Multiple cameras through USB

Roel van Doorn's icon

Hi

we want to connect 3 USB Macally cameras to our computer, and use the live video input using the jit.qt.grab object. When connecting the cameras through a powered USB hub, the cameras are detected. But when selecting the input, only the first camera works. The other two get an automatic name Macally #2 etc but when selected, these do not work. Anyone has got experience with the connection of multiple USB cameras to Jitter? I found some older forum discussion, but these mention firewire cameras. Thanks!

sha wu's icon

hiii i came up with the same probs, did u fix that

Wil's icon

try [vdevice -1]

Rob Ramirez's icon

I believe the limit here is dependent on your computer hardware. I was only ever able to get 2 USB cameras working from a single Mac laptop the last time I attempted this.