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Author SHA1 Message Date
Benoit Bolsee
a8a99a628f BGE: add audio/video synchronization capability to VideoTexture
Add optional parameter to VideoTexture.Texture refresh() method
to specify timestamp (in seconds from start of movie) of the frame
to be loaded. This value is passed down to image source and for
VideoFFmpeg source, it is used instead of current time to load
the frame from the video file.

When combined with an audio actuator, it can be used to synchronize
the sound and the image: specify the same video file in the sound
actuator and use the KX_SoundActuator time attribute as timestamp
to refresh: the frame corresponding to the sound will be loaded:

GameLogic.video.refresh(True, soundAct.time)
2010-02-07 19:18:00 +00:00
Benoit Bolsee
6a51ba54cd VideoTexture: new ImageRender class for Render To Texture
The new class VideoTexture.ImageRender() is available to perform
render to texture in the GE.

Constructor:

  VideoTexture.ImageRender(scene,cam)
    cam  : camera object that will be used for the render.
           It must be an inactive camera.
    scene: reference to the scene that will be rendered.
           The camera must be part of that scene.
  Returns an object that can be used as a source of a VideoTexture.Texture object

Methods: none

Attributes:

  background: 
     4-tuple representing the background color of the rendering
     as RGBA color components, each component being an integer 
     between 0 and 255. 
     Default value = [0,0,255,255] (=saturated blue)
     Note: athough the alpha component can be specified, it is not
           supported at the moment, the alpha channel of the rendered
           texture will always be 255. You can however introduce an
           alpha channel by appending a FilterBlueScreen() filter, it
           will set the alpha to 0 (transparent) on all pixels that were
           not rendered.

  capsize:
     2-tuple representing the size of the render area as [x,y] number of pixels.
     Default value = largest rectangle with power of 2 dimensions that fits in the canvas 
     You may want to reduce the render area to increase performance. For example,
     a render area of [256,128] is probably sufficient to implement a car inner mirror.
     For best performance, use power of 2 dimensions and don't set any filter: this
     allows direct transfer between the GPU frame buffer and texture memory
     without going through the host.

  alpha: 
     Boolean indicating if the render alpha channel should be copied to the texture.
     Default value: False
     Experimental, do not use.

  whole:
     Boolean indicating if the entire canvas should be used for the rendering. 
     Default value: False
     Note: There is no reason to set this attribute to True: the rendering will
           in any case be scaled down to the largest rectangle with power of 2
           dimensions before transfering to the texture.

Attributes inherited from the ImageBase class:

  image : image binary data, read-only
  size  : [x,y] size of the texture, read-only
  scale : set to True for fast scale down in case the render area dimensions are not power of 2
  flip  : set to True for vertical flip. 
  filter: set a post-processing filter on the render.

Notes:

* Aspect Ratio
For consistent results in Blender and Blenderplayer, the same aspect ratio used
by Blender to draw the camera viewport (Scene(F10)->Format tab->Size X/Size Y) 
is also used during the rendering. You can control the portion of the scene that
will be rendered by "looking through the camera": the zone inside the outer dotted 
rectangle will be rendered to the texture.
In order to reproduce the scene without X/Y distortion, you must apply the texture
on an object or portion of object that has the same aspect ratio.

* Order of rendering
The rendereing is performed when you call the refresh() method of the parent 
Texture object. This happens outside the normal frame rendering and will have no 
effect on it.
However, if you want to use ImageViewport and ImageRender at the same time, be 
sure to refresh the viewport texture before the render texture because the latter
will destroy the frame buffer that is used by the former to update the texture.

* Scene status
The meshes are not updated during the render to texture: the rendered texture
is one frame late to the rendered frame with regards to mesh deformation.

* Example:

  cont = GameLogic.getCurrentController()
  # object that receives the texture
  obj = contr.getOwner()
  scene = GameLogic.getCurrentScene()
  # camera used for the render
  tvcam = scene.getObjectList()['OBtvcam']
  # assume obj has some faces UV assigned to tv.png
  matID = VideoTexture.materialID(obj, 'IMtv.png')
  GameLogic.tv = VideoTexture.Texture(obj, matID)
  GameLogic.tv.source = VideoTexture.ImageRender(scene,tvcam)
  GameLogic.tv.source.capsize = [256,256]
  # to render the texture, just call GameLogic.tv.refresh(True) on each frame.

