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Patrick Schmidt
March 22nd, 2006, 03:02 AM
hello

i've been working with artoolkit for 2 weeks now. It works very well with my usb philips webcam. But i am trying to run the test programs with a ntsc (composite) camera. I switched it on my pc/tv card and choosed the Vfw/WDM32.dll in the AMCAP-program, but it still doesn't work. Do i have to set the Vfw/WDM32.dll somewhere else? I think the problem is to open the video path. The arVideoOpen(vconf)-value is probably =-1. Errormessage is "Unable to open connection to camera". Is it possible that i'll have to change the configuration of the WDM_camera_flipV.xml file. If yes what changes do i have to do?

philip_lamb
March 22nd, 2006, 01:02 PM
Yes, you'll have to edit the WDM_camera_flipV.xml, changing the friendlyName parameter to match the DirectShow friendly name of your camera.

You can use DirectShow GraphEdit to find out the friendly name of your camera, as discussed very nicely in http://www.hitlabnz.org/forum/showthread.php?t=258