Good to know ! Should be useful for OSX users.
Thanx.
++
Jack
Le 22/11/2018 à 16:27, Csaba Láng a écrit :
> Just to make for others easier in the future, managed to have a video
> input from a webcam into Gem on Mac OS X 10.14 with the VLC plugin,
> which I admire very much :)
>
> Opened vlc first and added a Capture Device, which opened immediately
> the webcam with a tytle of the window on the
> top: qtcapture://0x14100000043e3009.
> So sent a message to pix_vlc: device qtcapture://0x14100000043e3009 and
> tadam there is the live input from the webcam.
>
> What is even better that I can use the same stream twice, once to VLC
> and simultaneously into Pd as well.
>
>
> Thanks for all the info you gave, that is why I love this community!
>
> Best,
> Popesz
>
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 4:17 PM Csaba Láng <langcsaba@gmail.com
> <mailto:langcsaba@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Perfect, thanks Jack, was looking for this page just could not find
> in the deep noise on the mighty internet!
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 4:15 PM Jack <jack@rybn.org
> <mailto:jack@rybn.org>> wrote:
>
> To use VLC backend with [pix_video] :
> - send [driver vlc(
> - then send a message [device ...(
>
> where ... are instructions to use this backend. Explainations
> are here :
> https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_command-line_help
>
> For exemple to capture your screen, you can send [device screen://(
> ++
>
> Jack
>
>
>
> Le 22/11/2018 à 15:51, Csaba Láng a écrit :
> > Dear List,
> >
> > I am still looking for a reasonable solution to have a video
> input to
> > Mac OS X with Gem.
> >
> > I was testing syphon_client, works almost OK, except that
> could not make
> > any motion detector out of it, no pix_background works with
> it, cannot
> > change contrast, threshold, basically nothing.
> >
> > Just came to my mind the VLC plugin, which I have compiled
> luckily, but
> > the documentation is so poor to the VLC plugin that cannot
> find a way to
> > get a video device with one message into it.
> >
> > Can anyone give me a nice hint to use the vlc plugin with a
> USB webcam
> > connected directly to the computer? What is the message to use?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help!
> >
> > Popesz
> >
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