[GEM-dev] [pix_video] error with macbook's built-in camera

Dan Wilcox danomatika at gmail.com
Tue Feb 14 18:50:04 CET 2017


It’s not on my Github fork yet as it *works* but there is a memory leak, so Pd crashes after about a minute of playback. Should be a simple fix, but I didn’t find it yet and there may be a workaround that requires a partial rewrite.

> On Feb 14, 2017, at 8:33 AM, me.grimm <megrimm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >>I have a working pix_film using the newer framework, AVFoundation,
> 
> unaware this was working. code pushed to github? i would be interested in testing but unfortunately have no time (or skills) for this kind of dev work. 
> 
> i am surprised that you are the only one working on this... shame because it seems if a group was organized to complete it would actually get done.
> 
> thanks for the work you have put in
> 
> cheers
> m
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 1:19 PM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com <mailto:danomatika at gmail.com>> wrote:
> GEM needs to be updated to use a different video backend as QuickTime is no longer available. This has been a known issue for years...
> 
> In the meantime, there is no solution but to downgrade to 10.11 as QT is no longer present on 10.12.
> 
> In the longer term, I have a working pix_film using the newer framework, AVFoundation, ported from OpenFrameworks but there are some performance issues I haven’t figured out yet. Once that’s ironed out I’ll port the video grabber next.
> 
> It would be nice to get some development help on this, but it looks like in the end it’s up to me. Note, this is not a high priority for me right now. 

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