Re: mp3 playback from URL

Hi Oliver

On Fri, 2024-11-22 at 11:49 +0100, oliver wrote:
> 
> I recently had good success with remote controlling VLC player from 
> within PD. 

Thanks for the suggestion. That's actually where I came from. I used to
control MPlayer from Pd and I was really glad that I could do it all
purely within a Pd patch when [readanysf~] came along. Things were much
more cumbersome back then. Nowadays, with [command] this would work a
tad bit neater. 

It's definitely a fall-back option. However, I'd like to avoid it due
to the increased complexity and the different software involved. I
still want to process audio in Pd, so I have to make sure to route
vlc/mpv audio output to Pd through JACK, which requires to give each
JACK client (mpv/vlc and Pd) a unique name so that persistent routing
works (consider having many such setups in parallel). Also, I'd like to
avoid JACK all together so that a Pd hiccup does not cause an audible
drop-out. My radios run Pd with '-nosound -nomidi -nogui' and thus the
only buffering is happening in [mp3cast~]. Which again means there are
practically no drop-outs at all. The patch can even do tasks like
rendering text-to-speech voice with [flite~] without any side-effects.

Cheers,
Roman




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