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isight and processing
May 30th, 2005, 11:55am
 
was wondering if any has ever tried the isight camera with processing, have been trying to give it a go but no luck

thanks
Re: isight and processing
Reply #1 - May 30th, 2005, 12:52pm
 
do you have any more info?
what have you tried?
have you installed quicktime for java and winvdig?
what errormessages do you get?
operating system, etc.
Re: isight and processing
Reply #2 - May 30th, 2005, 1:45pm
 
Hi Seltar

thanks for your reply

well i havn't personally installed quicktime for java and winvdig

but i have been using quicktime movies and they seem to work fine

my operating system is osx 10.3,9

the error messages i have been getting are below..not sure what it means really

## Component Manager: attempting to find symbols in a component alias of type (regR/carP/x!bt)

DV Video
DVCPRO HD (1080i60)
DVCPRO HD (720p60)
IIDC FireWire Video

Ta
moozr
Re: isight and processing
Reply #3 - May 30th, 2005, 2:05pm
 
U need to install quicktime for java, wich is not in the default way quicktime installs itself. It's not the same thing with playing movies inside java.

From what I know WinVDIG is not needed on a Mac.
Re: isight and processing
Reply #4 - May 30th, 2005, 6:45pm
 
and if that's not the problem, i think you've entered the wrong name for your camera in your code.. you're supposed to write the name that's outputted by the program.
i believe one of these are your cam:
 
DV Video
DVCPRO HD (1080i60)
DVCPRO HD (720p60)
IIDC FireWire Video

and you have to enter the one it is, exactly like that in your code.

or i might be way off on this one..
Re: isight and processing
Reply #5 - May 31st, 2005, 9:54am
 

i am going to try them out, having a little computer problem with downloading at the moment but just wanted to say thanks for your suggestions
Re: isight and processing
Reply #6 - May 31st, 2005, 11:28am
 
You could use something like

Code:

import processing.video.*;
Capture cam;

void setup() {
size(320, 240);
String s = Capture.list()[0];
cam = new Capture(this, s, 320, 240, 30);
}

void captureEvent(Capture camera) {
cam.read();
}

void draw() {
image(cam, 0, 0);
}


if you have only one video input device
Re: isight and processing
Reply #7 - May 7th, 2006, 2:36am
 
I know this may be super late, but if you're still reading, I just got this work without any problems at all with my iSight camera:

Quote:
IIDC FireWire Video
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