Emulate Video toaster?

Has anyone been able to emulate the video toaster? or the Open Video Toaster? I would like to explore it for lightwave, toaster paint and toaster cg. It would be cool if there were a straightforward way of doing that. I'm emulating amigaOS4.1. I have the video toaster source but I looked inside it and Im clueless how to use it.

[Toni Wilen]

Hardware information does not exist. Source is software source, it does not help to know how the hardware (which is very complex) works.

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=77808 is some discussion about this problem. (dated mid 2016 or so)

[emufan]

there is still a tiny chance - without hardware emulation - if someone manages to compile
the switcher with the TOASTERLESS option

[emufan]

Originally Posted by emufan

there is still a tiny chance - without hardware emulation - if someone manages to compile
the switcher with the TOASTERLESS option

believe it or not, but it does work now

[Pyromania]

emufan is the best! He got it to work without the Amiga Video Toaster hardware!

[Sinphaltimus]

Does this "Toasterless" work in ral Amiga or just in winUAE?

[Samurai_Crow]

Originally Posted by Sinphaltimus

Does this "Toasterless" work in ral Amiga or just in winUAE?

I think it's a build option at compile time so if you've got enough CPU and RAM just go for it.

[Pyromania]

If you have not done so already don’t forget to D/L the developer docs.

http://www.discreetfx.com/DeveloperManuals.html

[Marchie]

Originally Posted by Sinphaltimus

Does this "Toasterless" work in ral Amiga or just in winUAE?

Yes, as long as you have 020, 8mb fast and 1mb chip.

[Sinphaltimus]

Well, here's the thing. Toasterless is nothing more than a demo really. Without the hardware it does nothing but allow the user to experience the GUI. There's no way to use it with say, 2 video files to do live switching and then output that to a third file (like a video editing or video recording or switcher program might allow) - so there's no emulated sources or dataflyer for the output.

It's kind of like visiting and warship museum where you can see and touch all the controls and weapons systems but they do absolutely nothing useful other than an experience of looking and touching.


I'm not criticizing, I'm sure that interests a lot of people. I was asking because if it were functional in anyway, it would be a lot more interesting to me, myself and I. That's all.

[Pyromania]

Originally Posted by Sinphaltimus

Well, here's the thing. Toasterless is nothing more than a demo really. Without the hardware it does nothing but allow the user to experience the GUI. There's no way to use it with say, 2 video files to do live switching and then output that to a third file (like a video editing or video recording or switcher program might allow) - so there's no emulated sources or dataflyer for the output.

It's kind of like visiting and warship museum where you can see and touch all the controls and weapons systems but they do absolutely nothing useful other than an experience of looking and touching.


I'm not criticizing, I'm sure that interests a lot of people. I was asking because if it were functional in anyway, it would be a lot more interesting to me, myself and I. That's all.

I agree with what you say. It's Open Source so anyone is welcome to work on it and improve it. I would love it if it keeps advancing and did more.