Hi,
      Some of the students I teach in a graphics course would
like to use the ARToolkit with pre-shot video footage.

We have experimented with streaming the pre-shot video from tape
through firewire (this works fine) but can we capture the video
(then disconnect the camera) and then stream the
stored video into an app built with the ARToolkit?

Thanks,
    Aaron.
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Dr. Aaron J. Quigley             College Lecturer
B 2.13 Computer Science   e-mail:   aquigley@g ........
University College Dublin   www:      http://www.cs.ucd.ie/staff/aquigley/home/
Dublin 4, Ireland                   phone:    (+353) 1 716 2925

Hi Aaron,

I have an ARToolkit compatible AVI Input for Windows.
It uses Video For Windows and thus plays about any video.
You can have the source if you want to.

cheers,
Leif


Mark Billinghurst wrote:

>
> Hi,
>      Some of the students I teach in a graphics course would
> like to use the ARToolkit with pre-shot video footage.
>
> We have experimented with streaming the pre-shot video from tape
> through firewire (this works fine) but can we capture the video
> (then disconnect the camera) and then stream the
> stored video into an app built with the ARToolkit?
>
> Thanks,
>    Aaron.

Hi

DsVideoLib supports input from AVI files. So just call videoOpen like this:

videoOpen("inputDevice=AVI_FILE,fileName=C:/test/TestVideo.AVI"); 

Of course the path and filename should point to your file. However there
seems to be some performance issues. Sometimes the video clip freezes or
jumps.

You can read more at Thomas Pintaric's hompage:
http://www.ims.tuwien.ac.at/~thomas/dsvideolib_doc.php 

Good luck with your project.

Sune Kristensen
Master of Science
Aabogade 34
8200 Aarhus N

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Hi,
      Some of the students I teach in a graphics course would
like to use the ARToolkit with pre-shot video footage.

We have experimented with streaming the pre-shot video from tape
through firewire (this works fine) but can we capture the video
(then disconnect the camera) and then stream the
stored video into an app built with the ARToolkit?

Thanks,
    Aaron.
-- 
Dr. Aaron J. Quigley             College Lecturer
B 2.13 Computer Science   e-mail:   aquigley@g ........
University College Dublin   www:
http://www.cs.ucd.ie/staff/aquigley/home/
Dublin 4, Ireland                   phone:    (+353) 1 716 2925