[PD] open-ended video mixing

B. Bogart ben at ekran.org
Thu Mar 23 16:25:56 CET 2006


Define "mix"?

Do you mean alpha blended on top of one and other, or do you mean placed
side by side? The more videos you get the smaller the videos become?

.b.

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
> 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).
>
> .hc
>
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