[GEM-dev] videoKINECT plugin for pix_video

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Mar 22, 2011, at 12:33 PM, chris clepper wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> On the Mac and Windows the proper way to do this is to make  
> Quicktime components or DirectShow filters so any application can  
> use the device.  Writing specific app level code for every random  
> video device is a waste of time.


IMHO, writing a specific object is the fastest way to get something  
working, and that's worthwhile. Plus much of Quicktime is deprecated  
for 64-bit, so that means a nightmare if you want to support both 32- 
bit and 64-bit on Mac OS X: you have to write for both Quicktime and  
the new API, which isn't even fully defined yet.  I don't know much  
about writing DirectShow plugins.

.hc

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