Video support?
kflak opened this issue · 4 comments
Hi,
I'm dipping my toes into the lisp waters (again) and wondering if there's any way to get video input/playback working with sketch? I'm on Arch Linux.
Not currently, no. I've been looking to add support for saving a video recording of a sketch, but haven't gotten around to it yet. Dunno what it would take to be able to play videos in a sketch -- from what I can tell, the support for video is lacking in the CL ecosystem.
These are the currently supported resource types:
((:png :jpg :jpeg :tga :gif :bmp) :image)
((:ttf :otf) :typeface))
A workaround would be to use a gif, or dump the frames of your video as PNG files and cycle through them.
Thanks! I am looking at doing live video processing of a webcam, which would be tricky to do with that approach (although there might be some way to get around it with ffmpeg/v4l2...?). For video files the frame dump option could be plausible. I guess that's what processing and openFrameworks does when it comes down to it: displaying one image after another... Although that approach would still need some way to make sure that the video playback is happening at the right speed.
Yeah, maybe it could work with ffmpeg/v4l2, though I don't have experience with those and don't know if there would be an efficient way to dump their output into Sketch's OpenGL buffers.