Ben Bogart - FMPM/F1999 wrote:
How far off is the possibility of using pix_movie (or a variation) like pix_url, using the quicktime lib, in order to tune into a quicktime stream? One could then stream video directly into PD over network... has other intertesting possibilities as well. :)
i never thought of this, but sounds great
quicktime definitely has this capability, and i would think that the win API has the same features as the mac one in this regard. instead of calling NewMovieFromFile the call is NewMovieFromDataRef, so it's easy to integrate into existing quicktime code.
i have no idea if it's possible to fake this on linux, but since the quicktime streaming server (qtss) runs on linux, the libs for creating a stream and possibly decoding it might be available.
also there is the possibility to stream directly out from an app to a server now. i have some example code for this, but it states that it only works on the mac. perhaps a linux hack from GEM to the qtss could be done??
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