Resume video playback

mattgolsen's picture

I'm having a tough time figuring out how to pull this particular feature off, so I'm going to try querying the hive mind.

SoI have multiple QC installations running some fairly simple XML patches I've built. I've setup video playback on these as well, which was fairly easy but the problem I'm running into is how to resume playback if the app crashes (it's not the most stable hardware, I'm using launchd to keep it running), and start either where it left off, or at the same time stamp as the other displays.

I've got a fairly rudimentary controller composition using Vade's totally sweet video plugin and OSC, so I imagine I could just read the current playback time from there... but I'm just not sure how initiate all of this.

cwright's picture
Re: Resume video playback

you'll need to calculate your timing stuff as time-invariant, or rig some kind of network synchronization system.

time-invariant is probably easiest (so then all you need to deal with is keep the clocks synchronized) -- use the System Time patch.