[PD] Saving camera dialog

[Alexandros Drymonitis]

FYI, I've got a macbook running mountain lion, but don't get any of this
behavior.


On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 9:59 PM, stéfan piat <stefanpiat at gmail.com> wrote:

> hello,
>
> it's a bit out of topic, but I recently noticed strange behaviors of
> [pix_video] on differents macbookpro running with osx moutain lion and
> latest release of pd-extended.
> For [pix_video] [dialog( make pd crash (not always) when trying to switch
> between different video devices
> (actually we were unable to change the video device, ant the default one
> was not always the built-in camera)
> I noticed on one of the computers that [enumerate( does work only when no
> usb camera where plugged in
> As for pix_record [codeclist( didn't output any codec list and we couldn't
> set any codec either
>
> hope this help
> stéfan
>
>
> 2013/3/5 Alexandros Drymonitis <adrcki at gmail.com>
>
>> 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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