OF app video output as video input device

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#1

First of all, thanks. OpenFrameworks is great. It has made my life a lot easier.

I would like to use my openframeworks apps to be treated as a video input device, somehing like a “fake camera”, so I can have that as video for videoconference software like Skype or iChat.

I’m running OSX and/or Linux. Is there any known application or driver that can do this?

Maybe treat it like a V4L2 device /dev/videoX in linux…

anybody?

#2

There’s this:
http://v4l2vd.sourceforge.net/

Looks like it doesn’t run with the absolute latest kernels though, check the forums for more info.

#3

Nice, this does at least half of the job, but instead it has given me new ideas…

I might use graphics produced from my app to a file as streaming video input…

thanks for your answer…

reading some Drivers and Kernel Extension developing for OSX now…

wish me luck…

#4

Check out camtwist… it has a obj-c plugin… Havent tried it

#5

Thanks halfdanj, now we’re talking…

nuf said

that’ll work.

#6

If you manage to get it to work with OF, please release it as a addon :slight_smile: Would be nice in many situations!

#7

just found this:

http://code.google.com/p/v4lsink/

in linux it should be pretty easy to integrate with ofGstUtils