Ask HN: How do I send video output of a program on one Mac to another Mac?

1 points by jsilence 13y ago ↗ HN

Apologies if this question is off topic for HN. I am desperate.

There is a plethora of hardware and software solutions for capturing video, sharing desktops and streaming videos to TVs out there. None of those seems to be applicable for my specific problem.

I am posting here in the hope that some creative video minded person might be able to help. (Pointers to better places to ask this question are also appreciated.)

Question: On my two Macs I would like to send video output (from Resolume Avenue, Pure Data, Processing, whatever) via ethernet to a second machine. Preferably in a way that would allow to use the stream as a video input device in Quartz Composer or Resolume Avenue.

Is there a software to do this?

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kaptain 13y ago ↗

Can you be more specific about what you've tried and why it didn't work? Some obvious solutions come to mind but I suspect I don't understand exactly the parameters if the problem.

jsilence 13y ago ↗

I'd like to have a video mixer implemented in puredata on one machine and route that video output via ethernet to a second machine into quartz composer and/or Resolume Avenue.

The purpose is a two person VJ setup where the output of one person can be used as input for the second person.

Currently digging into pdp_i/pdp_o and trying to somehow pipe a gem chain through pdp to the second machine where I'd pick it up with pd_syphon for usage in any Syphon ready software.

mvidal01 13y ago ↗

Maybe http://syphon.v002.info/

jsilence 13y ago ↗

Unfortunately Syphon does not work over the network and the faq states that no such support is planned.

"Alternatively, MaxMSP/Jitter has jit.net.send and jit.net.recieve objects."

Hm, don't have MaxMSP/Jitter. Maybe I'll download their trial and experiment.