Not receiving any Spout input

[Øyvind Vevang]

Hello,

I'm trying to use output from Magic Music Visuals (https://magicmusicvisuals.com/) as a Spout source in Lightjams, but it only says "0 fps / inactive. No active grid is using this media" on the media monitor, even though I have the media active on a parameter. I have tried using webcam as an input the same way, and that works. I have also installed Spout itself and run the SpoutReceiver demo, which receives the spout data fine. (It says "DirectX 11 : 791x418 [BGRA]" in the information box right now.) 

Magic supports Spout v1 and Spout v2, I've tried both with the same results. I also tried with the SpoutSender demo from Spout itself, this has the exact same results too.

My machine is a fairly new Dell G5 15 gaming laptop, with a Nvidia GTX1050Ti graphics card. I've pinned Lightjams to the Nvidia graphics card when running to see if that had any impact.

Any idea what else I can try to get it working?

[Mathieu]

Hi

>> No active grid is using this media" 

Makes sure to assign your media (Spout) to a grid's background and then make sure this grid is active.

[Øyvind Vevang]

OK, that was easy!! Sorry, I really missed that this was the way to do it :) (I was fumbling about with the "color palette extracted from media" manipulator instead, but this is way better.)

Thank you SO much for a great product and for this incredibly quick reply :-) Hopefully it can at least help someone else who might wonder about the same thing.

Regards

Øyvind 

[Øyvind Vevang]

Just to expand on this a bit, I guess what confused me was the fact that it doesn't seem possible to use Spout input as media for the "Ambilight" example project and that type of media HSI extraction: https://www.lightjams.com/video.html

Or am I wrong? Is there some other way in addition to the background media?

Regards

Øyvind

[isaac]

Hi Øyvind,

You should be able to use the Spout input as a background for the Ambilight sample project,

What step of the process are you having problems with?

[Mathieu]

You can use any media for the ambilight. The media just needs to be "active" by being used as a grid's background. When inactive, the Spout input is disconnected to avoid wasting resources. It's the same thing when playing a video file. When not in use, the video stops. The exception is with a live input like a webcam. Since it's slow to connect (1 second or more), it always stays connected. 

[Øyvind Vevang]

Finally had some time to look at this again. (Played 2 shows with lightjams this weekend, so I had to focus on getting that up and running first! Will post videos later...) Anyway, thanks for your input - I see that I do get some relevant action when setting it as a background to the ambient light grids as well now, yes. I was just confused with regards to the https://www.lightjams.com/video.html walkthrough, which only talks about those 9 color zones, not the background bit. Thanks again to the both of you!

[Mathieu]

You're right. The Ambilight is usually used with a capture device. I'll add a note if it's used with another media type.