Video out virtual broadcaster / receiver

[ikari]

The ability to pass the video output directly out of Resolume through a "virtual-camera-broadcaster" or conduit of some sort would be great. This with the ability to have a "receiver" that would see the broadcasted output and show it in another copy of Resolume on another MacBook would be fantastic!

My scenario is this: a creative co-lab of 3 people with 3 MacBook Pros all running Resolume creating video output footage in a live environment. These outputs would then ultimately get broadcasted out to a central computer which receives the video signals as captured streams (much like live cameras) and could then mix and switch between them as needed, and send the final output to a projector.

I have came across a prototype of motion dive 5 which seems to do something like this using a thing they call Mew2Caster to send the signal out through quicktime, which i guess you could then grab somewhere else once it was broadcasted: http://istore.digitalstage.jp/MD5Proto/movie.html

If this functionality could be worked into Resolume, that would be amazing, and strip back half the physical hardware we have to currently use to get around this problem.

[ikari]

Any ideas with this one? a possible feature in future versions?
Even if it was just an output into quicktime that would be good. There are other apps out there that could then stream it, and something like a quartz patch could feed it back into Resolume.

[Joris]

Hey Ikari

The idea of being to send out images via the network and then receive them somewhere else is popping up more and more. However, the quality and resolution currently attainable with this technique is in our opinion not good enough to implement it. Once network compression and decompression techniques improve, we'll surely look into it.

I hope that answers your question.

[ikari]

Hi, thanks for taking the time to answer my question. I understand that video takes up a bit of network bandwidth, but i am able to stream video over my network quite successfully at pal sizes (720x576) with other software (Vlc, Eye Tv) without any loss of quality or frame rate. I can also successfully stream live video from my firewire video camera through EvoCam over my network to another computer and it displays great. I'm not talking about streaming over the internet but just over a local gigabit ethernet that's been specifically setup for the video performance. Even if there was just the option for people to hook into the output i'm sure many will find ways to use it.