IOXperts Video 1.1.2b7 posted
Paul
4paul3 at gmail.com
Tue May 13 20:30:04 EDT 2008
Steve,
When you say:
1) There is a problem related to specific firmware version of newer (USB
Video Class compliant) Logitech cameras -- the symptom is the camera
becoming wedged when streaming at certain resolutions.
What are those resolutions so we can avoid them?
Paul
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Steve Sisak <steve.sisak at ioxperts.com>
wrote:
> Available here:
>
> <http://www.ioxperts.com/downloads/Video/Beta/1.1.2b7/>
> <ftp://ftp.ioxperts.com/IOXperts/Video/Beta/1.1.2b7/>
>
> This release expires July 1, 2008
>
> This release is primarily a checkpoint and regression test for an internal
> cleanup of the FireWire code in preparation to make another try at getting
> it working on Intel.
>
> At the moment, as far as I can tell, FireWire now works under Rosetta on
> Intel machines under both Tiger and Leopard, but isn't working in Leopard on
> my G5 Quad, for reasons I can't determine -- including wether the problem is
> isolated to my machine.
>
> (I had the entire FireWire bus on that machine vanish under Lepoard,
> although it was working if I rebooted to Tiger -- it came back after a clean
> install of Leopard this morning, but I'm not sure what to trust at the
> moment)
>
> Also the errors I'm now getting w/r/t FireWire native on Intel lead me to
> believe that I may be close to having it working (I'm getting what look like
> byte-swapping bugs rather than a hang stopping the video stream) -- not
> committing to anything yet, but it's looking encouraging.
>
> I'd appreciate any help in determining:
>
> 1) That nothing works worse than the previous release (that I didn't
> introduce any new bugs in the cleanup)
>
> 2) Where FireWire support works and where it doesn't at the moment. (It
> should be working everywhere but native Intel, including under Rosetta, but
> might be having an issue on Leopard+PPC -- I'd like a matrix to try and
> track this down)
>
> Also I bumped the expiration date out another month, just to be safe.
>
> Thanks again for your help,
>
> -Steve
>
> ------------
>
> Know issues:
>
> 1) There is a problem related to specific firmware version of newer (USB
> Video Class compliant) Logitech cameras -- the symptom is the camera
> becoming wedged when streaming at certain resolutions.
>
> 2) There is a bug that sometimes creates strangely named files at the root
> of your hard drive -- I can not reproduce the problem here, but they appear
> to be harmless -- still looking for the cause of this.
>
> ----- changes in 1.1.2b6 -----
>
> bump expiration date (no substantial changes)
>
> ----- changes in 1.1.2b5 -----
>
> Fix bug where screen image ends up as two blue squares over some noise,
> like this:
>
> <http://www.laservall.com/~francesco.rolando/screenshot_04.jpg<http://www.laservall.com/%7Efrancesco.rolando/screenshot_04.jpg>
> >
>
> when video is resized from 320x240 to 640x480.
>
> It may also fix the other reported crash in the Apple RAW codec, where the
> top of the stack of the crashed thread looks like this:
>
> Thread 0 Crashed:
> > 0 ...ickTimeComponents.component 0x99cffe1c Copy32ARGB32ARGBScale
> > + 156
> > 1 ...ickTimeComponents.component 0x99cfcc88 RAW_CDDrawBand + 2104
> > 2 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x90bdf030
> > CallComponentFunctionCommon + 1044
> > 3 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x90bdebb8 CallComponent + 260
> > 4 ...ickTimeComponents.component 0x9a7826e8 ImageCodecDrawBand +
> > 40
> > 5 ...ickTimeComponents.component 0x99c37cec
> > BaseCodec_DecompressWorkFunction + 1324
> > <snip>
> >
>
> Improvements to internal resource loading.
>
> ----- changes in 1.1.2b4 -----
>
> Bump expiration date, improved logging.
