Video Feed and Cursor Feed Tutorial

[Multibocks]

So different resolutions buy cursor responds as though they are the same? Maybe a video of this would help....

[JackBurton]

Can you please start your guide with a discription of why we would want this feature? What it does. You want to change your readers minds.

Some great uses i know for the Video Feed Features

1. Minimap Sharing
Great for sharing important slave minimaps that track mining, herbs and other things

2. Global Cooldowns
Have five hotboxes next to each other showing showing the global cooldowns of each character. hopefuly this is all in real time.

3. Real Time Updates
Show the targets of each toon in real time. No one to two second waits for the data to go back and forth to the servers and to the clients

4. Click based actions.
See the ground where the slaves mouse is for click based AoE. Use the cursor acurately to activate ground spawns. Remotely mine a node or pick up herbs.

5. Conserve Screen Real Estate
For those of us that dont have 3 or more screen to display our toons on having only the important pieces of information on our center screen is great. Think Titan, Broker, or FuBar.

6. Farming
Track # of certain items you've gathered from looting. Drop items like cloth or Volatiles on Jamba Item bars and video feed them to your primary screen. it will show the quantity of those items across all your toons.

anyways this is what comes to mind right away. a great video of what this does here.

[Alge]

Can you please start your guide with a discription of why we would want this feature? What it does. You want to change your readers minds.

I'm not really a salesman. I'll leave that to those more that way inclined.

Having said that, you provide a great list of use cases for video feeds and cursor feeds. MiRai's video is what first got me excited about using these features, so thanks for providing a link to it.

[Alge]

So different resolutions buy cursor responds as though they are the same? Maybe a video of this would help....

See the video linked in JackBurton's post below yours. Notice how the the video feeds of the minimaps on the slaves look the same as those on the main? If I understand things correctly, trying to do that with your setup would result in very low-res minimaps because the windows supplying those feeds are small. With the setup I describe above the feeds are at the same resolution as the main window (as they are in MiRai's video) because they are as coming from full-size windows.

Unfortunately, that means you lose the little windows along the bottom of your screen (they are now large and behind your main window). But fortunately (or by Lax's great design), you can recreate them using video feeds. That is much of what I describe in my guide.

That's about the best explanation I can give you. Maybe someone else can have a go at making it clearer.

[crowdx]

See the video linked in JackBurton's post below yours. Notice how the the video feeds of the minimaps on the slaves look the same as those on the main? If I understand things correctly, trying to do that with your setup would result in very low-res minimaps because the windows supplying those feeds are small. With the setup I describe above the feeds are at the same resolution as the main window (as they are in MiRai's video) because they are as coming from full-size windows.

Unfortunately, that means you lose the little windows along the bottom of your screen (they are now large and behind your main window). But fortunately (or by Lax's great design), you can recreate them using video feeds. That is much of what I describe in my guide.

That's about the best explanation I can give you. Maybe someone else can have a go at making it clearer.

So on video feeds, is performance affected due to having full size windows sitting behind the main screen? Also how does the number of video feeds affect performance?

[Lax]

So on video feeds, is performance affected due to having full size windows sitting behind the main screen? Also how does the number of video feeds affect performance?

The majority of ISBoxer users are already using full size windows. The window layouts typically scale them down from the full size, while leaving them rendering at full size. So there will not be a noticeable change in performance from the Window Layout change unless he is rendering the full size of the screen now, where previously a small part of the screen was cut for the other windows.

Video feed performance is likely to be different for different people, probably with a CPU bottleneck. This question is something that will be answered over time as people tell us about their experience.

Also, some documentation on the feature: http://isboxer.com/wiki/Video_Feed
For anyone who wants to try out video feeds, using the in-game interface as explained in that link is going to be the quickest and easiest way to get started (e.g. quickly add a feed showing the minimap in another window, while you play, without having to run ISBoxer, figure out how to set something up, export, etc). The advantage to the method in this thread is additional control and flexibility.

[crowdx]

The majority of ISBoxer users are already using full size windows. The window layouts typically scale them down from the full size, while leaving them rendering at full size. So there will not be a noticeable change in performance from the Window Layout change unless he is rendering the full size of the screen now, where previously a small part of the screen was cut for the other windows.

Video feed performance is likely to be different for different people, probably with a CPU bottleneck. This question is something that will be answered over time as people tell us about their experience.

Also, some documentation on the feature: http://isboxer.com/wiki/Video_Feed
For anyone who wants to try out video feeds, using the in-game interface as explained in that link is going to be the quickest and easiest way to get started (e.g. quickly add a feed showing the minimap in another window, while you play, without having to run ISBoxer, figure out how to set something up, export, etc). The advantage to the method in this thread is additional control and flexibility.

My thought goes to my laptop which I currently use for some light Wow when I am watching tv and so wondering if it was worth looking at feeds for it. From the sound of it the feeds would kill the laptop cpu which is already getting maxed with the regular window setups.

[Alge]

So on video feeds, is performance affected due to having full size windows sitting behind the main screen? Also how does the number of video feeds affect performance?

I can run 4 full screen feeds, 4 small feeds and a 1/9 screen size cursor feed all without any problems. In fact, while I was setting this up I changed from 30/15 FPS to 60/30 and haven't had any issues. I'm planning to add some more feeds and will post if/when I run into issues.