Ah, I responded too soon. Yeah, I agree... things can get cumbersome with *too many* software chains. Actually, the reason I went with VLC -> Jack -> Pd was that [oggcast~] and [mp3cast~] (or whatever they were called), worked but were unstable, so I could not rely on them. Ideally, I would have preferred objects and this points to a need for such an object.
> On Nov 22, 2024, at 12:18 PM, pd-list-requ...@lists.iem.at wrote: > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:06:50 +0100 > From: reduz...@gmail.com <mailto:reduz...@gmail.com> > Subject: [PD] Re: mp3 playback from URL > To: pd-list@lists.iem.at <mailto:pd-list@lists.iem.at> > Message-ID: <ccf3392c82eb7e0e20cff8cb0249f1ab9ad0b745.ca...@gmail.com > <mailto:ccf3392c82eb7e0e20cff8cb0249f1ab9ad0b745.ca...@gmail.com>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Hi Oliver > > On Fri, 2024-11-22 at 11:49 +0100, oliver wrote: >> >> I recently had good success with remote controlling VLC player from >> within PD. > > Thanks for the suggestion. That's actually where I came from. I used to > control MPlayer from Pd and I was really glad that I could do it all > purely within a Pd patch when [readanysf~] came along. Things were much > more cumbersome back then. Nowadays, with [command] this would work a > tad bit neater. > > It's definitely a fall-back option. However, I'd like to avoid it due > to the increased complexity and the different software involved. I > still want to process audio in Pd, so I have to make sure to route > vlc/mpv audio output to Pd through JACK, which requires to give each > JACK client (mpv/vlc and Pd) a unique name so that persistent routing > works (consider having many such setups in parallel). Also, I'd like to > avoid JACK all together so that a Pd hiccup does not cause an audible > drop-out. My radios run Pd with '-nosound -nomidi -nogui' and thus the > only buffering is happening in [mp3cast~]. Which again means there are > practically no drop-outs at all. The patch can even do tasks like > rendering text-to-speech voice with [flite~] without any side-effects. > > Cheers, > Roman -------- Dan Wilcox danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/> robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/>
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