johann scholz wrote:

hi,

i'm pretty new to puredata and so on, put already got this small prob: i can't connect with pix_video to my camera which is connected via firewire! do i need any messages to be sent to pix_video or anything else to define which camera to use? I'm working on winxp but found in the net just workarounds for linux or mac...any help would be great

please be a bit more specific about your problem (what does "i can't connect" mean to you?); do you get any error messges? which ones?

which version of Gem and/or Pd are you using? (and even if you are using Pd-extended, please tell us the version of Gem as displayed on the console; i don't use Pd-extended and i don't know which version of Gem comes with which versoin of PdX)

have you tried the help-files "pix_videoDS-help.pd" (and probably "pix_video-help.pd")? do they work?

note that on some systems you must have only one [pix_video] instance running at any given time, because the camera access is exclusive (read: don't create a [pix_video] object and rightclick->help but navigate manually to the help-patch without having a [pix_video] anywhere in your patch)

fgmasdr IOhannes