Showing another program in a virtual world

[Frank Verberne]

The eventual solution I have chosen is to use the VideoCamera.dle to get the feed from a webcam connected to the computer running Vizard. That feed is projected on a texquad in Vizard. The camera is pointed to another computer, on which the Authorware program runs. Simple, but it works.

While working on the VLC screen capture capabilities, we were thinking about how to send that live feed over a network to the computer running Vizard. Furthermore, we were not sure how to 'catch' that feed in Vizard. I guess using sockets would be a solution (although I have never used sockets before to receive video). If anyone has a sample script on how to get a live screen capture from VLC (or from a webcam or whatever), I'm still very interested. Always good to learn more!