[ANSWERED] Dynamic Load Videos

tincho-genosha

Hello everyone,

This is my first post, so happy using Isadora for an interactive experience.

We are developing a experience where a user can choose from over 100 videos.

Is there any way to not load in the media list and and make the available and loaded as soon as we need them?

Each video is about 100~250MB each.

Thanks!

kirschkematthias

@tincho-genosha

Hi,

I haven't heard yet of a method to connect isadora ton an external folder or hard drive to look permanently for content and show it up. That will be great. Maybe you can do it via script.

many greetings

Matthias

jfg

@tincho-genosha

I don't really understand why you need this. The videos in the media window are only link to the media on your hard drive. it doesn't matter if you have a video of 10 MB or 5 GB. I made a test with 40 videos (a lot of them are bigger than 1GB) and the Izzy file is 250 kb. Could you explain why you need to have this function.

best, Jean-François

dbini

...what jfg said - the videos in the media bin are just references. they are not loaded until you need them.

kirschkematthias

@jfg

I think what he meant was that isadora looks into a specified folder and automatically loads them into the video bin. When you change some files it possible actualize the bin. So you can take some files out, some files in without changing the patch.

Maybe?

many greetings

Matthias

Woland

If you're talking about setting a folder to watch, then having Isadora automatically import any new files placed in that folder, we have this already as a feature request, but outside of using a Mac and AppleScript, there's no feature in Isadora right now that allows for this. Regardless of whether you're on Mac or Windows, you could write an external script in Python or something that clicks on things, simulates key-presses, etc, to import your media for you at set intervals or similar.

You could to do something like what @Juriaan did here: https://community.troikatronix.com/topic/1288/load-pictures-automatically/14?_=1654074564833

tincho-genosha

Thanks everyone for the answers.

First of all, yes, the main test was to use more than 100. And as you all said, they are all references.

But as Woland said, the main issue is that those videos are dynamic. We don't want the operator to open isadora if a new video file requieres to be used.

@Woland where can I find a Python example on how to "load" files to the media bin?

Thanks everyone for the quick answers!

Woland

@tincho-genosha said:

@Woland where can I find a Python example on how to "load" files to the media bin?

I cannot point you to an example unfortunately, I was just saying that it is possible to write external code that clicks on things, simulates key-presses, etc, to import your media for you at set intervals or something similar.