Getting the colour of a video texture

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I am using a streaming video as a diffuse texture, and I’d like to detect when this video user is no longer streaming. When the stream is off, the video becomes a solid colour - (currently this is configured to be black, but could be any colour).

I’d like an efficient way of getting the current colour of the video texture over a small area such as 10x10 pixels, so I can detect if the video is streaming or not.

Ie, if the average colour is 0,0,0 then I know it’s currently off.

I’ve briefly looked into using readPixels on the diffuse texture but didn’t have much luck.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,
Tom

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Welcome aboard!

Using readPixel should work:

You shouldn’t do it every frame, however, as retrieving data from the GPU can be a slow process. But for your use case, I guess that doing it only a few times per second is enough (or even one time per second).

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Thanks @Evgeni_Popov! I’ll give it a go and report back.
Thanks!

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This is working well. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

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