Installation stability using iSight with jitter, mac OSX
May 12 2006 | 2:24 am
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> I'm considering doing an istallation that would run for several months
> using jitter with an apple iSight on a Mac (G4 or G5). Does anyone have any
> experiences, good or bad, running an iSight with jitter over very long
> periods?
Thanks,
Christopher
- May 12 2006 | 4:28 amlight changes. program accordingly. don't rely on automatic lightsettings. tweak your iidc settings. lots of work but worth it.
- May 12 2006 | 10:04 amabout two years ago i had pretty bad experiences: jit.qt.grab wouldafter a couple of days or hours lose its connection and it would keepon outputting the last frame it grabbed. My workaround was to check foridentical frames (jit.change) and to close and reopen the connectionafter a number of identical frames in a row were detected.Not very clean though...Also I had a hard time of keeping max/msp/jitter up continuously: itwould crash once in a while, which also seemed related to jit.qt.grab:if i removed it the rest of the patch was very stable ( and I've neverhad problems running other jitter patches without jit.qt.grab for longperiods).Please note these experiences were with jitter 1.2.x, with an iSightwith the then current firmware: I imagine things will have improved inthe current jitter versions, but I advise you to check these things..also this was only my personal experience, perhaps there's hundreds ofpeople on this list who did very similar things without any problems (ican imagine)..FWIW,Joost.-------------------------------------------Joost Rekveld----------- http://www.lumen.nu/rekveld-------------------------------------------"The mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible"(Oscar Wilde)-------------------------------------------
