Hello !
I'm working on an installation which displays a GEM video. This video is generated with pictures taken by a digital camera and some random tools. At this state, the patch just loads photographs from the harddrive with the object [pix_image] or [pix_multiimage]. Now, i'd like to insert new photographs in the video, while the patch is running. In fact, the installation should be a real-time video and a digital camera which lets the spectator free to take a photograph of himself, and being automatically integrated as new material for the patch to generate video. That's the idea. Now, I don't know if there's a way to control a digital camera, or a videocamera (maybe it's easier, with the firewire protocol) to make it take a picture which can be then stored in a GEM object. All I've got is a USB digital camera (for photo) and a DVcamera (so with a firewire link). I'm not interested in having a huge resolution, 640x480 is the maximum (because I haven't got a very fast computer and I prefer to have lot of photographs (I hope there will be a lot of spectator !)). Is it possible to control theses devices with pd, or to create an external program (in a different language) which communicates with pd. Is there documentation about this ? Another question : I'm now working with the pure:dyne (I think you know it). I'd like to display the Gem window in fullscreen on an external monitor/videoprojector. I manage to get an « extended desktop » (with Xinerama) but not to display the gemwin on the external monitor : with [fullscreen 1( it is always displayed on my laptop, and with [fullscreen 0( the video of the Gem window is no more rendered when i pass it on the external screen. I tried lots of settings in my xorg.conf, but it never worked more than once (if it works one time, it doesn't anymore when i restart X). I think Gem refers to the Screen 0 to choose where it is displayed, but even if i define the external screen as the Screen 0, it doesn't work, the « display screen » or the « rendering buffer » remains on my laptop. My graphic card is a Intel 855 GME, so i'm using i810 as driver. Has anyone got the same problem ?
Thanks a lot and sorry again for my newbie's questions,
Raphael