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I'm planning an install in a cancer treatment center using a single projector mapped to a slightly curved, twisted screen. I'm totally comfortable with the mapping part of the project but trying to come up with a solution for handling media to MadMapper that is simple enough that it can be edited by a non technical admin or nurse at the clinic. Is there a way I'm missing in MadMapper itself to make a playlist out of the Movies? If not is there an extremely simple application that can ship media to MadMapper via Syphon? Ideally, just a bin they can drop a video in, maybe change the order, and very little else.

Hi there,

I think using VDMX5 and "locking out" some of the windows they don't need...... This cam then send a SYPHON output to MADMAPPER

One simple MEDIA BIN might suffice, and they can drag new clips in, delete, rearrange etc

A simple STEP SEQUENCER can trigger OSC or MIDI internally to run the sequence

Worth a look

Ta

PHIL

I ended up doing it in Quartz Composer. Someone on vjforums gave me the directory scanner widget needed to make it happen. There's just a folder on the desktop, drop in any file that can be played in quicktime and it gets added right onto a stack piped out via syphon. Works out perfectly!

can you post that directory ???

This QC workaround sounds very very useful !!

If possible, could you post the link to it ??

Many thanks

PHIL

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3545315/playlistPlayer.qtz

Credit to bernnielomax on VJForums

Now - sorry to be a "QC Newbie" but how do I go about integrating this into Madmapper

All help gladly appreciated

PHIL

Open the playlistplayer.qtz, click on the directory scanner widget. Open the parameters tab and enter your media directory. You should see your media in a preview window. If for some reason you don't click the Viewer menu and make sure it's set to Run. In MadMapper select Quartz Composer in the Syphon inputs. And that's that. Once it's running there's no playlist to edit, it just loops everything in that directory. Perfect for low maintenance digital signage.

That's great !!!!

Me being silly and forgetting to actually put the folder in the directory path !

Works a treat

A really big thanks to all who created this

Thanks again

Phil

In the new MadMapper 1.4.x beta you can edit Quartz Composer variables. Here's a version of the bernnielomax playlistPlayer.qtz that doesn't use Syphon. You can load the QC file straight in to MadMapper and set your file path in the files QC settings (click the qc-file and an input field called "Movie dir" will show up): https://dl.dropbox.com/u/6958025/playli ... Mapper.qtz. I often use the Terminal to get the correct file or folder path. I just drop my movie folder into the Terminal window and it will give me the full path. Just make sure to remove the back slash (\) that it will add if you have spaces in your folder name.

I updated the playlist player for MadMapper to also include these controls: play/stop, rewind movie and restart playlist. Works in the 1.4.x beta. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/6958025/playli ... Mapper.qtz. The file works in VDMX too (but maybe there's a simpler way to solve this within VDMX, I'm not sure).

Handy! Thanks Midi Thief.

I was looking for the same thing for an installation, and eventually wrote a simple max patcher to send videos from a folder via syphon. I know many applications do that, but this one is as simple as it gets...
Just place the patcher in a folder in which you create a subfolder named VIDEOS (case sensitive).
The patcher will create a menu with all the videos in the VIDEOS folder

2 options to play them : playlist (one after another, in alphabetical order) or random (modified random that will not pick twice the same video in a row).
You can also choose to modify output resolution (deforming image)
Handles the video sound
You need to have syphon for max installed.
In case someone find it usefull.