display a live website

Frank V

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Sep 18, 2015, 8:25:17 AM9/18/15

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Hi there,

Anyone have a idea to display a live website in without using external input cards to capture the website or syphon ?. Must have a super stable solution without any additional computers as the system is running 24/7 without any crew in a permanent installation.

Kind regards

Frank Verbeek

Chris Ashworth

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Sep 18, 2015, 8:30:03 AM9/18/15

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Hi Frank,

If you’re not using an external input of any kind, that means it would be built in to QLab; but QLab does not have a web view built in.

If you just want to display a web window somewhere (and don’t need to do fancy stuff like adjust the geometry or animate it) you could use scripting and a browser in kiosk mode.

-C

micpool

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Sep 18, 2015, 8:47:08 AM9/18/15

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Camtwist and a browser open on the QLab computer behind the QLab

It uses syphon, but i cant see why that should be more of a problem than anything else in a 24/7 situation.

Mic

micpool

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Sep 18, 2015, 12:44:09 PM9/18/15

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Here's an example

The web page for the bus stop outside my office corner pinned onto a stock billboard image in QLab

Mic

micpool

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Sep 18, 2015, 12:49:21 PM9/18/15

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It's also worth pointing out that if the website doesn't include live video feeds then a frame rate of 1fps in Camtwist cuts down the resource requirement considerably.

Mic

Alec Sparks

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Sep 18, 2015, 3:06:24 PM9/18/15

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What about CefWithSyphon? It's a bare-bones web browser that outputs the screen over syphon. You can view the screen in QLab with a camera cue. https://github.com/vibber/CefWithSyphon

micpool

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Sep 18, 2015, 3:54:11 PM9/18/15

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Thanks Alex

That's really useful and seems to work well

Mic

sam kusnetz

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Sep 18, 2015, 7:05:56 PM9/18/15

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Cefwithsyphon is rad. But also it's somewhat unstable.

A perfect project for a young programmer to maybe dust off, update to the latest version of Chromium, etc... wouldn't you agree, Alex?

Sam

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