On Feb 16, 2006, at 12:59 AM, sawilson1 wrote:

I'm trying to capture video with PDP on a Mac. The list of
available objects only offers pdp_v4l and pdp_qt. Is there anyway to use a web cam to pick up live video? I'm running
RC7 on OSX 10.4.4 with a Logitech QuickCam 4000 Pro.

...pidip has [pdp_ieee1394] for fw cameras (although come to think of
it, it's basically the same code as gem's [pix_video], which can also
use usb cameras): however I caution against it, because it tries to
run the quicktime sequence grabber's idle function in a seperate
thread, which is a no-no, and causes strange cpu surges if you try to
pause or stop the capture...hopefully we can figure out someway
around this in the future...

...otoh, I always use Gem's [pix_video] into [pix_2pdp], which works
very nicely (color conversion is altivec'ed, too)...you can also
bring it back to gem for display on a geo with [pdp2gem]...both of
these objects are in pd-extended, along with help files...

james