sayVIMS : something broken ?

[d-j-a-y]

i try the first example of the man page

$ sayVIMS -h localhost -p 3490 255:;
I: Link: 0 connected with 127.0.0.1 on port 57735
I: Link: 0 connected with 127.0.0.1 on port 43232

 ^E: Invalid VIMS instruction 'V001D '

got that.... something broken doctor ?

[game-stop]

not reproducable, did you do a clean build before you encountered this issue? status mechanism changed one or two days ago which could explain this issue if you did not recompile sayVIMS

D: VIMS (v) Message too small
D: Message content
D: msg [V000D255:;] (4 bytes) at position 0
 ^D: VIMS (v) - dropped message
E: Invalid VIMS instruction 'V000D255:;'

And no such VIMS event:

I: VIMS selector 251    'Request shared resource from another veejay'
I:      FORMAT: '%d', where:
I:              Argument 0 is Port number
I: VIMS selector 254    'Suspend Veejay (caution!)'
I: VIMS selector 300    'Set audio volume'
I:      FORMAT: '%d', where:
I:              Argument 0 is Volume 0-100
I: VIMS selector 301    'Enable / Disable Fullscreen video output'

[d-j-a-y]

still the same problem even for 017 event ...
$ sayVIMS -h localhost -p 3490 017:;
i may do something wrong.

[game-stop]

the ';' might get interpreted by bash, and sayVIMS like that would start it in interactive mode (reading from stdin), try:

sayVIMS -h localhost -p3490 -m "017:;"

[d-j-a-y]

yep ! that's working now. Have done that mistake copy/pasting from manpage sayVIMS manpage ....
I will do some change there because in bold, double quote " character is not displayed (and need to be escaped ??? \*(lq )

So : Is it normal that take so much time ~1700 ms ?

#!/bin/bash

START_TIME=`echo $(($(date +%s%N)/1000000))`

sayVIMS -h localhost -p3490 -m "017:;"

END_TIME=`echo $(($(date +%s%N)/1000000))`
ELAPSED_TIME=$(($END_TIME - $START_TIME))

echo $ELAPSED_TIME

[d-j-a-y]

So : Is it normal that take so much time ~1700 ms ?

because of connect and disconnect time i guess ?
for reactivity... interactive mode !

[game-stop]

1700 ms is too long, sayVIMS should depend on veejay's frame period (so if rendering takes 2 seconds, sayVIMS will take 2 seconds as well)

This is with veejay -d and no FX ?

Also, for timing just issue 'wall' in front of sayVIMS for accurate measurement

[d-j-a-y]

This is with veejay -d and no FX ?

i have redone the test with -d and it's quite the same result.

[game-stop]

what is the output from wall sayVIMS -h localhost -p3490 -m "017:;" ?

i'll look at this tomorrow

[d-j-a-y]

$man wall

wall - write a message to all users

wall ???