pix_video on OSX will use the first video input device it finds.
Object creation will dump some lines about the device and the object to
the terminal/console - what does that say? Does the device work with
other Quicktime based capture applications? Sometimes it helps to
setup the device in one of those apps using the standard QT dialog
before starting GEM. Unfortunately, I have never found a way to make
that same dialog work in GEM because of the way event loops in Carbon
work. There is a scandalously small amount of info about manipulating
capture devices without using that dialog too.
cgc
On Mar 31, 2005, at 1:19 AM, Ian Smith-Heisters wrote:
I've been trying to get pix_video working satisfactorily on a number of systems, and have finally settled on using a G4 PowerBook. I've never really used Mac OSX beyond some basic network and programming stuff, so bear with me please.
I downloaded the pd 0.38-3 app from http://pcm.peabody.jhu.edu/~sburt/pd/installing_pd_os_x.html, it loaded Gem 0.90 without error.
When I send [open 0( [device 0( [driver 0( [enumerate( or any other methods besides [dim( I get
pix_videoDarwin: no method for 'open'
...or whatever method I tried. I found this problem in the archives in 2003, but renaming pix_video to pix_videoDarwin, as suggested, didn't help anything.
I got the same error with Hans-Christoph Steiner's installer and a manual installation from SF.net. I also got a similar error trying DeMuDi 1.1.1 on another computer.
What gives? Am I doing something just utterly stupid? Thanks for any help you can offer.
-Ian
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