Mirko Petrovich wrote:
probably your [color]/[colorRGB] is set to black ? (or the alpha-channel is 0 ??) thinking of this, it might be, that the video4linux-driver is able to produce RGBA-images but unfortunately sets the alpha-channel of each pixel to 0. in this case, you will have to raise it manually.
I checked this, and it's not the problem , the strange thing is that alpha works in pix_gray and even in pix_yuv (I get a distorted image, I guess this is right).
this isn't strange as [pix_grey] and [pix_yuv] use colour-spaces that do not have an alpha-channels (so it is automatically set to 1) i still believe that the problem is, that [pix_video] returns RGBA-images with alpha=0 (you could watch this with [pix_histo] furthermore, you can send a [colorspace YUV( or [colorspace GREY( message to [pix_video], which might be faster (depending on the video-capture-device)
I was calling pix-mixers (I forgot there was a pix_mix object) as a generic name, actually I'm using compose,add,subtract,diff,compare, chroma_key,mask, etc... and my idea was to fade the resulting image textured in a lot of geos (with openGL-alpha blending).
i was just asking; could have been possible that you were only interested in simple mixing...
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