[OSC_dev] Adding OSC support to VLC

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Mon Nov 24 14:29:59 PST 2008


Good work !

Would it be useful to consider multiple decks ?

/deck/$id/play
/deck/$id/pause
/deck/$id/stop

Conor

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Nicholas J Humfrey <njh at aelius.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am thinking about adding OSC support to VideoLan. I did some work on
> using MPRIS (http://www.mpris.org/), which uses D-Bus to communicate
> with with VLC, but I am missing OSC and could do without the hassle of
> running D-Bus.
>
> I previously wrote MadJACK, an MPEG Audio Deck which sends its output
> to Jack:
> http://www.aelius.com/njh/madjack/
>
>
> I tried to design the protocol to be generic, so that it could be used
> by other media players too. There doesn't seem to be very much
> standardisation of OSC messages in the community (apart from the 'SYN'
> namespace).
>
> What do people think about my message format and namespace?
> Is it useful to standardise the messages for inter-compatibility?
> Would it be helpful to change the protocol to be able to address
> multiple decks?
>
>
> My plan is to initially just support the commands that don't need
> replies:
> /deck/play
> /deck/pause
> /deck/stop
> /deck/cue (f)
> /deck/eject
> /deck/load (s)
> /deck/volume (s)
>
> And if playlists were supported:
> /deck/add_track (s)
> /deck/next
> /deck/previous
> /deck/repeat (T/F)
>
>
>
> nick.
>
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