Sorry if this is a newbie question, but i'm still giving my first steps with PD.
Is it possible show video input directly from a WebCam or a Digital Camcorder in PD for Windows? I have a work to do in my university and it would be extremely cool if i could mix images, text and live video from a webcam or a digital camcorder. Is it possible to do it in PD? And if so, what package/library do i need to achieve this?
Also, please notice that i use Windows XP, not Linux (wich i assume the majority of you use).
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AFAIK pix_video on in GEM on windows is highly unstable. I tried it a couple of times with a Quickcam VC (USB) but I've never catched more than one frame (on win2k). I never got to look deep in the video capture code.
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On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, [iso-8859-1] arm pdlist wrote:
Is it possible show video input directly from a WebCam or a Digital Camcorder in PD for Windows? I have a
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Johannes Taelman wrote:
AFAIK pix_video on in GEM on windows is highly unstable. I tried it a couple of times with a Quickcam VC (USB) but I've never catched more than one frame (on win2k).
really that surprises me. the longest run i had with the [pix_video] object under NT was for some months (ok, i did a reboot each night, and sometimes it still hung, but that's windoof...) i had to hack the object then to be able to restart the driver (because of some counter overrun - entirely windoof) now and then, but unfortunately i have lost the code....
mfg.as.dr IOhannes
On 4/2/03 10:35 AM, "IOhannes zmoelnig" zmoelnig@iem.kug.ac.at wrote:
Johannes Taelman wrote:
AFAIK pix_video on in GEM on windows is highly unstable. I tried it a couple of times with a Quickcam VC (USB) but I've never catched more than one frame (on win2k).
really that surprises me. the longest run i had with the [pix_video] object under NT was for some months (ok, i did a reboot each night, and sometimes it still hung, but that's windoof...) i had to hack the object then to be able to restart the driver (because of some counter overrun - entirely windoof) now and then, but unfortunately i have lost the code....
Pix_video under NT is rather particular about how it tries to configure the capture device... It also doesn't support DV cameras because such devices aren't exposed to VideoForWindows.
I'll post some (alpha) video input objects which I've written for NT which provide a bit more functionality. There's one for VideoForWindows and another for DirectShow which does allow DV devices to be used.
Watch the list... I'll post a link soon.
Daniel
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