[GEM-dev] videoKINECT plugin for pix_video

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Mar 22, 2011, at 4:02 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

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> On 2011-03-21 22:28, sonia yuditskaya wrote:
>> Hi Matthias,
>> if you know how to make a pix_kinect object please do!
>
> please don't. the videoKINECT plugin is the way to go.
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>> It turns out that on mac there is no driver support for cameras in
>> pix_video, it is all just going through quicktime.
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> that's mainly a problem with the current build-system of Gem.
> on OSX it still defaults to using [pix_videoDarwin] rather than the  
> new
> plugin based approach.
> you _should_ be able to force using plugins with something like
> $ ./configure --with-video=no
>
> apart from the fact that the "no" is quite weird (as you do want  
> video,
> you just don't want pix_videoDarwin), i think i also remember that  
> this
> for some reasons does not work (e.g. it is ignored), but i might be
> mistaken here as well.
>
> the configure definitely needs some rework to remove the forcing of  
> some
> defaults.
>
>>
>
> all in all, this is a minor issue compared to getting videoKINEXT  
> running.
> thanks matthias.

Yes, it would be nice to have [pix_video] work with the Kinect, but  
right now the plugins stuff is not fully done yet, and people want to  
work with the Kinect now. I tried to get stuff building using the Gem  
build system, but I couldn't get it going, so I just made a Makefile  
which seems to work.  For one, it seems to depend on automake-1.11,  
which is not always easily available.  I see no reason why the Gem  
plugins can work for automake-1.9 or even earlier, its not a  
complicated build.

.hc



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