ofxGL2Webcam for openFrameworks

About

GL2Webcam addon

Inspired by ofxSyphon

You can publish your openFrameworks texture to virtual webcam device with this addon.

Work in progress!

Licensing

See the included License.txt file

Requirements

• GL2Webcam and openFrameworks 011 or better

• required GLVersion == 4.0

Installation

• The installer for GL2Webcam is available at

  • https://www.dropbox.com/s/obrk676wcg0rxw4/GL2Webcam.pkg.zip?dl=0

• Download and install openFramworks

  • https://openframeworks.cc/

• Create a new ofxGL2Webcam openFrameworks project

  • https://openframeworks.cc/learning/#how_tos

• Add GL2Webcam.framework to your XCode project

  • settings -> target -> Frameworks, Libraries & Embedded Content
    • add GL2Webcam.framework to the list (with [+] button) [if not added]
  • keep "Embed & Sign"

• Change project settings -> target -> Build Settings

• Framework Search Paths: add "../../../addons/ofxGL2Webcam/libs/osx" [if not added]

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• Your GL2Webcam-plugin-assistant automatically launches GL2Webcam when you login.

• After your GLWebcam-plugin starts, it is listening at port 46664 (default).There is no new virtual-webcam-device created in a system

• When you start your virtual-webcam-app, it tells GLWebcam-plugin to generate new port to receive texture data from this app. (starting from listeningPort+1 until listeningPort+1+maxFramePortsTry)

• When you start your virtual-webcam-app-1 with resolution 1920x1080, new virtual-webcam-device that streams only from this app should appear immediately.

• When you start your virtual-webcam-app-2 with resolution 1920x1080, new virtual-webcam-device that streams only from this app should appear immediately.

• When you close one of the consumer app, its stream will display splash screen for 10 seconds.

• After 10 seconds of inactivity, the device will be destroyed.

• The name of virtual-webcam-device is GL2Webcam Virtual Camera + id now. will be updated soon..