<div dir="ltr">It was a long time ago when I compiled it for my Mac, but I guess with MacPort or homebrew, using the same method as for linux.<div>Get the source of Gem from the github, and just compile it after installing libvlc-dev.</div><div>I think that is the whole philosophy behind it.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 9:30 PM Johnny Mauser via Pd-list <<a href="mailto:pd-list@lists.iem.at">pd-list@lists.iem.at</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Somehow i never got the vlc plugin to work. How do you do it? Can someone enlighten me?</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Am Do., 22. Nov. 2018, 17:01 hat Jack <<a href="mailto:jack@rybn.org" target="_blank">jack@rybn.org</a>> geschrieben:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Good to know ! Should be useful for OSX users.<br>
Thanx.<br>
++<br>
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Jack<br>
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Le 22/11/2018 à 16:27, Csaba Láng a écrit :<br>
> Just to make for others easier in the future, managed to have a video<br>
> input from a webcam into Gem on Mac OS X 10.14 with the VLC plugin,<br>
> which I admire very much :)<br>
> <br>
> Opened vlc first and added a Capture Device, which opened immediately<br>
> the webcam with a tytle of the window on the<br>
> top: qtcapture://0x14100000043e3009.<br>
> So sent a message to pix_vlc: device qtcapture://0x14100000043e3009 and<br>
> tadam there is the live input from the webcam.<br>
> <br>
> What is even better that I can use the same stream twice, once to VLC<br>
> and simultaneously into Pd as well.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Thanks for all the info you gave, that is why I love this community!<br>
> <br>
> Best,<br>
> Popesz<br>
> <br>
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 4:17 PM Csaba Láng <<a href="mailto:langcsaba@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">langcsaba@gmail.com</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:langcsaba@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">langcsaba@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> Perfect, thanks Jack, was looking for this page just could not find<br>
> in the deep noise on the mighty internet!<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 4:15 PM Jack <<a href="mailto:jack@rybn.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">jack@rybn.org</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:jack@rybn.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">jack@rybn.org</a>>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> To use VLC backend with [pix_video] :<br>
> - send [driver vlc(<br>
> - then send a message [device ...(<br>
> <br>
> where ... are instructions to use this backend. Explainations<br>
> are here :<br>
> <a href="https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_command-line_help" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_command-line_help</a><br>
> <br>
> For exemple to capture your screen, you can send [device screen://(<br>
> ++<br>
> <br>
> Jack<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Le 22/11/2018 à 15:51, Csaba Láng a écrit :<br>
> > Dear List,<br>
> ><br>
> > I am still looking for a reasonable solution to have a video<br>
> input to<br>
> > Mac OS X with Gem.<br>
> ><br>
> > I was testing syphon_client, works almost OK, except that<br>
> could not make<br>
> > any motion detector out of it, no pix_background works with<br>
> it, cannot<br>
> > change contrast, threshold, basically nothing.<br>
> ><br>
> > Just came to my mind the VLC plugin, which I have compiled<br>
> luckily, but<br>
> > the documentation is so poor to the VLC plugin that cannot<br>
> find a way to<br>
> > get a video device with one message into it.<br>
> ><br>
> > Can anyone give me a nice hint to use the vlc plugin with a<br>
> USB webcam<br>
> > connected directly to the computer? What is the message to use?<br>
> ><br>
> > Thanks in advance for any help!<br>
> ><br>
> > Popesz <br>
> ><br>
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