I want to build a program which takes a flexible number of videos and
mixes them all to one output. Basically, I want to be able to start
and stop playing any video at any time and have everything mixed into
one screen.
This is for a cafeteria that all of the walls and ceiling are covered
in 50,000 LEDs. Its not quite a video screen, since the pixels are
3"/8cm square, but it should allow for some crazy stuff (more info
later, as the project progresses). All of these LEDs are mapping to
a video-in. The idea is that someone could make a video for one
section of the cafeteria and it could be played at the same time as
someone else's video for a different section. Think of trying to
curate a giant video frame by divvying out sections of the screen to
a open-ended number of people.
(this doesn't have to happen in Pd, by the way, but it would be nice
if it did).
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