I guess Miller has the same card, so you could probably team up :)
Maybe I will try that one soon. I think that Miller got Alsa running with this card. I haven't attempted to retry the installation.
Miller: any insight?
| |> And I don't even want to look at the source code. It'd give |> me a headache |> :) | |Luckily (?), you can�t look at the source of OSS/commercial :) | |
I meant pd code :) I assumed maybe there was something wring with that... whatever the case, I just don't want to look at codes :)
Thanks.
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