I would like to set an image as a source for my webcam, so for example, when I turn it on, it displays this picture and the actual camera feed.
It does not matter which language I use for this (preferably TS), but I have not found any library that does this.
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I'm using the package Agora Video SDK for Unity and I have followed these two tutorials:
https://www.agora.io/en/blog/agora-video-sdk-for-unity-quick-start-programming-guide/
https://docs.agora.io/en/Video/screensharing_unity?platform=Unity
Up to here, it is working fine. The problem is that instead os sharing my screen, I want to send a texture. To do so, I'm loading a png picture and trying to set it to the mTexture you find in the second link. It seems to be working on my computer, but it is like it doesn't arrive to the target computer.
How can I send a texture properly?
Thanks
did you copy every line of the code from the example as is? You may not want to do the ReadPixel part since this reads the screen. You may just read the raw data from your input texture and send it with the PushVideoFrame every update.
Our aim is to show portait video (vertical orientation in terms of TokBox) without black areas right and leftside after archiving. Now it looks like landscape with black areas on right and left side.
We are using php server and android client for streaming.
Our steps to convert live stream in video on demand through archieving are:
start session
update stream with the parameter layoutClassList = verticalPresentation (php library)
start archieving
live stream is on -> create subsriber and watch the stream. IMPORTANT! The stream has no black areas and has CORRECT presentation on subsriber side!
stop archieving
waiting TokBox upload archieving file to Amazon s3 bucket -> the file ALREADY contains black areas right-leftside. WRONG! (please watch the video on link for better understanding https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/edtv-dev1-input/46176492/9f26ef23-aee6-42f2-8c51-d8e2685abcc9/archive.mp4 )
processing the file
Are thereabove the correct steps to achieve the goal - get video file without black areas (in portrait orientation)? Are we missing anything?
Is archieving process on TokBox sensitive to horizontal/vertical presentation? is it possible to archive the video in vertical orientation?
UPDATE: What we wanted was not composed, but INDIVIDUAL stream! TokBox creates zip file, but Amazon AWS was able to transcode it and get the correct result both in portrait and landscape orientations.
NOTE: As a default result file on Amazon AWS after Individual stream archiving is *.zip (json + video file in it). The trascoder we used gave us video without sound. So we added lambda that unzipped the file. Now everything is ok, but took a lot of time and headache.
Tokbox developer here
For composed archiving, the only two options currently available for output resolution are 640x480 and 1280x720. Trying to fit a portrait video into a canvas of the available resolutions will result in the video you are seeing.
Possible solutions:
Use the custom layout control [1]: you can override the "object-fit" property to "cover". This may not result in exactly what you want, since the output resolution will still be 640x480 or 1280x720, but the video will occupy the whole canvas, at the expense of cropping the top and bottom part. See [2]
The best solution in my opinion is to use "individual stream archiving", where the resolution will be kept as the original, and you get a file per stream. Please check [3]
https://tokbox.com/developer/guides/archiving/layout-control.html
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/object-fit
https://tokbox.com/developer/rest/#start_archive
How can we get URL within the zip created by opentok which was uploaded in s3
I am currently testing a DSC-HX400. While I am able to do almost everything I need to with the camera there are a couple of items that are not exposed via the API that have frustrated my efforts.
1) The camera does not seem to offer an option, via the API or the camera itself, to capture images in RAW format. It does offer standard & fine JPEG format but both of those are leaving artifacts in the image that become extremely noticeable when you zoom in with an image editor. Is there a way to get the camera to capture RAW images? I do not need the SDK to return the data just to save it out to the card. If getting the RAW data is impossible has anyone found an inventive way to clean up the artifacts?
2) The camera supports both still shoot and movie mode but the API will only expose the mode that I am currently in. It makes it impossible to transition between still to movie mode (to allow recording) from the API but I can do that same transition by pressing a single button on the camera. Once I am recording a movie the API will allow me to transition back to still mode (by cancelling recording). Is there plans to support the ability to trigger a movie recording via the API if you are in a still capture mode (Seeing the firmware already supports this functionality)?
Answers to the questions below:
If the camera cannot capture RAW images, the API will not be able to either. I do not know of a way to capture RAW images but can only comment with regards to the API as I am not an expert on usage of the camera itself.
You can change between still and movie mode by using the "setShootMode" API.
I am using Projekktor to display video, but if someone is using, say, an iPhone I want to send out a smaller video than the full 1080p that might be sent to a browser.
Is there a built-in way to do this, or do I need to do a user-agent check and create a playlist based on the device manually?
You can configure Projekktor to fetch a specific video file depending on the dimensions of the video display.
To do so you need to provide multiple video video files with different resolutions for each format you want to deliver and set a "quality" property for each of them.
To alter the dimensions/quality mapping you have to set the "playbackQualities" config option
The whole logic is described in detail over here.
I am using the Python SDK to upload videos on dmcloud.net.
Now I want to give the user of my application the possibility to choose a thumbnail to the video he uploaded. How can I generate different thumbnails from an uploaded video on dmcloud.net.
Thanks.
Through the SDK, you can update the video thumbnail using the set_thumbnail method of the Media API. You have two options:
Specify a URL to a new thumbnail
Specify a timecode, which is a time offset within the video
For your end-users, provide a way to let them specify a URL or an offset (verify it's an offset that's appropriate for the video's duration). If you're using a custom player, you can probably let them choose an offset visually by pausing the player on their frame of choice and then extracting a time offset from your player for the dmcloud API call.
If you choose to set a thumbnail by timecode (offset), the SDK call would look like this:
cloudkey.media.set_thumbnail(id, timecode)
SDK Link: http://www.dmcloud.net/doc/api/python-sdk.html#media-object