multiple live video (Ustream) inputs
Hi all,
I am aiming to build a patch that takes multiple live video inputs over wifi from various distant locations into max. I was wondering if anyone had any insight into how I might import separate videos as separate channels into max. I am aware that I will probably have to use soundflower to route the audio as separate channels. I am working with max and the various inputs can be laptops (in various locations) and or ipads etc. Is http livestream possible - maybe iChat?
Many Thanks
Hey everyone, I have managed to use camtwist to get a live web video (from ustream) into max using jit.qt.grab but of course I can only get one video in and I need 5. I have looked into syphon - would this be possible? I can't seem to get anywhere getting video in through [syphonclient]. Any help would be much appreciated.
why you only can get one video in ? did you tried multiple jit.qt.grabs ?
right now om working on a patch with 8 video inputs .(with firewire not wifi)
Hey, well I want multiple sources (so five different live videos) and CamTwist can only get one source at a time - if i select the input from another jit.qt.grab it would just give me CamTwist again (taking the same video)...
Are you using 6 different devices with firewire? My patch is below (pretty much the jit.qt.grab helpfile).. if there is a way around this it would be amazing but I can't figure it out...
Many Thanks
i use 8 cams . it are unibrain fire-i cams
when i choose the device "IIDC firewire video"
and after that generates the inputlist
i get 8 cams in the ubumenu
i had the problem that i only could use two cams on one firewire bus
the mac pro has two busses (two connector per bus) so i had to add two more with a pci card .
dont know anything about camtwist or ip cams (yet)
what does camtwist do exactly ?
can't you just get the images in a browser and then grab them with jit.desktop if syphon is not working
i've not looked into syphon too far. I just can't get any sense out of it. My only problem with jit.desktop is that I can't crop the video to windows or the screens of the streaming video (e.g. on youtube to cut out the playbar and adds). Also I'm not sure I could fit 4-5 videos on a single screen - jit.desktop wont let me put windows over the top of the one I want will it? I had a poke around and these were the problems I found... solutions may well have been overlooked though.
Thanks for your reply, your project sounds interesting.
J
hoping to revive this very old thread... Jason how do you even get one ustream feed into jitter? i have camtwist, though it does not seem you can select something like that from the input list. output obviously yes, but as a camtwist input?