[PD] Webcam advice

[nico]

hi,
this is my personnal experience with webcam and Gem:
i got usb cam : Phillips toucam  2

i had to dowload the macam drivers:
http://webcam-osx.sourceforge.net/

and i got my face in Gem.
not glorious, but it works.

hope you'll find a solution
nicolas

> Phew!
>
> Just got in from trudging the city centre of Plymouth...no Firewire 
> webcams,
> only USB! Doh!
>
> How do USB cams fare with the PD, GEM and Mac OS X combo? I'm sure I 
> read
> somewhere that they won't work, am I right?...should I just be 
> ordering a FW
> cam online already?!
>
> Jonathan
>
>
>
>
> On 9/2/06 14:26, "AshK" <ashk at azylum.net> wrote:
>
>> Thank you that's a great advice! auto focus on iSight happens too
>> often for me and the image gets blurred for some time and the patch
>> gets lost.
>>
>> AshK
>>
>>
>> On 9 févr. 06, at 14:55, Vasily Kuznetsov wrote:
>>
>>> I'm using Apple iSight with GEM/PD on Mac OS X Tiger.
>>> Everything is pretty much fine, except for the autofocus
>>> roaming, which sometimes happens if you point iSight
>>> at something like a flat white wall, but autofocusing
>>> can be switched off by sending [dialog( message to
>>> pix_video and configuring everything in the appearing
>>> dialog.
>>>
>>> Vasily
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 9, 2006, at 6:02 PM, Jonathan Goodwin wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm about to go out and buy a webcam for integration of live
>>>> footage. via
>>>> gem's pix_video, into my current patch. Any advice tips etc on
>>>> what to look
>>>> for?
>>>>
>>>> I'm using Mac OS X and preferably want a firewire cam due to
>>>> available
>>>> ports. What works, what doesn't?...or can I buy any cam?!
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Jonathan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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