hey all -
okay, here’s my backstory:
i’m trying to create a really really dynamic remote interface for my vvvv-based home automation system
i have a number of android tablets I’ve placed around the house, and I thought the easiest way to interface with vvvv would be over a locally-served webpage. just open up chrome on each tablet and that’s that
PROBLEM: i don’t know css or javascript so I’m stuck.
then i find henrik’s vvveb lib (from 2010) that’s EXACTLY the sort of thing I’m looking for:
AJAX and an mjpeg streamer!
so I think, why not just make the whole interface ONE IMAGE right out of a Renderer with an HTML image map thrown over it?! Dynamic animations! Tweening! This is gonna be awesome! AND SO EASY!
PROBLEM: the fps coming out of the mpegstreamer is TERRIBLE. absolutely TERRIBLE. what gives?!
I take a look and it’s:
quote:
Renderer → DX9Texture → AsString(EX9.Texture) → Add(String)(To Throw a little HTTP header on there to, I’m guessing, make the MIME type happy)-> TCP(Network Server String)
A clever and wonderful setup, but VVVV gets INCREDIBLY choppy trying to handle even a 400x400 stream at 15fps
There’s this forum thread from 2012 about elliotwoods retiring the AsString(EX9.Texture) node:
But, even the girlpower Network_Streaming.v4p patch is INCREDIBLY choppy.
Is this just a limitation of vvvv?
Is the AsRaw or AsString node to blame? The tcp node?
Is there a better method to accomplish this post-2010?
Any brainstorming?
Thanks!
(Right now I’m looking into having ffmpeg stream an mjpeg of the Renderer window and THAT’s proving problematic too.)