Comments on: PS3 Eye Camera Drivers Updated for Windows: Fixes, Performance, Options, Awesomeness

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:11:27 +0000

hi laker, download avast antivirus free, it doesnt detect it as a virus, try it and get back to me! Thanks Dan

By: Laker

Laker — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:50:51 +0000

Hi, I bought the PS3 Eye cam, as I want to use it with an application… but its not letting me download the driver, I got here: http://codelaboratories.com/products/eye/driver/” rel=”nofollow”>;http://codelaboratories.com/products/eye/driver/
and when I click "Run" Nothing happens!! And before, My McAfee detected it as a trojan! This is so annoying…can someone please help

By: Bob Smith

Bob Smith — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 19:41:58 +0000

I just linked to the download and my McAfree detected a trojan, so beware.

By: Adriaan Wormgoor

Adriaan Wormgoor — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:16:29 +0000

I'm actually quite curious how you got this running in Processing in the first place. Which version of GSVideo are you using? I'm now using AlexP's PS3 Driver, which works fine, I'm getting video in the test app and also in Flash apps. In Processing I'm using GSVideo 0.6. GSVideo is now shipped with a bucketload of dll's, as far as I understand this eliminates the need for extra installation of gstreamer-related stuff…. right? What am I missing?

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:44:10 +0000

Well, there are a couple of possibilities:
1. The driver developers don't know what they're doing. (And that could really mean "don't know," as in the necessary APIs aren't fully documented.)

2. There's some underlying limitation that's preventing reliable performance via USB.

(or both, of course)

Getting video input to work on any platform can be a black art. I'd be interested to know the specifics, though, and I will say – a lot of folks I know doing critical computer vision applications have wound up sticking to Windows or Linux. Just sayin' – they're options.

By: Torley

Torley — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 07:58:15 +0000

This is worth looking (ha ha) more into. Related to Peter, I've experienced a number of blockages and disappointing performance re: Mac webcams. Even Logitech's supposed top QuickCam Vision Pro performs very inconsistently compared to its Windows counterpart.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:32:16 +0000

It's definitely not the hardware. The issue is frame throughput and USB – it's one thing to get it working, another to be able to get jitter-free frames at higher rates.

Again, expect more luck with Windows and Linux. There are actually a number of reasons that it's worth booting into those operating systems for capture-intensive applications. I've had more luck with higher throughputs from a variety of hardware. That may not be some inherent weakness of Mac OS — it may be more like, the people writing the drivers having more experience with the other operating systems. Generally, this is darned tricky to do, whether open source or otherwise.

By: Nat

Nat — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:23:02 +0000

I have the same issue on Mac, will usually top at 24fps. Not sure if it's my hardware or that the macam component for the ps3eye is not optimized.. Or perhaps both.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:42:15 +0000

I'll admit, I don't know that much about the capture APIs on Mac OS, so I'll refrain from speculating about what's happening there with this driver. I have seen maccam be fairly reliable, though, at 30 frames. If you want higher frame counts and don't want to run Windows, I'd give Linux a try. It's free, and it'll dual boot with Mac OS using http://refit.sourceforge.net/

By: julapy

julapy — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:29:00 +0000

im on a mac and have not been able to hit those sort of framerates at 640.

found the performance to bog down applications in openFrameworks, so I've gone back the external firewire iSight.

a little jealous that windows gets to take full advantage of this camera.