[PD] Saving camera dialog

[Alexandros Drymonitis]

Hmm, I do have the latest version but I guess I didn't check the help patch
thoroughly...which is there to give insight. I'm sorry, should have checked
better. The [device $1( did it eventually. Thanks a lot.


On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Antoine Villeret <antoine.villeret at gmail.com
> wrote:

> ha,
>
> which version of Gem do you have ?
> here is the latest help patch for pix_video,
>
> take a look at [enumerate( with which you will have the list of available
> devices and driver
> then [device $1( may help to choose the right one
> and then [enumProps( to get its properties and [set(, [get( and other
> [*Props( messages...
>
> you don't need dialog to setup camera, as a proof, there isn't any dialog
> on Linux and we use camera everyday...
>
> cheers
>
> a
>
>
> --
> do it yourself
> http://antoine.villeret.free.fr
>
>
> 2013/3/5 Alexandros Drymonitis <adrcki at gmail.com>
>
>> Don't really get it. I'm sending [enumProps( to [pix_video], but if I do
>> that before anything else I get the following error message: [pix_video]:
>> cannot enumerate properties without a valid video-device
>> If I set the desired camera via [dialog( I get nothing...
>> What I wanna do is use a PS3 eye camera for a live performance, but I'd
>> rather use Pd -nogui. The only way though I can choose this camera is to
>> first create and render a [gemwin], destroy it and then send [dialog( to
>> [pix_video], which won't be possible without the gui.
>> So, to put my initial question in other words, how is it possible to set
>> a camera other than the built in, without the gui?
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Antoine Villeret <
>> antoine.villeret at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> All camera settings should be available through [pix_video] it self
>>> without dialog.
>>> Try sending [enumProps( and [pix_video] should send all readable and
>>> writeable properties.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> a
>>>
>>> --
>>> do it yourself
>>> http://antoine.villeret.free.fr
>>>
>>>
>>> 2013/3/3 Alexandros Drymonitis <adrcki at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>>  With midi or audio you can send Pd a message on load which you get
>>>> either with [get-midi-dialog] and [get-audio-dialog] or by connecting [r
>>>> pd] to [print], then go to midi/audio settings and press ok. This gives you
>>>> the message you have to send so you can use these settings immediately
>>>> (say, if you use pd -nogui).
>>>> What about using a camera other than the built-in? You can set that by
>>>> sending [dialog( to [pix_video], but is it possible to set it by sending Pd
>>>> a message? If so, where do you get this message from?
>>>>
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