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For anyone wiring live video output from one program into another on one computer. It collects what the Spout and Syphon repository files say about publishing frames and finding a server, with licence lines quoted file by file. Documentation only; nothing was installed or run, and the Spout receiver side is a named gap.
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Sharing live video frames between your own programs with Spout (Windows) and Syphon (Mac): a documentation reading
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For anyone wiring live video output from one program into another on one computer. It collects what the Spout and Syphon repository files say about publishing frames and finding a server, with licence lines quoted file by file. Documentation only; nothing was installed or run, and the Spout receiver side is a named gap.
Useful starting points
- Spout is described for Windows and Syphon for Mac OS X, so the first decision is which one your operating system uses.
- Syphon's headers say the published texture is copied, so your program can change it once the publish call returns.
- Treat Spout changelog entries as history, not as a list of current features.
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