Greg Finger

I'm looking for a way to stream video through Mira onto my iPad. Obviously through WiFi there will be limitations. My router supports 1Gigabit network, that should still be able to send 720p, right? (1280 x 720 x 4 [rgba] x 8 [bits per channel] x 30 [frames per second] = 884,736,000) 720p isn't even very necessary since it really just needs to be a way to preview what's happening to the video in real-time on the iPad, so it could just be a 320x180 resolution. Even creating an adhoc network should support this.

but even with a 160x90 resolution [jit.matrix] at 30fps, it doesn't stream cleanly.

i'm using a [jit.gl.render] that shares a name with [jit.gl.asyncread] which is fed into a [jit.matrix]. Using a [qmetro 33], it's first banging [jit.gl.render], then banging a "exportimage image png" message to [jit.matrix], then banging a "pic image.png" message to my [fpic] object which lives in the Mira frame. This works all fine and dandy, which the image getting overwritten every 33ms (woah!), and displays it fine in the mira frame, but on the iPad, frames are dropped and sometimes displays "[image]" instead of the actual frame.

i've attached my patch, hopefully someone can improve upon it or has a better solution. my patch is currently using a syphon client object to receive the video input (which is streamed from another app), but this can easily be changed out and have anything fed to the [jit.gl.render].

Video Feed onto Mira using [fpic]