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howecome #1 08/11/2007 - 15h53

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Hello,

Had anyone tried running FreeTrack on a MacBook Pro runnning Windows XP.  I thought I would give it a shot, but it keeps crashing on me.

FreeTrack finds the iSight camera and shows me my face initially but quickly drops to 0 frames per second and crashes (FreeTrack closes).

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Ally
Kestrel #2 08/11/2007 - 16h12

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Sounds like the usual RGB crash, use I420 compression or increase threshold and reduce webcam exposure before starting the video stream.
zydecotoad #3 09/11/2007 - 14h35

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Did you ever get your Macbook working ?  I have the same crash and can not figure out a way to change compression.

Thanks
Todd Smith
howecome #4 12/11/2007 - 16h37

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Indeed, I don't think there is any option over the type of compression -  YUY2 was the only kind available (whatever that is?)

I played with various things and the crashes do seem to have stopped - I turned the resolution down, and did something with filters - thought not sure what!

I gave up with the iSight and am currently using a MSI star cam 370i.  After playing with the exposure and brightness this is giving much better results.  I'm using a red LED in relatively low light at the moment.

Hope this helps.
Kestrel #5 16/11/2007 - 06h16

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YUY2 is unsupported in 2.1
Terjef #6 29/11/2007 - 15h41

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So is there no way of getting a macbook pros webcam to work? It just crashes on me when I start it in the settings.

Hope you can help.
howecome #7 29/11/2007 - 16h05

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None that I know of I'm afraid.

Ally
Kestrel #8 30/11/2007 - 01h32

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It will be supported when I can find the time, it has to be supported eventually because YUY2 is used by UVC drivers which are the future webcam standard.

Does the iSight support NV12?
howecome #9 30/11/2007 - 10h51

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Kestrel a dit:

Does the iSight support NV12?



I've no idea - how would I find out?

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