SMPTE / LTC reader - video playback synchronisation

Hello,

I wonder if it would be hard to code a smpte-reader node in VVVV.
By SMPTE, I’m mainly thinking about “audio Linear TimeCode”. cf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_timecode

The final goal is to synchronise a video-file playback to music played on stage.
For exemple : with a LTC track played by the “Ableton Live” of a musician captured by the audio-in of the VVVV computer.

This works fine on Catalyst mediaserver, but there is no generative capabilities,
and I love VVVV much more ! ;)

One of my idea was to generate a clock on which we can base the FileStream node (instead of system clock)
This would be the less ressource-eater as it would naturally synchronise the video.

I couldn’t found any smpte reader for windows to do a translation into MTC out of VVVV.
I really made a lot of search before asking, but I can’t find any solution.

Joreg, don’t worry, this will be a project of All Access Design, who bought licenses ;)

Any idea ? Even comercial proposition for coding the node…

hi Duck,
if you really don’t have access to a wifi or an ethernet connection between the 2 computers
you can try the old school method but you’ll have to deal with offsets,
pre roll, fps format and conversions…
here is a Smpte to midi converterhttp://www.jlcooper.com/_php/product.php?prod=pps2

for me the best solution would be to send the Ableton clock via OSC (Max for Live)or if you need to sync your video to a specific clip in live
you can observe the “playing_status” and “playing_position” of that clip…
good luck

LTC would be nice, had need of it for a project recently, we ended up sending LTC from vvvv ie playing back an audio file, but big shows often require LTC. there is
http://ltcsmpte.sourceforge.net/

which links to



But obviuosly require someone to code a plugin…

As far as I know @eno)) & ((user:milo used one of those cards in a project quite recently. Maybe they’ll release the plugin…

wow. that’s a PCI card!
i think somebody has already written a plugin based on libltc. i’m not sure if they can make it public, will check.

@circuitb > I don’t meant a solution based on Live. Musicians can change the software they use. For example, on this project, it’s finally Reason who plays the show instead of Live.
A smpte audio track is universal, you can put it in any software able to play an audio track.

@elliotwoods > Any news from “somebody” who wrote the plugin ?

It’s already the second project I do under “Catalyst media-server” instead of VVVV
because I can’t find a good way to synchronise video file playback to music played on stage.

Nobody had this need in VVVV ?
What were the solutions found ?

But @elliotwoods)) already did it, ((user:DuckEater.
You can download it here:


and it’s working, just check the zip-folder inside LTCNodes, there is all that you’ll need. it took me a while to figure that out. But huge thanks anyway, Elliot! Keep on your good work! I’ll contribute something soon, too :)

But I noticed that there is a Memory Leak… :(