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

Csaba Láng langcsaba at gmail.com
Thu Nov 22 21:35:19 CET 2018


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.
Get the source of Gem from the github, and just compile it after installing
libvlc-dev.
I think that is the whole philosophy behind it.

On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 9:30 PM Johnny Mauser via Pd-list <
pd-list at lists.iem.at> wrote:

> 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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