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.

								dima

Dmitry "Dima" Strakovsky Assistant Professor of Intermedia University of Kentucky http://www.shiftingplanes.org