Playing Movie in FaceOSC

[NathanSepulveda]

@danomatika I'm very out of here with no programming experience other than Pure Data and Max. However, I'm trying to understand the instructions for playing movies within FaceOSC. In the read me it says

"Put the movie file in your home folder and set it in the movie tag with the full path to the movie aka:
/Users/YourUserAccountName/yourMovie.mov
Change the source tag to 0 to use the movie as input. Also check the other movie settings (volume, speed)."

But I'm not exactly sure what the "home" folder is, or what exactly a full path to it is.

I'm creating an interactive computer music system that incorporates FaceOSC and the ability to play movies within in would be a great help.

Thanks,
Nathan Sepulveda

[danomatika]

If you're on macOS, your home folder path is similar to the example ala:

/Users/YOUUSERACCOUNT/movie.mov

Replace "YOUUSERACCOUNT" with your user name and "movie.mov" with the move filename+extension. Easiest way to get the full path to the home folder is open Terminal.app and run:

pwd

which will print the working directory. This is usually your home folder when first opening Terminal.

Otherwise, read these:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_(computing)
• https://demo.mavrosxristoforos.com/relative-and-absolute-file-paths

[NathanSepulveda]

Got it! Thanks.

Nathan

[NathanSepulveda]

Hi again,

Loading movies into FaceOSC was working fine for sometime. However it suddenly stopped and in Terminal I see this. Just wondering what the error could be and how to fix it.

[danomatika]

The Requested URL was not found on this server.

Seems pretty straightforward to me: the movie file at that path was not found, so it couldn't load the movie. Make sure the file is there and the path is correct, including capitalization.

[NathanSepulveda]

I wish it were that easy, but it says it could not load the movie. Movies that were working just fine before no longer work when I haven't changed anything about them, their location, or spelling. Any reason why they wouldn't load?

Thanks,
Nathan