Re: [cgkit-user] video as a texture

[Samuel P. <sfp...@gm...>]

Sounds like the first option is what I want as I'll be rendering, anyway.
:-)

How would one go about doing this? Didn't see anything like this in the
documentation...

Thanks!
Sam

p.s. regarding the question I had posted recently about the segfault -- I've
since moved onto a different workstation and haven't had time to double back
and see if I could fix the problem. If I get to it, I'll post back here
about it.

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Matthias Baas <mat...@gm...>wrote:

> On 14.11.10 00:39, Samuel Potter wrote:
> > I was wondering if anyone had any ideas as to how to use a video as a
> > texture? Or, better, be able to "animate" what image file I'm using
> > as a source.
>
> You can set a new image name whenever you want to change a texture, but
> this will reload the file which may be too slow for smooth playback if
> the files are large.
>
> Streaming a video is not directly supported. You would have to decode
> the video yourself and replace the image data on the GLTexture object
> (using the "image" property).
> There are some initial ffmpeg wrappers in the git repository which you
> could use for decoding a video file.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Matthias -
>
>
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