Hey guys,

I'm working on a project that uses color tracking in GEM at the core of its process and I've managed to get the feeds from two fire-i webcams but for some reason I can't seem to lower the resolution.

As in, unless I set "dimen 1200 1600" I either get a cropped portion of the video feed or some sort of green pixel-y mess when I try anything else.

I've tried going into the dialog box but the settings just don't seem to stick. Even the preview window only shows a fraction of the video input.
The default setting seems to be: "Component Video CCIR"

Any ideas?

It's seriously eating up the cpu load and like, being a bit of a hassle.

Any thoughts?
I'd greatly appreciate any help!

Owen.

yup!

It's super weird.

[pix_videoDarwin]: using RGB
[pix_videoDarwin]: height 480 width 640
[pix_videoDarwin]: starting reset
[pix_videoDarwin]: SG channnel Device List count 6 index 4
[pix_videoDarwin]: SG channnel Device List DV Video
[pix_videoDarwin]: SG channnel Device List DVCPRO HD (1080i50)
[pix_videoDarwin]: SG channnel Device List DVCPRO HD (1080i60)
[pix_videoDarwin]: SG channnel Device List DVCPRO HD (720p60)>
[pix_videoDarwin]: SG channnel Device List IIDC FireWire Videofstg
[pix_videoDarwin]: SG channnel Device List USB Video Class Video
[pix_videoDarwin]: SG channnel Input Device List 0 unibrain Fire-i
error: [pix_videoDarwin]: SGSetChannelDevice returned error -9408
error: [pix_videoDarwin]: SGSetChannelDeviceInput returned error 709
[pix_videoDarwin]: vdigName is unibrain Fire-i
[pix_videoDarwin]: digitizer rect is top 0 bottom 1200 left 0 right 1600
[pix_videoDarwin]: active src rect is top 0 bottom 1200 left 0 right 1600

that's kind of the extent of the messages and I don't really know what to make of it. What's with all that HD jazz? I certainly don't want that.

but yeah, so far, I can only get 1200 1600 and higher. Maybe if I worked in YUV?

edit: I forgot to mention that I'm running a macbook pro with snow leopard.