[jitter] adressing several unibrain fire-i cameras

Hey Felix

they way I got this to work - on a mac - was to use the IOXperts drivers that came with the fire-i cameras 
(this is not reccomended by cycling 74)

the key thing these drivers do is to actually assign a different (serial # based) name to each camera
when you go through the driver set-up it allows you to give it a specfic name - 

thus, by labeling the physical cameras 1-4 with a sharpie and labeling the matching drivers Unibrain Fire-I1 - through Unibrain Fire-I4 I was able to consistantly know what camera I was addressing through jit.qt.grab when.

I still went in and manually set up what camera I was addressing each time I had a performance, but this worked ok for me and the other perameters I was looking at changed depending on the actual performance space camera instal etc.

I have no idea about the PC end of things

hope this helps
let me know if I can help more
jamie

----- Original Message ----
From: Felix <felix.luque at gmail.com>
To: jitter at cycling74.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 6, 2007 11:55:24 AM
Subject: [jitter] adressing several unibrain fire-i cameras


Hello List!.
I have to grab videos from 4 unibrain’s fire-I cameras at the same time - record to HD - Playback the videos recorded. I have no problem grabbing the 4 video streams in easy chain mode. 
But what I also need is to recognize each fire-I camera and assign them a name so that I never lose track of which image is given by which camera. 
Right now I only find jamie jewett comments in a forum’s thread (2004): «… you can give each camera a unique name that stays linked to the serial number of the camera -and thus you can easily know which camera you are addressing…». 
I have done this using the Fire I Application for Windows XP (Camera 1, Camera 2...). But I don’t know how to address them in jitter (using jit.qt.grab or jit.dx.grab). The «vdevice» message uses integers and the «get vdevice» gives me Unibrain Fire-i driver / Unibrain Fire-I for each camera (as in the Windows's device manager). I’m also interested in doing the same operation in OSX with the IOXperts drivers.
So the questions should be:
How can I name and address each fire-I cameras in jitter on Windows XP?.
How can I name and address each fire-I cameras in jitter on OSX?.
What drivers are best in Windows XP? And in OSX?

Many Thanks,
Felix

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