Many video capture devices have multiple physical inputs and some manufacturers use and input to set things like PAL/NTSC or colorspace or even resolution. The only way to really figure it out is with the 'dialog' window. It is kind of a pain to configure certain devices and some of the pix_videoDarwin code contains workarounds so I could do plug and play installations all over the world.<br>
<br>I thought I added this to a help file long ago in a Mac specific subpatch. Maybe not.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Mathieu Bouchard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matju@artengine.ca">matju@artengine.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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The messages are different on OSX because devices can and do have multiple inputs. Selecting a 'device' only is not enough information to tell the driver of something like a Blackmagic Intensity card so you need to add an 'input' message as well.<br>
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ah, an "input" method is indeed defined in pix_videoDarwin.cpp, but it is not mentioned in pix_video-help.pd (of gem 92), and I have no hint that something is to be done.<br>
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This behaviour of "device" is also contrary to [pix_video]'s construction-time behaviour of "pick the first video stream we can find".<br>
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I'm all in favour of a more manual camera control (so that the user chooses whether to open a camera at all), I'm just pointing out that "device"/"input" doesn't seem to be very consistent with [pix_video]'s defaults.<br>
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BTW, which devices have several inputs on them, in a way that counts as "input" here (and not multiple devices) ? I'm curious.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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