PS3 eye / Playstation eye

in Using Cinder • 2 years ago

Hi everyone, this is my first post and I´d like to congratulate everyone behind cinder, so far I´ve had a great time with it, that said Does anyone know how to get the PS3 eye (playstation eye) working with cinder under OSX 10.6? I have the macam driver installed and I´ve been able to get the camera up and runnin in Processing ( you just copy “maccam.component” into “Library\QuickTime\”) but when I run the CaptureAdvanced example that comes with cinder´s sample code I get an error in the console saying:" 2010-09-05 18:31:20.415 CaptureAdvanced[3700:a0f] Error loading /Library/QuickTime/macam.component/Contents/MacOS/macam: dlopen(/Library/QuickTime/macam.component/Contents/MacOS/macam, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:

/Library/QuickTime/macam.component/Contents/MacOS/macam: GC capability mismatch

Found Device Built-in iSight ID: 0x2440000005ac8501

device is NOT available" The example does work fine with my macbook´s built in webcam, but doesn't seem to recognize the PS3 eye even though it´s connected since it doesn't appear listed on the found Devices list. Has anyone gotten any luck with non built in webcams ?

Thanks!

Replies(13)

sansumbre..

Re: PS3 eye / Playstation eye

2 years ago

I've been able to use both a Fire-i board camera and an external iSight without issue.

I think the cinder quicktime code fails to load any quicktime components. I received a similar error (GC capability mismatch) when I had iGlasses installed. iGlasses is a camera utility that works as a Quicktime plugin.

My suspicion is that since cinder is using the latest Mac OSX interface to quicktime (QTKit), it doesn't play nice with things made using older interfaces to quicktime. I suspect many plugins, like macam and iGlasses, are using the older QuickTime framework. It's possible Cinder could do something special to enable the older stuff, but I'm not sure what that would be.

andrewfb

Re: PS3 eye / Playstation eye

2 years ago

Hey - in general Cinder supports external cameras (ie if it works in say, iChat, it should work in Cinder). However the problem you're citing sounds like it's due to the macam driver not liking the absence or presence of garbage collection in your app. This doesn't make complete sense to me as we've done a fair amount of work to make sure that Cinder works both with and without garbage collection, but I'm not quite sure how that translates to QuickTime components. If you want to experiment, try changing the Objective-C Garbage Collection setting under the the GCC 4.2 section of your target settings and clean/rebuild. I'm not quite sure whether it should be Supported or Required, but it's worth a try with both. You might also try changing the equivalent setting of Cinder itself and rebuilding.

-Andrew

kimonsatan

Re: PS3 eye / Playstation eye

1 year ago

Hi,

I have the same problem. I've tried changing the garbage collection as suggest (both supported and required) but I still get this (when running the advanced capture example)

Found Device Built-in iSight ID: 0x2460000005ac8507

device is NOT available

Found Device macam #0: Sony HD Eye for PS3 (SLEH 00201) ID: com.apple.QTKit.legacydevice-macam #0: Sony HD Eye for PS3 (SLEH 00201)-vdig-wcam-mk

device is NOT available

strangely it says the internal i-sight also isn't available (though it works when I run the program ?).

I'm not sure how to change the garbage collection in Cinder itself. Is there no solution to this one ... Do I need a new web cam. If so any recommendations for something that definitely works with nice drivers ?

name_thom..

Re: PS3 eye / Playstation eye

1 year ago

Hi,

I also try to get the ps3 eye running with cinder. I used a modified maccam component from a thread in the openframeworks forum:

http://forum.openframeworks.cc/index.php?topic=1182.45

Two times, the camera worked perfectly. But most of the times, it ends up with one image and the following error message.

2011-08-05 23:22:46.026 Camera[1920:1450b] *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x9730a0 of class NSThread autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
bulkComplete: Error: kIOReturnAborted - operation aborted
bulkComplete: Error: kIOReturnAborted - operation aborted
bulkComplete: Error: kIOReturnAborted - operation aborted
startNextBulkRead-ReadPipeAsync: Error: kIOUSBEndpointNotFound - Not found

There is also a debug component which shows this more detailed output:

USB Library Version = 4.1.5
USB Family Version = 4.2.4
USB Interface ID = 424
USB Library Version = 4.1.5
USB Family Version = 4.2.4
USB Interface ID = 424
theo - we failed to set fps to 0
theo - we failed to set fps to 0
theo - we failed to set fps to 0
2011-08-05 23:28:09.597 Camera[1949:12923] *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x973600 of class NSThread autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
2011-08-05 23:28:09.637 Camera[1949:12923] Video frame delay = 5 ms.
2011-08-05 23:28:09.658 Camera[1949:12923] Video frame delay = 8 ms.
2011-08-05 23:28:09.671 Camera[1949:12923] Video frame delay = 5 ms.
startNextBulkRead-ReadPipeAsync: Error: kIOUSBEndpointNotFound - Not found
2011-08-05 23:28:09.798 Camera[1949:12923] Video frame delay = 13 ms.
startNextBulkRead-ReadPipeAsync: Error: kIOUSBEndpointNotFound - Not found

Maybe this "moded" component is a way to start. In the thread above there is also the source code available. But I'm not that experienced with this kind of stuff, so I hope somebody got an idea how to get this work...

