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Join and organize meetups on MobilizonHello guys, I cant get a video signal from a camera,
Im using a Flir Camera throught a giga bit connection
And using their sdk to get the signal a Directshow input on the computer…
Ive tried with the opencv library but nothing…
using the last previews and the stable as well…
Its working with OBS or in Notch and every soft with a inputcam…
Thanks you for your help
Working in Beta by the way…
In Gamma, the camera doesn’t show off in the device
vl is not using Directshow for video input but Mediafoundation. so this sounds like the issue at hand here. if you need this, we can probably make this work via custom support. please get in touch via devvvvs@vvvv.org with more details.
how is the screenshot with the AzureKinect related?
Hello joreg,
the camera I try to get is PtGrey Camera in my screenshot…
So is I understand correctly there is no way currently to get those kind of signal in VL … All virtual camera doesn’t work either…
Is this something that will stay that way or are they any plan to make it possible…?
There is a lot of situation where it will be problematic
And yes I can get in touch with devvvvs, but it seems to me that it should be included in the basic features of vvvv…
Thank you :)
Recently tried this “cheap” thermal camera that works just fine with videoin:
https://www.infiray.com/p2-pro-thermal-camera-for-smartphone/
Thankd tgd, that a nice camera to know…
But I think my question was about ip camera…
I find that old thread that talk about the same issue
They talked about ultragrid… does anyone had experience with it?
oh i see, reading flir i was sure you mean a thermal cam, nevermind
While on demand we can certainly do this, we were hoping we’d get around supporting the legacy Directshow API. But indeed there are still some manufacturers that haven’t made the switch to the more modern Mediafoundation API.
Can you be more specific here? e.g. NDI’s virtual webcam works. haven’t tested OBS ones recently, but it didn’t work in the past (which would be worked around via Spout then).
Anyway for professional cameras like the pointgreys it would always be preferrable to use them via their dedicated APIs, to get access to all their features (which you’d not get when using them via Directshow).
I was confused about the terms “Flir camera” and “Spinnaker SDK” initially, but now looking at it more closely, it seems that the term “Flir” covers a whole range of different categories of cameras that includes the pointgrey cameras. And the Spinnaker SDK is the library that support all those Flir cameras. And they seem to have C# support, so that would certainly be the way to go to support those cameras.
As an alternative, if you just need an industrial camera, have a look at:
Thank you Joreg for the explanation,
And yes I thinks I will go for ids or imaging for this project
(but we had this pointgrey at our disposition for testing and seems to be a good product as well)
For the the virtual camera, I dont get obs or notch cam virtual…
But I admit, even if its not essential, it could be nice to have an easy acces to those old system as well without to much work around…
Anyway, thank you for the clarification! :)
Well, here the camera access is handled by the underlying chromium browser, so there is quite some overhead involved. but obviously if it’s good enough for your scenario, then why not.
Here is a patch that I threw together a while ago from the Spinnaker C# API. It’s been running 4x Blackfly S GigE cameras constantly for more than a year now without issues.
