Lee Revell wrote: > On 3/2/07, Thomas Vecchione <seablaede@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> As of right now there is no good prebuilt software for audio in theater >> on linux. I am slowly working my way through APIs to start working on >> one, but have been for some time so don't hold your breath;) I don't >> plan on doing anything for video though, sorry. >> > > Can't you extend an existing app rather than starting a new project? > I know that Ardour has been used for sound installations, how are the > requirements of a theater different? i've once hacked somme code to "sequence" jack-transport. ie. define breakpoints, do jumps, but failed abysmally. well it works - kind of. (jack is so cool) @Joern: is there a deadline you need to meet (get sth quick with mplayer) or is there time for proper open-source devel? video-jack might be worth waiting for! maybe the ardour punch-in/out and location marker concept can be extended in a suitable way.. - depending on the level of interaction during the show one might want to use pure-data. How do you prepare the show? do you edit audio/video or only arrange the live performance automation? I guess you want to have a simple video-player or -timeline to preview and define sync points in the video source first. Then assign those clips to different triggers, events or sequence some of them. A theater installation might need more than one audio-transport! eg. some audio keeps running continuously, some audio is sync to video, some extra sound-effects,. I not sure if ardour is suited for that. To complicate it even more there's qlc.sf.net (the QT light controller - i've never used it)- it can be controlled by Midi ! dunno about OSC or jack-transport. sure sth that will come in handy for live theater! but that would place an ardour-midi-light-automations-track on the feature request list :-) seriously, let's postpone that! #robin
