Hi Chris, Jamie a.o.
The horizontal lines don't really look like interlacing, it's really a field-swapping thing. The more you move the camera the more you see those horizontal lines going down your screen. You have 1 or 2 lines on the screen that seems to break the image in half and it seems the video cannot keep up with the speed in which it's moving.
I don't have a DV camera to test this with right now, but maybe an OSX
GEM user can test by sending a >'quality 1' message to pix_video followed by a 'reset' message. 'quality 0' is channelPlayNormal and
'quality 1' is channelPlayHighQuality.
I looks like the object ieeel394 works the same like pix_video. The quality 0 or 1 can be set followed by the reset message, but that doesn't make it any better.
Yves used the pix_video code for OSX video capture. There is no open source (or even non-Quicktime) video capture for OSX to the best of my knowledge.
This is true. But, isn't there anyone out there that has the same problem? [Or is nobody using the pdp firewire object] If it is a case of updating / changing some libraries, then I can at least do something about it.
Sara