On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 18:25 +0300, Bèrto ëd Sèra wrote: > Hi! > > we are organizing a live videostream from a conference. We will use > Linux (actually Mac OsX, since everyone there is on Mac). MacOS X is quite a bit different from Linux! But you can install Linux on a Mac. > I was wondering if you can suggest the easiest setup. We should have a > phys. videomixer, but it would be nice to also have a soft mix. We use a hardware audio mixer together with a software video mixer, dvswitch <http://alioth.debian.org/projects/dvswitch>. Several of us are involved in developing dvswitch. It currently runs on Linux but it might be portable to MacOS X if its X server supports the Xvideo extension. We would probably accept a patch that adds support for MacOS X in a clean way. > My main residual problem is that some of the people will be virtually > present on skype... is there anyway I can grab a skype video/audio sig > and mix it in with local cams? I don't use Skype but I'm aware that it encrypts/obfuscates what it does so you probably can't feed it in directly. However, there are various software and hardware tools for capturing graphics from the screen or a window, and for capturing audio output. I don't know what's available for MacOS X. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. - Anne Morrow Lindberg
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