[PD] Multiple Webcams and Gem

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Aug 7, 2007, at 11:11 PM, Derek Holzer wrote:

> HI Yves,
>
> Yves Degoyon wrote:
>> Derek Holzer wrote:
>>> In short, Linux users can access a USB camera with [pdp_v4l], but  
>>> not a
>>> firewire one.
>>> OS X users can access a firewire camera with [pdp_ieee1394], but  
>>> not a
>>> USB one.
>>>
>> nope, some USB webcams will work,
>> it uses Quicktime interface in fact
>> like Gem.
>
> That's good to know! I guess more documentation/experimentation is  
> needed...

pdp_ieee1394 is really more like pdp_quicktimein.  If the camera is  
supported by quicktime, I think it'll work with pdp_ieee1394.  The  
USB iSight in my MacBook Pro works well.

.hc

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