On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 08:07:17 +0200 J?rgen Sch?neberg <jschoeni@xxxxxxx> wrote: > hej! > > I 'm looking for a linux software to play soundfiles controlled by > a footswitch on the serial port. (just possible to control start, rewind, > stop) . > > Usually I'm using jack/ardour but haven't seen the possibility to use a > footswitch to control the software. > > Even a howto for using a footswitch as an input device for a perl script would > be very helpful. > > Any ideas? I don't have a howto, but some thoughts: reading the serial port is probably provided by the /dev/ttyS* device files.. read up on the serial tty driver in linux. Then i suppose you can use std file processing in perl [i dont use perl, but i heard it's rather complete :)]. The last thing you need is a file player which can be remote controlled. Either just launch aplay processes from the perl script, or use xmms remote controlling for example.. Regards, Florian Schmidt -- Palimm Palimm! Sounds/Ware: http://affenbande.org/~tapas/
