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

[Johnny Mauser]

Somehow i never got the vlc plugin to work. How do you do it? Can someone
enlighten me?

Am Do., 22. Nov. 2018, 17:01 hat Jack <jack at rybn.org> geschrieben:

> Good to know ! Should be useful for OSX users.
> Thanx.
> ++
>
> Jack
>
>
>
> Le 22/11/2018 à 16:27, Csaba Láng a écrit :
> > Just to make for others easier in the future, managed to have a video
> > input from a webcam into Gem on Mac OS X 10.14 with the VLC plugin,
> > which I admire very much :)
> >
> > Opened vlc first and added a Capture Device, which opened immediately
> > the webcam with a tytle of the window on the
> > top: qtcapture://0x14100000043e3009.
> > So sent a message to pix_vlc: device qtcapture://0x14100000043e3009 and
> > tadam there is the live input from the webcam.
> >
> > What is even better that I can use the same stream twice, once to VLC
> > and simultaneously into Pd as well.
> >
> >
> > Thanks for all the info you gave,  that is why I love this community!
> >
> > Best,
> > Popesz
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 4:17 PM Csaba Láng <langcsaba at gmail.com
> > <mailto:langcsaba at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     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
> >     <mailto: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
> >
> >
> >
> >         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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