Thomas

rhoades

Re: PS3 eye / Playstation eye

1 year ago

Has anyone made any progress on this? I am also trying to connect two PS3 Eye cameras to my computer and have tried the above options with no success.

dscheibel

Re: PS3 eye / Playstation eye

1 year ago

I quickly tried to run the PS3 Eye and ran into the same problems. Has anyone an easy fix for that?

onedayitw..

Re: PS3 eye / Playstation eye

1 year ago

Hi it seems a variation of this this may have been stated before, however we are currently working on a project using the PS3 Eye camera and have been sharing it across 3 different macs (2 laptops, one mac mini) - and luckily have not ran into any problems and they vary in configuration.

So in case it helps, the only thing we did to get it to work, was on each one individually install this maccam unmodified. Here is how we are instantiating it as well as a note placed in the comments for our own future reference, hopefully it helps

// Install maccam to use PS3 eye - http://webcam-osx.sourceforge.net/downloads.html
// Drag the component to library/applications
void OpenCVController::start() {
isVisible = true;
try {
// macam #0: Sony HD Eye for PS3 (SLEH 00201)
const std::vector<ci::Capture::DeviceRef>& devices = ci::Capture::getDevices();
for( std::vector<ci::Capture::DeviceRef>::const_iterator iter = devices.begin(); iter != devices.end(); ++iter ) {
std::cout << (*iter)->getName() << std::endl;
}
// Use PS3EYE if exist
ci::Capture::DeviceRef ps3Eye = ci::Capture::findDeviceByNameContains( "PS3" );
if( ps3Eye && ps3Eye->isConnected() ) mCap = ci::Capture( 640, 480, ps3Eye);
else mCap = ci::Capture( 640, 480 );
mCap.start();
} catch( ... ) {
std::cout << "Failed to initialize capture" << std::endl;
}
}

Mario Gonzalez

http://onedayitwillmake.com

joshuajno..

Re: PS3 eye / Playstation eye

1 year ago

This is a super-old post, but just to add my solution to this in case anyone else runs into it. On my work machine (MacBook 10.7.3) the Macam drivers seem to take a long time to initialize. If I delay calling Capture::start() on the PS3 Eye Capture instance until 500 millis after the call to Capture(w,h, devices.at(1)) it works fine, otherwise I get errors like this:

startNextBulkRead-ReadPipeAsync: Error: kIOUSBEndpointNotFound - Not found

Hopefully that's helpful to someone else someday.

http://thefactoryfactory.com

lvick

Re: PS3 eye / Playstation eye

11 months ago

Hi guys,

Thanks for all the tips. Has anyone come across a stable solution to this? I am trying to get the PS3 cam working myself and I come across the below issue. I'm using the standard macam build 0.9.2

*** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x9730a0 of class NSThread autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
startNextBulkRead-ReadPipeAsync: Error: kIOUSBEndpointNotFound - Not found

Joshua - I tried sleeping the thread for 5 seconds between the initialization to Capture and start. Did you use the standard c++ sleep, or a cinder lib native call. Perhaps the call you make still allows the driver to process while my sleep stops any background processing? Have you heard of any of your friends working with this solution.

onedayitwillmake - Can you let me know how your application picked up the driver? I see the capture project includes the QuickTime.framework which explains why it will pull in macam from the /Library/Quicktime folder. When I move to the /Library/Application folder (which I created), the driver doesn't even get pulled in. Either way I'm not convinced the folder makes a difference. Is your project still running and viewing the PS3 correctly? Anything else you may have done?

Both of these ideas don't sound like concrete solutions, anyone else have any luck?

thanks

jminator

Réf.: PS3 eye / Playstation eye

8 months ago

Hi guys,

Have you solved this problem yet?

I currently have the same problem. If I use the Quicktime dialog box, everything is okay. But if try to set the device to PS3 Eye automatically, i am getting the "startNextBulkRead-ReadPipeAsync: Error: kIOUSBEndpointNotFound - Not found" error.

Did you find a solution?

die.mo

Re: PS3 eye / Playstation eye

2 months ago

What is irritating is that the PS Eye still worked for me a few months ago. Then something in my system got updated, my suspect is Quicktime, and now I'm getting the abovementioned errors with the same Cinder code as before. (Mac OSX 10.6.8)
[Edit:] If I insist (a lot, up to 20 times) and reselect the PS Eye/restart the Capture, sometimes it will work.

[Edit:] I don't think macam is the culprit (although not being updated since 2009), since the PS Eye works reliably in every other software: QuickTimePlayer, Jitter, iChat, OpenFrameworks...
This makes it look like a problem in how Cinder initialises QuickTime cameras.

Thanks, at least it's good to not be alone.