It was a long time ago when I compiled it for my Mac, but I guess with MacPort or homebrew, using the same method as for linux. Get the source of Gem from the github, and just compile it after installing libvlc-dev. I think that is the whole philosophy behind it.
On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 9:30 PM Johnny Mauser via Pd-list < pd-list@lists.iem.at> wrote: > Somehow i never got the vlc plugin to work. How do you do it? Can someone > enlighten me? > > Am Do., 22. Nov. 2018, 17:01 hat Jack <j...@rybn.org> geschrieben: > >> Good to know ! Should be useful for OSX users. >> Thanx. >> ++ >> >> Jack >> >> >> >> Le 22/11/2018 à 16:27, Csaba Láng a écrit : >> > Just to make for others easier in the future, managed to have a video >> > input from a webcam into Gem on Mac OS X 10.14 with the VLC plugin, >> > which I admire very much :) >> > >> > Opened vlc first and added a Capture Device, which opened immediately >> > the webcam with a tytle of the window on the >> > top: qtcapture://0x14100000043e3009. >> > So sent a message to pix_vlc: device qtcapture://0x14100000043e3009 and >> > tadam there is the live input from the webcam. >> > >> > What is even better that I can use the same stream twice, once to VLC >> > and simultaneously into Pd as well. >> > >> > >> > Thanks for all the info you gave, that is why I love this community! >> > >> > Best, >> > Popesz >> > >> > On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 4:17 PM Csaba Láng <langcs...@gmail.com >> > <mailto:langcs...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> > >> > Perfect, thanks Jack, was looking for this page just could not find >> > in the deep noise on the mighty internet! >> > >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 4:15 PM Jack <j...@rybn.org >> > <mailto:j...@rybn.org>> wrote: >> > >> > To use VLC backend with [pix_video] : >> > - send [driver vlc( >> > - then send a message [device ...( >> > >> > where ... are instructions to use this backend. Explainations >> > are here : >> > https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_command-line_help >> > >> > For exemple to capture your screen, you can send [device >> screen://( >> > ++ >> > >> > Jack >> > >> > >> > >> > Le 22/11/2018 à 15:51, Csaba Láng a écrit : >> > > Dear List, >> > > >> > > I am still looking for a reasonable solution to have a video >> > input to >> > > Mac OS X with Gem. >> > > >> > > I was testing syphon_client, works almost OK, except that >> > could not make >> > > any motion detector out of it, no pix_background works with >> > it, cannot >> > > change contrast, threshold, basically nothing. >> > > >> > > Just came to my mind the VLC plugin, which I have compiled >> > luckily, but >> > > the documentation is so poor to the VLC plugin that cannot >> > find a way to >> > > get a video device with one message into it. >> > > >> > > Can anyone give me a nice hint to use the vlc plugin with a >> > USB webcam >> > > connected directly to the computer? What is the message to >> use? >> > > >> > > Thanks in advance for any help! >> > > >> > > Popesz >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > Pd-list@lists.iem.at <mailto:Pd-list@lists.iem.at> mailing >> list >> > > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >> > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Pd-list@lists.iem.at <mailto:Pd-list@lists.iem.at> mailing list >> > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >> > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list >> > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >> > >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >> > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >
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