>
> ----- changes in 1.1.2b3 -----
>
> Don't attempt to cache preferences at static init time -- causing
> coreaudiod to crash
>
> ----- changes in 1.1.2b2 -----
>
> Change Isoc stream logic to be tolerant of Leopard's high USB call
> latency:
>
> Don't attempt to calculate if we're close to the current time: try a block
> of frames and see if we get a TooOld error
>
> ----- changes in 1.1.2b1 -----
>
> Bump expiration date to 4/1
>
> ----- changes in 1.1.2a47 -----
>
> Fixed the double-install bug -- you should now be able to install over any
> version of the driver on any OS version.
>
> ----- changes in 1.1.2a46 -----
>
> The new serial number scheme is in place for all drivers (USB Webcam,
> FireWire Webcam, FireWire Industrial) so that new purchases will have a new
> (1.2) serial number.
>
> Old serial numbers are now properly recognized and supported until we have
> an automatic upgrade system in place. (Fixed a bug in a46)
>
> ----- changes in 1.1.2a45 -----
>
> I think we have the new serial number scheme is in place and new purchase
> with get a new (1.2) serial number -- this release should work with a 1.1
> serial number and 1.2 serial numbers should work with any previous driver.
>
> I also may have fixed a crash where QuickTime was crashing if fed a
> 0-length MJPEG buffer.
>
> ----- changes in 1.1.2a44 -----
>
> Bump expiration date, fix web page.
>
> <http://www.ioxperts.com/products/webcamx_1.2.html>
>
> ----- changes in 1.1.2a43 -----
>
> This release is mostly to bump the expiration date before 1.1.2a42 expires
>
> I'm still working on the purchase and registration code, but made a number
> of improvements to the logging code so that it won't log anything (and fill
> up your hard drive) if you leave an expired demo running after the 30 minute
> limit.
>
> Also, this version is built with Xcode 2.5 (rather than 2.4.1) so that I
> can debug on both Tiger and Leopard.
>
> As always, please report any problems.
>
> Also, we've added updated compatibility notes on our website for Leopard
> and various previous operating system <
> http://www.ioxperts.com/leopard.html> -- please let me know if you see
> anything incorrect.
>
> (We're still cleaning up the pages, but figured is was better to have
> something close to correct posted rather than waiting longer)
>
> Happy New Year,
>
> -Steve
>
> ----- changes in 1.1.2a42 -----
>
> This is also primarily a regression test release as I've been cleaning up
> the purchase and registration code in preparation for doing a paid update.
>
> (If you're currently testing a demo version and are about to purchase a
> copy, please contact me off list as I could use some help verifying the
> process once it's ready)
>
> Also, I bumped the demo expiration date to 12/31 as the current betas
> expire in in 3 days on 12/15. Please speak up if there are any problems so
> they can be fixed before that happens.
>
> Known issues:
>
> 1) Installing over 1.1.2a38 or later will give "no cameras" -- reboot and
> reinstall to work-around (2nd install will work).
>
> ----- changes in 1.1.2a41 -----
>
>
> This is primarily a regression test and should be functionally identical
> to 1.1.2a39 except that I've done a major cleanup of the core logging code
> to allow better debugging of application initialization and IPC.
>
> I'd appreciate it if you could verify that no new bugs are introduced
> relative to a39 while I add code that takes advantage to the new
> functionaity.
>
> ----- changes in 1.1.2a39 -----
>
> Fixed a crash in the logging version of the driver for the divio chipset
> (passing a class instead of POD type to printf())
>
> ----- changes in 1.1.2a38 -----
>
> Change ioxdeviced from StartupItem to launch-on-demand launchd daemon.
>
> This fixes the problem with ioxdeviced quitting, resulting in no cameras
> being visible -- it also has a bit more logging in case there is still a
> problem.
>
> My suspicion is that the daemon was being loaded to soon and either
> getting in contention with one of the Apple drivers for the hardware or
> running before something was ready.
>
> Under Mac OS 10.4 and later, it is now registered with launchd and loaded
> only when the video digitizer is accessed by QuickTime, which will be much
> later.
