Havent had time to test it enough (read at all) for even an alpha-release yet but to give a hint of what’s in it i’ve uploaded the current documentation to libuvcc.dm9.se.
I’m also writing an obj-c (cocoa) wrapper for the whole thing but that one is not documented yet.
// sluggo
update: regarding the iSight, to get the it into uvc-ctrl menu it has to be active..
update 2: This was originally the release announcement for 1.0a, but i did some minor changes that i realized fixed some really annoying things in that version so i uploaded the new one (1.02a) and just replaced the download link here.. if you’re one of the first five to download the 1.0a version, i’m sorry!
here’s the new alpha version of uvc-ctrl, it looks pretty much as the screenshots in the previous post. function-wise it doesn’t differ much from the last one but it now comes with a native gui localized in english and swedish and is completely dependency-free. note that it’s a status-bar app so no windows are displayed until you select a camera in the menu. there are still some functions missing, most notably the cam-profiles.. also, i’ve only had the chance to test it on 10.6.8. if anyone would like to report success/fail on other os x versions that would be super!
since this is a complete rewrite any and all bug-reports are very welcome, either to sluggo@dm9.se or in the comments below. It would be great if the they included your os x-version, any messages from the Console-app in the Utilities folder (you can filter with the phrase se.dm9) and what led up to it.
lastly, since i wouldn’t be able to draw a stick-figure if my life depended on it there’s no icon!
uvc-ctrl-v1.02a.zip (unknown, 7,876 downloads)// sluggo
I’m not quite done with the new version of uvc-ctrl yet but i though i’ll give anyone that’s still interested an update..
the new version is a complete rewrite (not needing libusb and therefore distributed under the dm9 license), two part project. first there’s the uvcc-lib, a library that implements some of the stuff i’ve been missing in QTKit (enumeration of resolutions and fps´, direct access to vendor and device id etc), a few helper functions to tie it up with QTKit (getting a uvccCam struct that can be used to send uvc requests from a [QTCaptureDevice uniqueID] and so on) and of course a uvccSendRequest function. Then there’s the application which will be a status bar (or “menu bar”, dunno the apple lingo here) app capable of setting all the settings on any connected uvc compliant cam.
i thought i’d have this done by now but a work-project turned out occupy most of my summer. now i’m back, just moved into a new apartment and is trying to settle in and study for an exam i screwed up before leaving for the summer break.
next time i post it’ll be the new uvc-ctrl comming out.
update: still some kinks to work out.. but here’s a sneek preview
// sluggo
Tjosan Hejsan!!
FreeBSD 9 is out! got two exams, monday and wednesday, coming up so i won’t be able to mess around with it this weekend.. but the mba will soon be running the greatest BSD-version there is again.
In other, much less interesting news a new version of uvcc will be out soon. just haven’t had time to fix up the last bits and pieces of the new (and waaay less buggy) version of it yet.
// sluggo
new version out.
codename “ugly-code” is out!
with it you can kill auto-focus/-exposure/-white balance and set the absolute value of these manually on a uvc camera. the gui is really just thrown together and may not recognize your cam if it returns any error in the get-all request of uvcc.app/Contents/Resources/uvc-ctrl. it does however work nicely with the logitech c910 (on both x86_64 and i386 snowy leopards). a screenshot is available in the earlier post about it.
oh, and i stole the icon from somewhere on the internet.. can’t even remember where!
note: requires python 2.6, shipped with os x 10.6 – snowy leopard. so if you are running os x 10.5 you can update your python installation, or just wait.. ill get a new, python >= 2.5 version up in a while.
note 2: found a bug, the auto exposure slide should go from 1 to 8. selecting 0 will cause an error that goes unnoticed by (well, not that unnoticed.. you’ll notice the setting wasn’t saved)!
note 3: got some reports it isn’t working.. it seems alotta progs that use a webcam resets all settings (and thus turns on auto-whatever) when opened. This may very well be an apple driver “feat” but most people i’ve spoken with says it works well if they turn off the auto-whatever after starting said program.
btw, beer is good.
uvcc.zip (116.5 KiB, 3,205 downloads)// sluggo