You should be to choose a video input patch, and then go to the settings tab
on the patch inspector and see all connected devices. Occasionally, I've
seen devices not show up, but overall, this is the method.
-George Toledo

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Nathaniel Irons <[email protected]> wrote:

> Any advice for getting video input from a camera source other than an
> available built-in iSight?
>
> I've got an external iSight, of the old-school Firewire variety, and a
> project which relies on the camera facing away from the screen. It works
> fine in testing on a Mac Pro with no other camera source, but it'll be
> deployed on a laptop, and on the laptop, the Video Input patch is apparently
> too in love with the built-in iSight to admit the existence of any other
> camera. Our only known alternative is to drop Quartz Composer in favor of a
> lot of truly gross GUI Scripting, so I thought I'd ask.
>
> A C-based solution would be dandy. I'm inexpert with the Quicktime APIs,
> but this composition is already being incorporated in an app.
>
> Thanks,
>
>   -nat
>
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