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Re: VC limitations - Is there an alternative?
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 25 Feb 2002 21:25:17 GMT
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Thomas Hoeg-Jensen & Helle Ulsteen <ludovica@iname.NOMORESPAMcom>
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From Lego Studios, I have been able to access other cameras by editing a line in
Registry
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\LEGO Media\LEGO Studios\Capture
Video capture driver name
LEGO Cam
If you change this value to the name of your alternative cam (name as noted from
System control panel),
Studios will use this cam. I imagine something similar could be done with Vision
Command,
but I am not sure which entry to edit, and the VC's entries are more complex
Studios'.
Oddly, neighboring values define Studios camera resolution, but when I try to
change these, they automatically revert back to the original values.
Beware, messing with Registry is potentially dangerous for Windows!
- Thomas Hoeg-Jensen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Limbaugh" <rlimbaugh@ureach.com>
To: <lego-robotics@crynwr.com>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 2:36 AM
Subject: VC limitations - Is there an alternative?
> Hopefully this topic hasn't been beat to death...
>
> Over the past few months I've been able to borrow quite a few web cams and
> only
> the Logitech USB ones work (which makes sense considering the Lego cam is
> Logitech), except for a parallel port QuickCam VC (back when Logitech was
> Connectix) even though there are newer drivers for it.
>
> The VC software gives an error in the tour saying a USB camera cannot be
> detected. The computer I was playing with didn't have a USB port so I
> couldn't
> bypass the tours and try the normal VC software with the parallel cam... I'll
> try that later this week.
>
> I wanted to see if the original camera drivers would work for each cam I
> tried,
> so I never installed the Lego Cam drivers (even for the Lego Cam itself, as it
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> works with the other Logitech drivers). No matter what model Logitech cam I
> hooked up, it always worked with VC (except the parallel port version).
>
> What I'm wondering is how the camera is accessed. If the VC software is using
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> standard access methods under Windows but checking to see if the driver for
> the
> device is "Logitech", then perhaps one could re-brand drivers for other
> devices
> to bluff the system into thinking they are Logitech USB cams, such as an X10
> cam or other video input device.
>
> If anyone has looked into any of this, or if there's a replacement for VC that
>
> overcomes this video source limitation, please post, especially if someone has
>
> found a way to deal with stereo-vison on one computer.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
>
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