Hi,
I would like to share the grabbed frame of the ZED to several programs, with as much performance as possible, e.g. I open a connection to the camera in a cpp application, grab grab the frame, but then need to share it to other cpp or python applications (more than 1 other app).
One simple way is to write the frame to the file system, i.e. the main application which owns the connection to the camera write the frame on the file system and consuming applications read it (read only) whenever they need it and at their own frequency. But 1) it is slow, 2) I am using a SSD and I do not want to ruin its life cycle by doing crazy frequent writes on it.
I have explored named pipes but they block the push application and once the data is read by one application on the right end of the pipe the data is gone and not available anymore for a second consuming app for instance.
I would like to avoid networking type of libraries which are usually slow and tedious to use, but happy to be proven wrong.
Ideally I would need a method to write frame files in memory, but in a persistent and non-blocking way, i.e. not named pipes but quite close to it.
Or I would need a magic SDK function which enables me to get the ZED frames across several apps?
My 2 programming languages here are Cpp and Python really.
thanks for your help/ideas