So I tried out the quicktime broadcaster, just using quicktime player to pick it up on the other computer. However there was about 3 seconds of lag, which is too slow for what I need.
I also tried the QuickTime RTSP Server... to an extent. But by the time i downloaded it, installed it and finished my second quiz trying to start it, I decided that it was a little too heavy for what I needed (it isn't really that much of an issue at the moment) and it would most likely have the 3 second lag as well - assuming its using the same technology as the Quicktime Broadcaster. For a third attempt, I used video skype (which had the video streaming instantly, even though it was going through wireless to the net, back to wireless then to my other mac. I thought this was strange since the Quicktime Broadcaster didn't have to go to the net but had the delay). Then used Vade's Screen Grabber plugin to grab the Skype window, however the image from that can't be used in a Queue patch - talked to him about it, this is a known bug with Quartz Composer. So that didn't work for me (it will though, for people that don't need to use the Queue Patch with it). Then I came across this video http://www.udart.dk/2009/07/30/the-5-video-mixer-how-to-do-a-dv-screen-cast-through-firewire/. Which seems to do what I want, but I don't have a firewire cable :,( so i'll have to order one off the net and see how it goes. Although Udart also says that... - There is a visible delay as with other DV sources. This is because DV is a > compressed format and so it also takes some CPU resources on both machines So i'm thinking that it might not be good enough anyway. Then I hit my limit of how much time I wanted to spend on this and stopped looking. This isn't really that much of an issue for me at the moment, so i'll willing to put it aside. If it does become a huge issue, I might be able to write a plugin that uses the IMService class to get the image from iChat ( http://developer.apple.com/leopard/overview/imframework.html). Although I have no idea if that is possible, if I have the skill to do it, or if I will run into the same bug that Vade ran into. Oh well, such is life. Thanks for the help everyone. Cheers Lango On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 2:46 PM, David Langford <[email protected]>wrote: > Ahh, this looks along the lines of what I want. > > Thanks Rob and Peter, i'll try it out during the week and let everyone know > how it goes. > > Cheers > > Lango > > On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Rob Duarte <[email protected]> wrote: > >> nice solution. Also, Apple's Broadcaster is much simpler than the full >> blown RTSP server.. http://www.apple.com/quicktime/broadcaster/ >> >> On Feb 13, 2010, at 1:29 PM, Peter Boocock wrote: >> >> q: What is the easiest way to get a video input on say, my laptop into a >> quartz >> composer app running on my iMac? >> a: place live video input into RTSP stream deliver via QuickTime RTSP >> Server and a network connection. RTSP url through Movie Loader set to >> Asynchronous Mode into a render patch in QC. Jobs a goodun. >> >> :-) >> >> Apple - QuickTime - Streaming >> Server<http://www.apple.com/quicktime/streamingserver/> >> _______________________________________________ >> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >> Quartzcomposer-dev mailing list ([email protected]) >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> >> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/quartzcomposer-dev/rahji%40rahji.com >> >> This email sent to [email protected] >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >> Quartzcomposer-dev mailing list ([email protected]) >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> >> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/quartzcomposer-dev/langford.d%40gmail.com >> >> This email sent to [email protected] >> > >
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