4k Spout / GL texture over network?

[antithing]

Hi, and thank you for making this code available.

My use case is the following:

Capture 4 x GLuint textures simultaneously using Spout
Send each to a different machine over a network.
Receive each, and stream via spout to a third party application on each machine.

Can this be done with this framework?

Is there any example code that does a similar thing?

Thank you.

[MartinPulec]

Hi @antithing,

if I understand the setup correctly, it is quite easy - the source will be one machine (sender) and 4 receivers (recv1-4), correct? If so, then:

sender$ uv -t spout:name=texture1 -c <compression> recv1
sender$ uv -t spout:name=texture2 -c <compression> recv2
sender$ uv -t spout:name=texture3 -c <compression> recv3
sender$ uv -t spout:name=texture4 -c <compression> recv4

recv1-recv4$ uv -d gl:spout:hide_window

The above is just a kick-off, I didn't intentionally specify the compression since it hugely depends on the actual scenario - if it is 4x 4K picture, you'd perhaps need some HW-accelerated codec unless only a small frame-rate is requested.

[antithing]

Thank you! Very helpful. I'll try this.