question about DVD player and Basic stamp
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Hi,
My name is Federico Muelas, I'm an artist working with technology and
I'm having a solo show in Barcelona at the end of the year titled "the sound
of the chocolate smell" where I'm showing my recent installation pieces,
you can check the info of the show at www.federicomuelas.com.
I wonder if anyone has work with a DVD Player other than the Pioneer (and
may be cheaper), with a serial port to be controlled with the basic stamp?
Thanks
Federico Muelas
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My name is Federico Muelas, I'm an artist working with technology and
I'm having a solo show in Barcelona at the end of the year titled "the sound
of the chocolate smell" where I'm showing my recent installation pieces,
you can check the info of the show at www.federicomuelas.com.
I wonder if anyone has work with a DVD Player other than the Pioneer (and
may be cheaper), with a serial port to be controlled with the basic stamp?
Thanks
Federico Muelas
d2ec@h...
_________________________________________________________________
Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online
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Comments
Instead of a DVD player to get multichannel audio, you could use Windows
Media Player (WMA9) to stream up to 7.1 surround audio as well as video.
This will run from any modern PC with an inexpensive soundcard like an
M-Audio Sonica Theater.
For control, you could use a Stamp to spoof the keyboard on the PC and call
up the songs directly, or simply use the jukebox function in Media Player to
stack all your pieces in the correct order and trigger the next piece.
Another way would be to have the PC or Stamp chase SMPTE time code to call
up the next event. That way you could lock the whole system together along
with a lighting/dimmer controller that would control the whole event.
The Media 9 encoder is a free download from Microsoft, and the player
(decoder) is included in all Windows XP systems, so it's pretty inexpensive
to implement, assuming you already have a PC at least a 1 GHZ processor or
so. The Media Player codec can do great audio and video at compression rates
as high as 20:1, and I've recently seen a 768 kb/s A/V stream playing back
at AES that was pretty spectacular.
Let me know if you want to try this for your show and I'll send the all the
links to make it happen.
Mike Sokol
www.modernrecording.com
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Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 7:18 PM
Subject: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] question about DVD player and Basic stamp
> Hi,
> My name is Federico Muelas, I'm an artist working with technology and
> I'm having a solo show in Barcelona at the end of the year titled "the
sound
> of the chocolate smell" where I'm showing my recent installation pieces,
> you can check the info of the show at www.federicomuelas.com.
>
> I wonder if anyone has work with a DVD Player other than the Pioneer (and
> may be cheaper), with a serial port to be controlled with the basic stamp?
>
> Thanks
>
> Federico Muelas
>
> d2ec@h...
>
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