[PD] webcam to pix_video with VLC plugin on Mac OS X

[Csaba Láng]

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 at 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
>
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> 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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