Jennek Geels

I have a brand new Firefly MV from www.pointgrey.com.

I selected it because it has this CMOS sensor with excellent near IR 

I need to run it on XP so I installed the VDIG driver from WinVDIG.

No luck. I cannot open the camera with jit.qt.grab.

In the max window I get an errorcode which I do not have handy right now

(some 12 digit negative number beginning with 5)

However, I am able to open my iSight -- which now has a WDM driver 

- is the Firefly MV WDM driver OK? for this I need some windows app 

Any suggestions which one will result in a dependable test of the 

I can open the camera with the point gray supplied viewer, but I 

- is there an alternative to WinVDIG? the abstractplane website seems 

I have a brand new Firefly MV from www.pointgrey.com.
I selected it because it has this CMOS sensor with excellent near IR  
sensitivity.
I need to run it on XP so I installed the VDIG driver from WinVDIG.
This is on a MacBook Pro with Bootcamp

No luck. I cannot open the camera with jit.qt.grab.
In the max window I get an errorcode which I do not have handy right now
(some 12 digit negative number beginning with 5)
However, I am able to open my iSight -- which now has a WDM driver  
(bootcamp 1.1 goodie).

Now I need to verify
- is the Firefly MV WDM driver OK? for this I need some windows app  
that lets me view a WDM device.
   Any suggestions which one will result in a dependable test of the  
WDM driver compliance?
   I can open the camera with the point gray supplied viewer, but I  
want to run a 3rd party tool.
- is there an alternative to WinVDIG? the abstractplane website seems  
dead.

connecting-firefly-mv-on-xp

On Aug 25, 2006, at 2:44 PM, jennek geels wrote:

> I have a brand new Firefly MV from www.pointgrey.com.

> I selected it because it has this CMOS sensor with excellent near 

> I need to run it on XP so I installed the VDIG driver from WinVDIG.

> No luck. I cannot open the camera with jit.qt.grab.

In general, I would not recommend using jit.qt.grab on XP. While it 

sometimes works, there appear to be a variety of problems with the 

third party VDIG component. Please use jit.dx.grab (Jitter 1.5 and 

higher) and let us know if it works for you.

On Aug 25, 2006, at 2:44 PM, jennek geels wrote:
> I have a brand new Firefly MV from www.pointgrey.com.
> I selected it because it has this CMOS sensor with excellent near  
> IR sensitivity.
> I need to run it on XP so I installed the VDIG driver from WinVDIG.
> No luck. I cannot open the camera with jit.qt.grab.

In general, I would not recommend using jit.qt.grab on XP. While it  
sometimes works, there appear to be a variety of problems with the  
third party VDIG component. Please use jit.dx.grab (Jitter 1.5 and  
higher) and let us know if it works for you.

connecting Firefly MV on XP