Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Catch the local/remote video stream, change it and replace the stream with the new video information

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Hi,

Le mardi 18 septembre 2007 �0:44 +0200, Mailing List a �it :
> Hallo,
> 
> I had looked for a videoconferencing software who I can extend. After
> a little playing with google I had found ekiga, by the way it looks
> like a very nice tool for my short view, at the moment.
> 
> What I try to do:
> 
> I will catch the local and remote video image (or video stream), than
> do some image editing with it. After that I want replace the local and
> remote video image. So I think I want to build some kind of video
> proxy.
> 
> My question is, you mean it is possible to do it just with a getter an
> a setter method in an kind of interface? So that I just can link
> different library's to test different things.
> Where is the best place in the context of  your application to do
> that? The context I thing about is, grab the image before you bring it
> up to the GUI element or directly after the stream is coming on from
> the remote site. For the locale side I thing about to grab it directly
> from the Web-Cam or also before you bring it up to the GUI element.

Modifying the display is easy, you need to look in the code for
PVideoOutputDevice and alter one of them.

Modifying the grabbed stream before sending it is not very hard either,
you could for example edit the V4L or the V4L2 plugin and modify the
picture directly there. 
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