UK Newbie, Dual 1.42 GHz PPC, 10.5.2

[James Allen-Jones]

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Thanks Steve for your reply, I have downloaded and registered 1.1.2a47 and
> subscribed to the beta mailing list (obviously) as you suggested.
> IOX driver seemed to install fine & camera was recognised no prob.
> 
> I am new to all this so please forgive me if I supply spurious information at
> first, it will take a short while to get the hang of firstly, what should be
> happening and secondly, what info is helpful to you.
> 
> To recap, I am running Leopard (10.5.2) on a Dual 1.42 GHz PowerPC G4 (2GB
> RAM).  This will also run Tiger (10.4.11) from a different partition but I am
> trying to stick with the more up to date OS.
> 
> Originally, the only apps I had to handle the Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 were:
> 
> iChat (4.0.2)
> PhotoBooth (2.0.1 (72))
> 
> and they work but only with very limited camera functionality.  The PhotoBooth
> effects do work though.
> 
> I note you do not list them as supported on the website.  It will make sense
> then that I got the following error when trying to open the Camera Control:
> 
> 
> 
> (That¹s PhotoBooth in the background)
> 
> So next, I downloaded VideoViewer which initially opened a window showing ­
> IOX in the title bar which was encouraging and the camera came on & displayed.
> Then I tried to resize the window and it went blue.  Thereafter there were
> lots of beachballs, several force quits & restarts.  Desktop icons of hard
> drives took ages to appear on boot and so I deleted VideoViewer & uninstalled
> the IOX driver completely.
> 
> Bootup then returned to normal, iChat & PB working ok.
> 
> Then reinstalled the IOX driver,
> 
> 
> 
> To cut a long story short, have now had a few hours playing about.  If things
> went pear-shaped, ultimately culminating in a slow startup with beachballs
> (had a few of those), I deleted the Video Viewer package including the prefs
> plist, used the uninstaller with 1.1.2a47 (thanks) and restarted, checking
> iChat & PhotoBooth still worked in their basic form.
> 
> Ultimately got to VV to work ok but trying to resize the window always crashed
> it nastily.  VV preferences worked fine I achieved digital feedback in the
> audio settings which was a good sign! and the Video Source ­ Settings yielded
> an IOX window.  Therein I could set Frame Rate to 30fps which worked ­ yeah!,
> zoom & other settings in that panel all working though somewhere I came across
> greyed out tabs either side of one saying ŒImage¹ which said ŒColor¹ and
> ŒMechanics¹ (I think).
> 
> Adjustments worked fine in fact it pretty much did what it said on the tin but
> couldn¹t see anywhere in the IOX settings to change resolution and maybe
> that¹s not done there anyway and as I said, changing window sizes is a problem
> here with VV.
> 
> The IOX Camera Control itself worked fine from the dock doing much the same as
> from within VV prefs but will come back to that ...
> 
> Generally speaking, VV seems a bit Œdelicate¹ and unpredictable here at the mo
> (no offence intended).  It doesn¹t like opening after the m/c has slept and I
> worry that I¹ll do something too quickly and get beachballed so have deleted
> and uninstalled VV & IOX and will head off to look at BTV with a clean install
> of IOX.
> 
> I should have said before but all this is with a USB 1 connection through an
> Asante 7 port hub.  I know ... It¹s not ideal but don¹t want to change the
> rat¹s nest significantly at this stage to free up a machine port for the
> camera.  Anyway, I really should have a USB 2.0 feed and since having just
> also acquired an interest in the Elgato eyetv 250 plus, it started me thinking
> about connectivity matters.
> 
> This is apparently an interesting business.  Seems I can¹t find a reliable
> Firewire 800 to USB 2.0 converter/adapter (please don¹t laugh too loud if
> that¹s a stupid idea :)) Some retailers think there are hubs that will do it &
> Apple IM suggested an unpowered Belkin hub ­ hmmmmm (think we¹ll need power
> ...) so have a nice Apple techie from Greece getting back to me Monday (he¹s
> had a few queries like this).
> 
> Meantime, am wondering whether the Sonnet Allegro USB 2.0 will do (says G3 and
> up) since the Allegro Express needs a G5 apparently.  Any thoughts ?  Other
> cards etc ...
> 
> Bye for now, off to clean install & get BTV, will report back later, hope this
> was helpful.  Just say if there is some kind of Œformat¹ for these kind of
> mails ...
> 
> James.
> 
> 

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