garageCube

[yves@garagecube]

Well, you can create ImageUnits and share them between application. You can also render very easily a Quartz Composer scene into an OpenGL context.

Now AFAIK you cannot pass directly a PBuffer from one process to another.

[eskatonia]

someone else asked a very similar question today on the quartzcomposer list:

Is there any way to use a core image patch to get the current frame buffer? I would like to get the current frame from my VJ software, and apply qc effects to it.

pol answered:

No this is not possible, unless the VJ software passes its frame buffer as an image to a QC composition


Exactly how would you pass the image if the VJ software is already rendering into a PBuffer?


pBuffers can be passed between various graphics technologies: if the VJ app produces a CVOpenGLBuffer (i.e. CoreVideo wrapper around a pBuffer), it can be passed to QC

couldn't you then use these CVOpenGLBuffer's to pass video on the graphics card between any two programs? (as long as they both had a send/recieve function as above)....