[GEM-dev] pix_video grabs with wrong resolution (again)

chris clepper cgclepper at gmail.com
Sat Mar 21 14:56:42 CET 2009


I always had problems with the IOXperts driver.  Can you uninstall it and
try using the Apple IIDC driver?

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 1:12 AM, adrian goya <adrian.goya at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I found this old thread while searching for a solution to my problem.
> http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/gem-dev/2008-11/003729.html
>
> I have the same behavior> pix_video displays only a portion of the
> image, like it was zoomed in. The difference from what Max had back
> then is that I am using a Fire-i camera with IOXperts driver.
>
> If I send a dialog message to pix_video I see two different cameras
> (only one is actually connected though): "Unibrain FIre-i" and
> "mycamera". They are the same camera, "mycamera" is just the name
> given when registering the "Unibrain Fire-i" with IOXperts. When the
> dialog box appears "mycamera" is selected and the preview is only the
> top left fraction of the image. I then click on "Unibrain Fire-i" and
> the images gets fixed: the whole frame is displayed. I then choose
> "mycamera" and is fixed aswell. I can then work normally.
>
> I need to setup an installation that needs to automatically turn on
> everyday and just work, so this manual setting is unacceptable. I
> suppose that if I send a device message to pix_video to select
> "Unibrain Fire-i" and then another selecting "mycamera" from within
> the pd patch, a similar behavior would ensure and the problem would be
> fixed. how do device messages in osx work? I get this in pd console
> with pix_video:
>
> [pix_videoDarwin]: pix_videoDarwin: SG channnel Device List count 8 index 6
> [pix_videoDarwin]: pix_videoDarwin: SG channnel Device List   DV Video
> [pix_videoDarwin]: pix_videoDarwin: SG channnel Device List   DVCPRO
> HD (1080i50)
> [pix_videoDarwin]: pix_videoDarwin: SG channnel Device List   DVCPRO
> HD (1080i60)
> [pix_videoDarwin]: pix_videoDarwin: SG channnel Device List   DVCPRO
> HD (720p25/50)
> [pix_videoDarwin]: pix_videoDarwin: SG channnel Device List   DVCPRO
> HD (720p60)
> [pix_videoDarwin]: pix_videoDarwin: SG channnel Device List   IIDC
> FireWire Video
> [pix_videoDarwin]: pix_videoDarwin: SG channnel Device List   mycamera
> [pix_videoDarwin]: pix_videoDarwin: SG channnel Device List   USB
> Video Class Video
> [pix_videoDarwin]: pix_videoDarwin: SGSetChannelDevice trying  DVCPRO
> HD (720p60)
> [pix_videoDarwin]: pix_videoDarwin: SGSetChannelDevice returned error 704
> [pix_videoDarwin]: pix_videoDarwin : vdigName is  r2
>
> I tried using
>
>  [device 0, input 0, dimen 640 480( as suggested here
> http://www.mail-archive.com/pd-list@iem.at/msg15811.html    using
> different device numbers but had no success.
>
> any help would be appreciated. I do not know what else to do.
>
> Thankyou all.
>
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