glowbox/chromesyphon

ChromeSyphon

ChromeSyphon

Render any web content as a Syphon source.

This project is based on the example MacOS project included with the Chromium Embedded Framework. It is inspired by the CefWithSyphon project but includes many additional configuration options by way of a JSON file.

IMPORTANT: The Chrome Embedded Framework does not support any media codecs which require licensing. That being the case, MP3 and other commercial codecs will probably not work in ChromeSyphon. If you need to play audio you must use a free codec such as OGG, WEBM, or WAVE. The same limitation is likely true for video as well. Stick to open formats and you should have no problems.

Current Release

Download the latest release here

Note: Builds are provided as-is, this tool has not been extensively tested.

Configuration

By default the application will look for a file called config.json in the same folder with the app package.

Configuration options include:

Property	Type	Description
url	string	The URL to load at startup
content-width	integer	Width of the browser content in pixels.
content-height	integer	Height of the browser content in pixels.
window-x	integer	Horizontal position of the window at startup.
window-y	integer	Vertical position of the window at startup.
start-minimized	boolean	If true, the window will minimize to the dock at startup.
allow-window-resize	boolean	If true, the window will be resizable.
syphon-name	string	The name of the syphon source.

If you need multiple launch configurations, you may specify a different file name for the configuration JSON file via the config command line argument.

Example:

open -a ChromeSyphon.app --args -config=my-production-config.json

Building the Project

Building this project requires the Chrome Embedded Framework (which is enormous so it's not included in this repository).

To build:

1. Clone this repository.
2. Download and unzip the Mac 32 bit release from branch 1547
3. Copy the contents of the CEF zip into a folder named CEF in the root of the project
4. Open the xcode project and build it.

Credits

This project was made possible by the efforts of many other talented people:

The Syphon Framework built by Vade

Chromium Embedded Framework

chromesyphon's Issues

Need update! Sites not loading

Update the cef libraries please

Update CEF to access Web MIDI API

Any chance to have a version using a more recent CEF so we could use the Web MIDI API? Thanks

Missing ES6 Support