Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-28 Thread Kelvin Lawson
How "expensive" is it just to start from byte 0 of the CDG instructions and run every command in order internally up to the current seek time, then blit the result? I had been assuming that scaling/drawing the output itself is what took time, and that on the internal drawing surface it was nearly

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-28 Thread William Ferrell
On 11/28/05, Kelvin Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think that I've never *ever* seen a commercial CDG that scrolls. > > > > Ever. > > > > KBS will create them, and I should have that in a week or two. But I > > wouldn't worry *too* much about it. > > I've got one from "Doctor Music", that

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-28 Thread Kelvin Lawson
I think that I've never *ever* seen a commercial CDG that scrolls. Ever. KBS will create them, and I should have that in a week or two. But I wouldn't worry *too* much about it. I've got one from "Doctor Music", that I used for testing the scrolling code. Can't recall if I've seen it on any

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-28 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 07:37:44PM +, Kelvin Lawson wrote: > > I'm actually keen to implement an internal MP3/OGG/WAV player anyway; we > > need that to be able to do pitch shifting and time munging, and then we > > get seeking (coding the CDG seeking part will be fun ;). > > Yeah, I'm not d

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-28 Thread Kelvin Lawson
I'm actually keen to implement an internal MP3/OGG/WAV player anyway; we need that to be able to do pitch shifting and time munging, and then we get seeking (coding the CDG seeking part will be fun ;). Yeah, I'm not decided on the best technique for seeking. I think we need to go back to the l

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-28 Thread Kelvin Lawson
Don't forget FLAC and MPEG (being able to rip CD-V's would be cool, too, and, for that matter, the dedicated could rip LaserDiscs with a capture card. I think MPEG playback is done elsewhere (I could be wrong and I haven't checked) but I believe it's already supported. FLAC is just a matter of a

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-27 Thread William Ferrell
On 11/27/05, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 02:29:11PM -0700, William Ferrell wrote: > >I'm actually keen to implement an internal MP3/OGG/WAV player > >anyway; we need that to be able to do pitch shifting and time > >munging, and then we get seekin

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-27 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 02:29:11PM -0700, William Ferrell wrote: >Doesn't the "Linux Standard Base" (or whatever the [EMAIL PROTECTED] > it's called) >provide some standard for where apps go? PyKaraoke and cdgtools are >small enough that they can reasonably just live in /usr/bin.

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-27 Thread William Ferrell
On 11/26/05, Christopher A. Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Since everything in 0.4 is self-contained already, if you keep thecurrent files in their own folder, it should work. As a first step, Iwould suggest placing what would be the unzipped files in somethinglike /usr/local/PyKaraoke and cre

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-27 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 02:19:57PM -0700, William Ferrell wrote: > For sufficiently large values of "derivatives". > >Hehehehe yeah :) "RPM-based distributions". >Behold this spiffy magic: >#!/usr/bin/env python >As far as I know, every distro sets up "env" to spew the

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-27 Thread William Ferrell
On 11/26/05, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 02:54:56PM -0700, William Ferrell wrote:>Definitely. Red Hat and derivatives are still the prevalent distros.For sufficiently large values of "derivatives". Hehehehe yeah :) >It  *should*  [knocks  wood]  be a

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-26 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 17:54 -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 02:54:56PM -0700, William Ferrell wrote: > >Definitely. Red Hat and derivatives are still the prevalent distros. > > For sufficiently large values of "derivatives". > > >It *should* [knocks wood] be a

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-26 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 14:50 -0700, William Ferrell wrote: On 11/26/05, Christopher A. Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I run a mobile DJ/KJ service in Denver and have had a couple of e-mail exchanges with Kelvin, which has led me to this list. I'v

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-26 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 02:54:56PM -0700, William Ferrell wrote: >Definitely. Red Hat and derivatives are still the prevalent distros. For sufficiently large values of "derivatives". >It *should* [knocks wood] be a matter of just copying the programs >themselves (all the .py f

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-26 Thread Kelvin Lawson
I must sheepishly admit I run Ubuntu on my notebooks (and have two hardware platforms now available for testing -- x86 and amd64) so I should probably be doing something to help package this thing up, too :) Kelvin, consider me a guinea pig for packages (and for packaging the amd64 version, eve

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-26 Thread Kelvin Lawson
It *should* [knocks wood] be a matter of just copying the programs themselves (all the .py files) to /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin, and dropping the modules used into /usr/lib/python2.[0-4]/site-packages ... but it could still get interesting anyway :) Sounds easy enough. I guess we would remove

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-26 Thread William Ferrell
On 11/26/05, Kelvin Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Right now, I'm working on what I can do to help sponsor PyKaraoke and>>CDG Tools in one of the Fedora Core repositories. That means creating an>>RPM and sponsoring the package. I'm working on both. That said, I'm not >>exactly an expert on RPM

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-26 Thread William Ferrell
On 11/26/05, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It turns out that Will, in Ft Collins (and after the holidays, I hopeI've gotten his name right :-) thinks much the way I do about in-show usability, *and* *is* a coder.  :-) Yup, got the name just fine :) > Any ideas would be appreciated. Lo

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-26 Thread William Ferrell
On 11/26/05, Christopher A. Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I run a mobile DJ/KJ service in Denver and have had a couple of e-mailexchanges with Kelvin, which has led me to this list.I've gone through the archives and see there's someone also in Ft.Collins - we should talk sometime. :) Hey, my

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-26 Thread Kelvin Lawson
Right now, I'm working on what I can do to help sponsor PyKaraoke and CDG Tools in one of the Fedora Core repositories. That means creating an RPM and sponsoring the package. I'm working on both. That said, I'm not exactly an expert on RPM packaging, but am willing to learn more. I'm hoping myse

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-26 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 10:03:45AM -0700, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > I run a mobile DJ/KJ service in Denver and have had a couple of e-mail > exchanges with Kelvin, which has led me to this list. Welcome aboard! > I've gone through the archives and see there's someone also in Ft. > Collins

[Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-26 Thread Christopher A. Williams
I run a mobile DJ/KJ service in Denver and have had a couple of e-mail exchanges with Kelvin, which has led me to this list. I've gone through the archives and see there's someone also in Ft. Collins - we should talk sometime. :) Right now, I'm working on what I can do to help sponsor PyKaraoke a