Inputting a livestream to touchdesigner - web render, web browser, stream

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Hi,
I’d like to input this live stream into a touch designer project. I have tried video stream input but I have not been able to figure out how to get the RTSP. I have also tried web browser and web render but the video is always blocked either by a cookie request or the video does not start playing.

https://worldcams.tv/united-states/hollywood/beach
Any advice anyone can offer would be really helpful

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Hi @Ellena,

what version of TouchDesigner are you using?
In the latest Experimental, the Web Render TOP is capable of playing youtube streams.
Easiest would be to point the Palette>Tools>webBrowser to the website you are referencing and then crop out the video frame.

cheers
Markus

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Hi thank you for getting back to me
That’s what I was hoping would work but when I do that all I see is the popup that YouTube uses to make people accept cookies. I tried other websites but the video does not immediately play

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Hi @Ellena,

strange - i get the cookie popup as expected on youtube but nothing when using the worldcams url.

cheers
Markus

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When I try just the webcam URL I get this msg have you ever encountered one like this?
Thanks,
Ellena

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Otherwise do you know how to make the website page scroll down to a specific place because then I could try a different website?

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You are not using the latest experimental. You can download them here:

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I downloaded the newest experimental after you suggested but now the web browser isn’t responding to any of the URLs I input it is just showing a black screen or saying that the search was aborted. Do you have any idea why this might be?

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Hi @Ellena,

could you post a condensed version of your project that shows this behavior?

thanks
Markus

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Example.toe (8.1 KB)
Hi,
I have attached a file with just the web browser and the intended URL to show what is happening.
Thank you

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Hi @Ellena,

strange - works perfectly fine for me:

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You get the same “An error occured” as previously?

cheers
Markus

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Hi,
For the latest experimental version, it just shows a black screen but for the version I was using originally, I would get the grey error box in place of the video on the website. I tried it on another persons touch designer on their laptop also and had the same issue

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Is there a chance that this is a licensing issue? I am using the non-commercial version of touchdesigner

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Hi @Ellena,

nope, not a license issue. Not sure what to recommend here other than making sure your drivers are up to date etc. Also try other websites or streams to make sure
What is the hardware you are running on?

cheers
Markus

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The graphics card is NVDIA GeForce GTX 1650 With Max Q design

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I have been trying different versions and for some of the livestreams I get a message saying that Adobe Flash is required have you ever had this happen?

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Hi @Ellena,

that would be the problem of the website trying to use Flash Player. Flash Player has been decommissioned in 2021 if I’m not mistaken and is not supported in chromium.

cheers
Markus

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Do you know any way to stop this?

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Hi @Ellena,

you have to use websites that do not make use of Flash Player.

cheers
Markus

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You could try looking at this site - https://html5test.com/ - and compare the what is possible on the Web Browser COMP vs your local version of chrome. My score is 528 and I have no issues with your example file. You can also add --log-severity=info to the options parameter in the Web Render TOP along with a user directory and look at the td.log file to see if it gives you any errors. The only other thing I can think of is permissions or something else, and hopefully the log file will give you information.