January 31st 2022

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Meeting ID: 819 2014 9387
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Topics covered

• Becoming familiar with the nodebrowser
  • Browsing by category  
  • Browsing by filtering for specific terms 
  • NodeBrowser Documentation: https://thegraybook.vvvv.org/reference/hde/the_nodebrowser.html

• Finding Help
  • Press F1 on a selected node to open its helppatch
  • Press F1 with no node sele cted to open the HelpBrowser
  • Shortcuts are listed in the HelpBrowser but also in the graybook
  • https://thegraybook.vvvv.org/reference/hde/keyboard-shortcuts.html

• Becoming familiar with IOBoxes
  • Create by starting a link from a pin, then middleclick 
  • IOBoxes Documentation: https://thegraybook.vvvv.org/reference/language/ioboxes.html

• NuGet packages
  • Nodes are organized in packages   
  • NuGet packages can be downloaded from nuget.org   
  • A curated list of NuGets created for vvvv: https://thegraybook.vvvv.org/reference/libraries/overview.html   
  • Referecing libraries Documentation: https://thegraybook.vvvv.org/reference/libraries/referencing.html

• Video   
  • For video input and playback reference the VL.Video.MediaFoundation pack   
  • This supports all modern cameras with MediaFoundation drivers (not DirectShow drivers!)   
  • Choose Skia/Stride version of nodes depending on used drawing backend

• TextureFX   
  • Stride.Textures has a large number of nodes for image generation and manipulation that are referred to as “TextureFX”   
  • Nodes are organized in categories: Source, Filter, Utils   
  • Writing Custom TextureFX Documentation: https://thegraybook.vvvv.org/reference/libraries/3d/texturefx.html  

• Audio    As of writing this, the VL.Audio pack is still experimental and needs to be installed separately   
  • It supports two distinct driver models: Wasapi (Windows default) and ASIO (professional audio gear)
  • As of now, audio input is only available with ASIO drivers. Generic drivers are available, see Audio Documentation: https://thegraybook.vvvv.org/reference/libraries/audio.html

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