How to use the new sound triggers in discord using the free VLC media player.

With the help of https://www.101soundboards.com/search/ for sounds and https://fantasygroundsunity.atlassia...ing-with-Regex for defining sound sets and https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forum...C-media-player for defining VLC/Kenku FM/Discord bot... I am officially ready for Monday's game with sounds and using Kenku to also play background music...

VLC still has some issues like search not working and have to hit sounds twice occasionally in host (not seen it miss a sound from player) - but still... free... 🙂




https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forum...3&d=1687635352

Nice work!

I guess I need to know if this VLC extensions is actively supported. I was wrong when I said players could trigger the sounds consistently - its just inconsistent across the board - host or client. Sometimes they trigger sometimes they do not. Same triggers - same sounds - nothing I can tell is different between working and not working. Seems very timing something ish.

Question is as the code in the Vault I can't go see what the issue is and get it ready for my game if its an easy fix - so is this actively being maintained? I ask as I have no idea how old this is or how active the dev for it is.

For sure if I force a YES only on all URL questions it will work as it forces two answers (one blank shown earlier in this thread followed by the actual sound file). And if YES TO ALL is in effect sometimes if I force the host to play a sound it will make the next one play (after I click enough to get the sound to play first). If that helps.

Finally noticed these errors occuring in console log - hopefully they help debug this - will pass to SW also...

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Originally Posted by SilentRuin

Has not worked for me with VLC.

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Thanks SilentRuin. Unfortunately this extension is mostly unusable if we can't do search in it. I hope the creator can see this thread.

Silentruin I spoke to Tarks it it looks like our issue could be related to the port on our PC used.for.VLC and firewall or another program using that port. If I get time I'm going to mess with it today.

As far as search goes that's getting hooked up. I'd remind everyone this is free and he is doing this out of the goodness of his heart.

Thanks Bayne and lot of thanks to Tarks for this great app.

Edit: 06/25 The search problem has been solved by Tarks! :)

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Originally Posted by bayne7400

Silentruin I spoke to Tarks it it looks like our issue could be related to the port on our PC used.for.VLC and firewall or another program using that port. If I get time I'm going to mess with it today.

As far as search goes that's getting hooked up. I'd remind everyone this is free and he is doing this out of the goodness of his heart.

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Understood - just needed clarity on if this was something being worked on (some extensions fall by the wayside and are no longer maintained). Was actually looking at Kenku and FGU interal play sound and sound id coding stuff as a backup if this remains an issue. Seems if you start remote on kenku you should be able to query its soundboard id's then play them. Obviously this would differ from VLC and Syrinscape as there would be no "File Import" option - it would just pull out whatever soundboard you identified to use in Kenku. Guess "file import" would really be a soundboard id and sound id in it. HTTP syntax seems fairly straightforward - but honestly - if this VLC stuff works I'm good with using it for sure before I tried to do anything myself.

And for sure appreciate his working on it. And warn him - users are the bane of all extensions devs! ;)

The problem with Kenku is it requires a PUT request to play sounds or control the web interface. There is a separate thread for Kenku with Moon Wizards response as to why Unity cant do it. VLC works by just opening the URL and the rest is embedded into the code.

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Originally Posted by bayne7400

The problem with Kenku is it requires a PUT request to play sounds or control the web interface. There is a separate thread for Kenku with Moon Wizards response as to why Unity cant do it. VLC works by just opening the URL and the rest is embedded into the code.

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Did not know that, figured if FGU (based on unity) supported HTTP - it fully supported it. Not sure if I included this as part of my error log but if this helps these occurred first...

[6/25/2023 11:05:01 AM] [WARNING] uri: DUPLICATE - https://localhost:8080/requests/stat...mmand=pl_empty
[6/25/2023 11:05:01 AM] [WARNING] uri: DUPLICATE - https://localhost:8080/requests/stat...-whos-back.mp3