I have been trying to run the motion_detect.pd and have been unable to configure the camera. I have installed v4l (format/videodetect.c). Does gridflow support any webcam?(i have a integrated Creative webcam on my laptop.) I read on a forum about some driver for the philips cam. How do i go about installing drivers for camera for gridflow?(i'm a newb...)(can i make any cam other than the philips one, which has drivers ,work?and usually from what source does gridflow get video?).
Thnks, Sisil
Hi Sisil,
I just tried it with a logitech camera and I get a hard crash. The same camera works under Gem. I will be able to try it some more in a couple of days.
As for windows and gf...I think you are better off staying in linux.
Cheers,
Alexandre
sisil mehta a écrit :
I have been trying to run the motion_detect.pd and have been unable to configure the camera. I have installed v4l (format/videodetect.c). Does gridflow support any webcam?(i have a integrated Creative webcam on my laptop.) I read on a forum about some driver for the philips cam. How do i go about installing drivers for camera for gridflow?(i'm a newb...)(can i make any cam other than the philips one, which has drivers ,work?and usually from what source does gridflow get video?).
Thnks, Sisil
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On Sun, 2 Aug 2009, Alexandre Castonguay wrote:
I just tried it with a logitech camera and I get a hard crash.
You can't just say "a logitech camera" here. say which kind of camera. the "kind" means the driver that has to be used with it. That means that "Logitech" isn't a kind of camera, but PWC (Philips) is. I know that UVC cameras don't work with GridFlow because V4L2 isn't supported by GridFlow and V4L1 isn't supported by UVC. Before PWC there were the QC-USB cameras, of which you have at least one (perhaps a bunch) and we already used the parallel port QuickCam in the nineties, so that makes 4 completely different drivers (qce-ga was the only former name of the qc-usb driver).
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Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Sun, 2 Aug 2009, Alexandre Castonguay wrote:
I just tried it with a logitech camera and I get a hard crash.
You can't just say "a logitech camera" here. say which kind of camera. the "kind" means the driver that has to be used with it. That means that "Logitech" isn't a kind of camera, but PWC (Philips) is. I know that UVC cameras don't work with GridFlow because V4L2 isn't supported by GridFlow and V4L1 isn't supported by UVC. Before PWC there were the
you can use libv4l's compat mode to add v4l2 support to v4l1-only applications. see all the mails on the pd-list, pd-dev, and/or gem-dev regarding this. (search the archives)
fgamsdr IOhannes
On Sun, 2 Aug 2009, sisil mehta wrote:
I have been trying to run the motion_detect.pd and have been unable to configure the camera. I have installed v4l (format/videodetect.c).
That's actually format/videodev.c, but it isn't "v4l" itself, it's "v4l support for gridflow". "v4l" refers to two protocols used by apps and drivers to talk to each other.
Does gridflow support any webcam? (i have a integrated Creative webcam on my laptop.) I read on a forum about some driver for the philips cam. How do i go about installing drivers for camera for gridflow? (i'm a newb...) (can i make any cam other than the philips one, which has drivers ,work?
Configure your camera as you would normally do on Linux. Then, if your driver is V4L1-compatible, chances are that it will work on GridFlow. If ever it's a V4L2-only driver, then try the trick Johannes talked about and don't forget to tell us whether it worked and if not, what the problem was!
and usually from what source does gridflow get video?).
cameras, video files, picture files, ... though you can also generate video from scratch as well (no source). for the cameras themselves, gridflow supports V4L1 *and* FireWire-DC on Linux, and supports only the QuickTime camera interface on OSX. Chances are that I'm adding V4L2 soon. I forgot to mention FireWire-DC before (aka DC1394).
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