>
> It will also be relaunched automatically if it falls over.
>
> One thing I did notice is that there may be an installer problem if you
> install 1.1.2a38 over itself -- in this case no cameras will appear in
> Camera Identifier. Please let me know if you see this problem, but you can
> work around it by rebooting and installing again.
>
> ----- changes in 1.1.2a35,36,37 -----
>
> bump expiration date.
>
> ----- changes in 1.1.2a34 -----
>
> This is functionally equivalent to a33, except that I've updated to the
> latest eSellerate SDK and added support for a few new Logitech cameras.
>
> ----- changes in 1.1.2a34 -----
>
> Update to latest eSellerate SDK
>
> Support for new Logitech cameras
>
> ----- changes in 1.1.2a33 -----
>
> Changes to Isochronous bandwidth allocation code and Isoc stream startup
> code to prevent stream from restarting when stopping
>
> ----- changes in 1.1.2a29 -----
>
> Fix to correct Gamma on newer Logitech cameras
>
> Possible fix (and additional logging to detect) the Skype crash
>
> Prefer YUY2 over MJPEG in UVC video mode selection
>
> ----- changes in 1.1.2a28 -----
>
> 1.1.2a28 extends the expiration date and includes a few minor performance
> improvements.
>
> I've also added some additional logging to try and isolate the problem
> with the Philips SPC900NC not being detected after restart.
>
> ----- changes in 1.1.2a27 -----
>
> Enabled Intel support for VLSI Vision CPiA-based Cameras
>
> Use physically contiguous Isoch buffers on CPiA and Philips-based cameras.
>
> Allow Isoch pipe reset when stopping stream -- should speed start/stop
>
> ----- changes in 1.1.2a26 -----
>
> Added Intel support for cameras based on the Divio NW801 and NW802
> chipsets.
>
> Also fixed a few byte swapping errors in common code that may have caused
> a few isolated problems.
>
> ----- changes in 1.1.2a21 -----
>
> If you're having problems with crashes in Skype, this build _may_ help.
>
> The primary change is that it holds off on some initialization of the
> video pipeline until the as late as possible -- this may provide a slight
> performance increase as well.
>
> Hopefully there will be a matching Skype update to address the threading
> issues we've been seeing.
>
> The cause of the registration dialog popping up multiple times in Skype is
> that Skype is opening and closing the digitizer multiple times at startup --
> this is not a problem, but somewhat annoying -- I'm looking at a fix to make
> the dialog appear only once per application launch.
>
> ----- changes in 1.1.2a20 -----
>
> 1.1.2a20 adds support for Face Tracking on Intel-based machines.
>
> In the process, we've done major work on the software pan/tilt/zoom code
> which should result in improved performance, but should be tested thoroughly
> for compatibility as there are significant differences in the math.
>
> ----- changes in 1.1.2a18 -----
>
> This is primarily to bump the expiration date as 1.1.2a17 expired today,
> but we may have fixed a problem in the camera registration code that could
> cause a camera to not be recognized under certain circumstances.
>
> For anyone who has one of the newer Logitech cameras and is having
> problems with the audio, drop me a note off-list -- we have an audio driver
> that works aroud the bug in the camera about ready for testing.
>
> ----- changes in 1.1.2a17 -----
>
> This should fix the problems a few of you reported with the QuickCam Pro
> 5000, Fusion, and (Black) QuickCam for Notebooks Pro.
>
> The issue was that the firmware in those cameras returns incorrect data
> for some of the controls related to the snapshot function, and the driver
> caught and reported the error, unfortunately causing it to fail on load with
> those cameras.
>
> I've added code in the driver to work around the bug -- please versify
> that the problem is fixed and that the fix didn't cause issues with any
> other cameras.
>
> There is still a known issue that the snapshot button on the new Logitech
> cameras in not working -- I was hoping to get it fixed, but didn't want to
> hold up getting something out with the previous version expired.
>
> ---------
>
> As always, please post any problems to the list.
>
> --
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