How is it that Syphon works into this setup? I thought CamTwist can load and 
run qtz's already. Does it seem better for framerate to stream the output of a 
running composition to a qtz running in CamTwist with syphon as a "listener"? 


On Apr 5, 2012, at 4:24 AM, Achim Breidenbach wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> since it is very hard to implement this virtual camera, we decided to 
> recommend using CamTwist in order to stream content for BoinxTV at this time. 
> It turns out, that in combination with Syphon and SoundFlower this works very 
> well for our customers.
> 
> best,
> 
> Achim Breidenbach
> Boinx Software
> 
> 
> On 05.04.2012, at 09:12, Lee Grosbauer wrote:
> 
>> Hi Alastair,
>> 
>> It appears that you are inquiring how to turn any given application
>> into having the capability of being it's own virtual camera. All the
>> stand-alone virtual camera applications which George mentioned rely on
>> a specialized QuickTime component, so it's likely that's what would
>> need to be developed and then integrated directly into each app in
>> question in order for those apps to appear as cam sources to broadcast
>> hosts such as Ustream. It would be for others to say whether or not
>> that's do-able. I'm guessing however that the stand-alone virtual cams
>> are probably the most reasonable recourse.
>> 
>> Lee
>> 
>> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 2:03 AM, Alastair Leith
>> <usefuldesign...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks for the leads, George.
>>> 
>>> How do you envisage one would go about making an application's output appear
>>> to the system that it is a camera? Any idea what protocols determine 'this
>>> is a camera data-stream'?
>>> 
>>> On 05/04/2012, at 3:00 PM, George Toledo wrote:
>>> 
>>> If Ustream is looking for a "camera" input, you'd have your app or some QC
>>> plugin setup so that it looks like a camera driver to the system.
>>> 
>>> There are some opensource projects that use macam or fakam to do that
>>> (https://github.com/rsodre/ofxFakam , or "Synapse")... I think I've seen
>>> some sample code at the ADC that does something like that as well, but I'm
>>> not 100% sure, can't recall any project names. I have the impression that
>>> the app camtwist has that function, as far as already available apps go.
>>> Again, don't use it, so I'm not 100% certain about that.
>>> 
>>> -gt
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