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

[Csaba Láng]

my last 5 cents to this topic, I wanted to confirm that even the built-in
FaceTime camera works stable.
Hope helped to our Mac community.

Popesz

On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 9:35 PM Csaba Láng <langcsaba at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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