Hi Guys,<br><br>My name is Nathan.<br><br>I am building a <b>Fully OpenSource 3D Cinema Camera-Rig</b> as part of the <a href="http://www.apertus.org">Apertus</a> "Open Source Cinema" project.<br><br>I am writing to introduce myself, with hopes to muster up some enthusiasm for the project; and also to seek assistance in the development of a tool, built on GStreamer- for monitoring the stereoscopic rig during production.<br>
<br>As I do not have any experience with program development, I am here to see if:<br>a) this tool is easy/difficult to create, and <br>b) if anyone is interested helping with it's development.<br><br>The basic function of the tool (<i>"S3DView"</i>) is as follows:<br>
<br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">2 x synchronized IP cameras send 2 x unicast rtsp streams over the network<br></div><div style="margin-left: 80px;">rtsp://<a href="http://192.168.0.8:554">192.168.0.8:554</a> (left)<br>
rtsp://<a href="http://192.168.0.9:554">192.168.0.9:554</a> (right)<br></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><br><i>"S3DView"</i> takes the 2 streams and displays them in one of 4 ways:<br><br></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;">
1. Side-by-Side<br></div>
<div style="margin-left: 80px;">Left image is squashed 50% and positioned to the left<br>Right image is squashed 50% and positioned to the right<br><br></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;">2. Overlay<br></div><div style="margin-left: 80px;">
Both images are displayed- one overlaid on the other, with 50% opacity<br><br></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;">3. Left Only<br></div><div style="margin-left: 80px;">Left image only is show (with unobtrusive text overlay - "left")<br>
<br></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;">3. Right Only<br></div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><div style="margin-left: 40px;">Right image only is show (with unobtrusive text overlay - "right")<br></div></div><div style="margin-left: 80px;"><br></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;">
These four display modes could then be switched on the fly using shortcuts for example:<br><br></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;">Side-by-Side: Up Arrow <br>Overlay: Down Arrow<br>Left Only: Left Arrow<br>Right Only: Right Arrow<br>
</div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><br>The window should be able to optionally go into "fullscreen" mode and retain the ability to switch between the 4 viewing modes.<br></div><br><br>Until this point, i have been attempting to use VLC's mosaic to do this, but very quickly have I realized that GStreamer looks to be far better suited to the job. <br>
<br>Unfortunately, it is beyond my scope to develop the <i>"S3DView" </i>tool myself- if anyone is interested in becoming involved, or if anyone has any questions / ideas / input<i>-- </i> please let me know<i>.<br>
<br></i>Thanks for your time.<br><br>Kind regards,<br>Nathan Clark<i><br></i>