real-time video manipulation with avisynth?

[thoralf]

Hi there,

being rather uneducated on this subject, I'd like to ask if it's possible to use Avisynth to manipulate a video stream in real time ...
A bit more detailed: I am planning to do some visuals for a party. My idea was to hook up a dv cam via firewire to a computer, get the output of the cam (in real time, no recording involved) and manipulate the data by using different avs scripts on them - fiddling around with colours, do some solarisation and stuff like this. The result would be thrwon at a wall by an ordinary video beamer.

Is this at all possible?

Thank you for your answers,
Thoralf.

[sh0dan]

ffdshow allows you to process video through AviSynth in realtime.

So if you can get your signal through that somehow, yes.

[thoralf]

Originally posted by sh0dan
ffdshow allows you to process video through AviSynth in realtime.

So if you can get your signal through that somehow, yes.

shodan,

thank you for your answer.
I didn't think of this possibility, but it seems to be a really elegant way of doing it ... Gotta find an answer to that "somehow", anyway :-)