hi dima,
you might want to search the max/msp/jitter forums as well, there are several posts about using multiple firewire cams on osx. the most efficient solution seemed to be unibrain fire-i, up to 4 were daisy-chained iirc.
hth hans www.hans-w-koch.net
Am 08.08.2010 um 18:28 schrieb pd-list-request@iem.at:
Message: 1 Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 07:12:25 -0500 From: Dima Strakovsky dima@shiftingplanes.org Subject: [PD] advice- multiple camera inputs To: pd-list@iem.at Message-ID: 53AFDB2F-C31A-45C7-827F-1161E4754F90@shiftingplanes.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Hi all,
Coming out of the lurker mode to ask a question here :) I am kicking around an idea for a work that would require four camera inputs. The video streams would be remixed in realtime and output via a single projector. Was wondering if anyone has played with the scenario and has some advice to offer?
OS-wise I could go with ether OsX or LInux. I am looking for the max resolution from each input. Hopefully at least 320X240. Ideally higher. Camera-wise I was looking at two solutions 1. four cameras go into a multiplexer and then I grab the four different quadrants from the video stream or 2. four firewire cards (might be too much of a brute force solution:) + might run into some interesting driver issues). Also, is there an advantage to having two boxes processing inputs and then sharing them over a network i.e. using more then one computer for this work?
Any advice would be very much appreciated. Thank you.
dimaDmitry "Dima" Strakovsky Assistant Professor of Intermedia University of Kentucky http://www.shiftingplanes.org