Simon, finger crossed for your efforts. Basically, I planned to use a webcam with fullHD and a simple mask in it, should not be too CPU consuming, but I will try an other solution. Anyway, I am totally interested in your progress, please let me inform your achievements.
Good luck! On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Simon Wise <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/02/15 21:20, Julian Brooks wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> RPi currently cannot run opengl (only opengl es) which is required for >> GEM, >> so afaict no GEM on the RPi currently. >> > > you can't get video into GEM (yet), I have managed to control playback, > overlays and mapping from within pd with some very messy scripting and > mucking around with the sample programs in C, but so far it is all one-off > hacks for particular tasks. The first more generally useful outcome is a pd > external that talks to omxplayer via dbus, allowing much better timing and > volume control, it is working for an exhibition that opens shortly ... and > I am currently trying to get the player rendering to a texture as my next > step... which will then be able to be moved around, layered etc, and > properly wrapped up as an external. > > A big limitation is the resolution ... 1080p can have one layer (only > just), but it is looking like once I get rid of as much of the overhead as > possible, putting as much as possible into pd externals, then two layers of > 720p (which is plenty good enough for most projectors) should be possible. > Dropping the resolution further will give much more flexibility, and is > fine for lots of material. > > But it is slow work for me, I'm learning a lot in the process. > > > Simon > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/ > listinfo/pd-list >
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