how to play video in the background? I have a hdmi to hdmi cable connected from the pc to tv. I would like to play. All is working and that I can play video from my pc to tv but the problem is I need to use my computer while the video is still playing from my pc to tv in order to do other work on my computer. Is there a way to play the video in the background using my browser to play the video?
I don't know which operating system you're using but you should be able to enable a multi-monitor display. It's under display and appearance in windows. This will allow you to use the two screens for independent reasons.
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im working on a windows app that needs to "hear" the desktop's audio, so the user runs it in the background and plays a game for example, the application would receive the sounds of that game, kind of like a screen recorder, but for audio only
It seems that Windows automatically stops my audio play when switching to another user. Is there any way where I can keep audio playing when windows switch to another user?
I have a video device that exposes an MJPEG stream via a URL. For windows there are utility apps that can "create" a system webcam device useable by Skype or any other application based on the URL this video device exposes.
Example: smart phone is broadcasting MJPEG URL. Windows computer can run a utility app to "create" a system webcam based off of the MJPEG stream and then that webcam be used via Skype. The video shown is what the phone is broadcasting.
I'm trying to do the same but for my Mac. I can't seem to find any utility that creates a system webcam from an MJPEG stream. Googling isn't helping either, I'm just not finding a solid solution or anything I recognize as a solution.
Thanks!
I've had success with obs-studio and its vlc and virtual camera plugins.
You can add a "Vlc Video Source" and then click "Start Virtual Camera".
If you want to use it as a web-cam I just recommend that you reduce the "Network Caching (ms)" setting in the vlc video source settings as much as possible.
The hard-coded minimal value is 100ms, you can reduce it by changing this line: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/blob/7217671eb0812681a9f83858bb02065b671673e7/plugins/vlc-video/vlc-video-source.c#L1079
There is still significant delay with this method regardless, but it's better than not having it working at all.
Webcam lets others view either still pictures or motion video of a user or other object in front of it. I want to configure Webcam in a way that it start capturing desktop screen instead of what is in front of it.
I want to manipulate desktop screen captured through Webcam using FFMPEG library. Such as:
ffmpeg -f dshow -i video="Integrated Webcam" -f mp4 cam_stream.mp4
I want to use this same application to capture my Desktop Screen that will be possible just in that case when Webcam will be able to capture my Desktop Screen instead. So above command will start recording what Webcam will be capturing that I want it to capture my desktop screen.
Note: I know other ways to capture, record or stream desktop screen but I want to achieve it through Webcam.
What I tried so far: I tried some Fake/Virtual Webcam software (manycam, sparkocam etc.) but I don't think they fulfil what I exactly want.
P.S. I posted the same question in another community but didn't get any response.
Please guide me if there is any way to achieve this? Thanks
Solution to this problem would be to capture desktop directly by using ffmpeg.
Follow the link Capture Desktop using ffmpeg
Ive been searching all day for a similar thing.
Ive found this: https://streamshark.io/blog/using-obs-as-a-virtual-webcam-on-windows-and-macos/ With this software you can create a virtual cam that can utilize a portion of your screen as a fake webcam output.
Exactly what I need and what I think the OP is talking about.
So for future ref, bumped.
(Why do I need this for instance?: I dont have a smartphone, but a virtualbox android. I want to install the windows desktop app versions of certain apps. For which I need to "hold the phone (virtualbox) in front of a computer screen (main os)"...
On this forum see this post on capturing the desktop:
Capture Windows screen with ffmpeg
If I understand well, you also want to add views from your webcam. The above mentioned link on capturing the desktop shows how to use dshow. So the desktop and the webcam are both input streams for your output mp4.
I suggest to add your webcam as input:
-f dshow
-i <webcam>
Next, e.g. use the overlay filter to put both the desktop and the webcam on one view.
I have to code an Windows Phone 7 application which playback videos from YouTube. That's kind of normal, but the first approach it's to playback them in the same way as MetroTube does it (see http://www.metrotubeapp.com/ ) (for example you can playback the youtube video without going to fullscreen and also have playback controls)
I do not have any idea of how to achieve this so, perhaps an embedded page based on You tube video integration but not quite sure yet.
Any idea of how to create this very flexible YouTube player for WP7?