[PD] Trying to get PS3eye to work with pix_video on OSX

[Jaime Oliver]

mmh...

did you compile it or are you using a precompiled gem?

a few people are having problems with 10.6 ... but I haven't tried the
precompiled version yet...

J

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 5:17 PM, jim <cinetron at passport.ca> wrote:
>
>> also, to fully install the macam drivers, you need to move the
>> macam.component into /Library/Quicktime.
>>
>> you should have an alias folder to drag it when you download macam....
> Thanks for the help everyone. I tried the same setup PD version etc. on
> a friends laptop. I was using a mini mac running OSX 10.6 . He is using
> OSX 10.5 and it worked fine on his machine but not mine. Has anyone else
> seen a problem with 10.6 where there was no problem in 10.5. Does this
> mean I have to downgrade to 10.5 or is there something else I can try in
> 10.6 to get the camera working? Normally I work in Linux so I'm not too
> MAC savy.
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:59 AM, chris clepper <cgclepper at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > The first error -9408 is a driver error that it cannot do what is being
>> > asked.  Basically, the driver doesn't want to work for whatever reason.  Can
>> > you uninstall the macam drivers and try the Apple USB Video Class driver?
>> >
>> > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:13 PM, jim <cinetron at passport.ca> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I'm trying to get a PS3eye camera working on OSX 10.6 . I get the
>> >> messages below. The camera works with the application that comes with
>> >> macam . Does anyone have any suggestions for how I can get it to work?
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Jim
>> >>
>> >> [pix_videoDarwin]: height 320 width 240
>> >> [pix_videoDarwin]: SG channnel Device List count 4 index 2
>> >> [pix_videoDarwin]: SG channnel Device List  DV Video
>> >> [pix_videoDarwin]: SG channnel Device List  IIDC FireWire Video
>> >> [pix_videoDarwin]: SG channnel Device List   Sony HD Eye for PS3 (SLEH
>> >> 00201)
>> >> [pix_videoDarwin]: SG channnel Device List  USB Video Class Video
>> >> error: [pix_videoDarwin]: SGSetChannelDevice returned error -9408
>> >> ... you might be able to track this down from the Find menu.
>> >> [pix_videoDarwin]: vdigName is *macam #0: Sony HD Eye for PS3 (SLEH
>> >> 00201)
>> >> [pix_videoDarwin]: digitizer rect is top 0 bottom 480 left 0 right 640
>> >> [pix_videoDarwin]: active src rect is top 0 bottom 480 left 0 right 640
>> >> error: [pix_videoDarwin]: could not set SG Rect
>> >> [pix_videoDarwin]: set SG NormalQuality
>> >> [pix_videoDarwin]: using YUV
>> >> [pix_videoDarwin]: height 320 width 240
>> >> error: [pix_videoDarwin]: could not make new SG channnel error -9405
>> >> [pix_videoDarwin]: colorspace is GL_RGBA 32993
>> >> error: [pix_videoDarwin]: SGStop failed with error -9402
>> >> [pix_videoDarwin]: starting reset
>> >> error: [pix_videoDarwin]: could not make new SG channnel error -9405
>> >> GemwinMac: width - 500 height - 500
>> >> GemWindow Activate err = 0
>> >> GEM: GLEW version 1.5.0
>> >> GEM: Start rendering
>> >>
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