You can download a demo game (with a video file) here:

  http://home.scarlet.be/~tsi46445/blender/VideoTextureDemo.zip

For those who have already downloaded the demo, you can just update the blend file:

  http://home.scarlet.be/~tsi46445/blender/VideoTextureDemo.blend
2008-11-26 17:47:42 +00:00
Benoit Bolsee
7d63f5a7fe VideoTexture: fix compile error with GLint in ImageViewport under osx. 2008-11-02 18:31:54 +00:00
Benoit Bolsee
a8c4eef326 VideoTexture module.
The only compilation system that works for sure is the MSVC project files. I've tried my best to
update the other compilation system but I count on the community to check and fix them.
 
This is Zdeno Miklas video texture plugin ported to trunk. 
The original plugin API is maintained (can be found here http://home.scarlet.be/~tsi46445/blender/blendVideoTex.html)
EXCEPT for the following:

The module name is changed to VideoTexture (instead of blendVideoTex).

A new (and only) video source is now available: VideoFFmpeg()
You must pass 1 to 4 arguments when you create it (you can use named arguments):

VideoFFmpeg(file) : play a video file
VideoFFmpeg(file, capture, rate, width, height) : start a live video capture

file:
In the first form, file is a video file name, relative to startup directory.
It can also be a URL, FFmpeg will happily stream a video from a network source.
In the second form, file is empty or is a hint for the format of the video capture.
In Windows, file is ignored and should be empty or not specified.
In Linux, ffmpeg supports two types of device: VideoForLinux and DV1394. 
The user specifies the type of device with the file parameter:
   [<device_type>][:<standard>]
   <device_type> : 'v4l' for VideoForLinux, 'dv1394' for DV1394; default to 'v4l'
   <standard>    : 'pal', 'secam' or 'ntsc', default to 'ntsc'
The driver name is constructed automatically from the device types:
   v4l   : /dev/video<capture>
   dv1394: /dev/dv1394/<capture>
If you have different driver name, you can specify the driver name explicitely 
instead of device type. Examples of valid file parameter:
   /dev/v4l/video0:pal
   /dev/ieee1394/1:ntsc
   dv1394:ntsc
   v4l:pal
   :secam

capture: 
Defines the index number of the capture source, starting from 0. The first capture device is always 0.
The VideoTexutre modules knows that you want to start a live video capture when you set this parameter to a number >= 0. Setting this parameter < 0 indicates a video file playback. Default value is -1.

rate: 
the capture frame rate, by default 25 frames/sec

width: 
height: 
Width and height of the video capture in pixel, default value 0.
In Windows you must specify these values and they must fit with the capture device capability. 
For example, if you have a webcam that can capture at 160x120, 320x240 or 640x480, 
you must specify one of these couple of values or the opening of the video source will fail.
In Linux, default values are provided by the VideoForLinux driver if you don't specify width and height.

Simple example
**************
1. Texture definition script:

import VideoTexture

contr = GameLogic.getCurrentController()
obj = contr.getOwner()
if not hasattr(GameLogic, 'video'):
	matID = VideoTexture.materialID(obj, 'MAVideoMat')
	GameLogic.video = VideoTexture.Texture(obj, matID)
	GameLogic.vidSrc = VideoTexture.VideoFFmpeg('trailer_400p.ogg')
	# Streaming is also possible:
	#GameLogic.vidSrc = VideoTexture.VideoFFmpeg('http://10.32.1.10/trailer_400p.ogg')
	GameLogic.vidSrc.repeat = -1
	# If the video dimensions are not a power of 2, scaling must be done before
	# sending the texture to the GPU. This is done by default with gluScaleImage()
	# but you can also use a faster, but less precise, scaling by setting scale
	# to True. Best approach is to convert the video offline and set the dimensions right.
	GameLogic.vidSrc.scale = True
	# FFmpeg always delivers the video image upside down, so flipping is enabled automatically
	#GameLogic.vidSrc.flip = True

if contr.getSensors()[0].isPositive():
	GameLogic.video.source = GameLogic.vidSrc
	GameLogic.vidSrc.play()


2. Texture refresh script:

obj = GameLogic.getCurrentController().getOwner()
if hasattr(GameLogic, 'video') != 0:
  GameLogic.video.refresh(True)

You can download this demo here: 
http://home.scarlet.be/~tsi46445/blender/VideoTextureDemo.blend
http://home.scarlet.be/~tsi46445/blender/trailer_400p.ogg
2008-10-31 22:35:52 +00:00