paper: 987 Kinect Implementation

[Hjelstrom]

Originally Posted by JesseK

If the stream is a true stream, then this may be of help ... if you can't write code/scripting to make a stream of your own, then see below. ffmpeg (on linux) may help create a stream; it's pretty versatile, but I've only used it to convert youtube videos into local files.
www.videolan.org

Otherwise, you may wind up wrapping the images and then coming up with a simple Java display that displays the latest image from the socket. We did this in 2009 & 2012. It's another layer of complexity, so I'd recommend trying to get a video stream going first.

Thanks for the pointers! Ideally we'd like to be able to take the frames that we would normally render to the viewport and send them to the dashboard. A c or c++ api that lets you just feed frames into it would be ideal. I am afraid of the cpu overhead of this but it could be a good debugging tool that you just turn off in matches. Or maybe the second cpu on the pandaboard could handle it.