vmaslov wrote:
Do you have a consistent effect regardless of the USB ports used to connect cameras?
For example, try connecting all 4 cameras to built-in USB ports (2 per each USB controller), or connecting all to PCI cards (2 per each).
How did you manage to record at 320x240@180, as iPi Recorder does not provide high FPS modes for PS Eye?
Yes. Here are some example scenarios of testing:
Single Test:
PS3 Camera -> USB3 port
-CL-Eye Test software records 320x240 @ 187 FPS no problem, no skipped frames, no issues with disk. (SSD and/or RAMdisk)
-CL-Eye Test software also records 640x480 @ 75 FPS no problem, no skipped frames, no issues with disk. (SSD and/or RAMdisk)
-ipiRecorder 1.8 drops massive frames at 640x480 @ 40 FPS
-ipiRecorder 1.8 greens out camera image 640x480 @ above 40 FPS
Separate Bandwidth Test:
PS3 Camera -> USB3 port (labeled camera #1, so it is used by CL-Eye Test software)
PS3 Camera -> USB2 port using separate PCI card
PS3 Camera -> USB2 port using another separate PCI card
-CL-Eye Test software records 320x240 @ 187 FPS no problem, no skipped frames, no issues with disk. (SSD and/or RAMdisk)
-CL-Eye Test software also records 640x480 @ 75 FPS no problem, no skipped frames, no issues with disk. (SSD and/or RAMdisk)
-ipiRecorder 1.8 drops massive frames at 640x480 @ 40 FPS
-ipiRecorder 1.8 greens out camera image 640x480 @ above 40 FPS
(USB3 camera tends to drop fewer frames but is still unusable)
I know the 1.x software isn't supported but as I've said many times on the forum, frame rate is exceedingly important to me and it appears the CL-Eye driver really DOES work at 75 FPS with a single camera and should if all cameras have separate bandwidth (I am willing to buy multiple PCI to USB3 adapters for this). Is there any reason why the CL-Eye Test software would work but iPi Recorder does not despite way lower frame rate settings?
(iPi Recorder is using YUY2 settings because the Bayer RAW format is unusable since no one seems to know how to convert from RAW to RGB; I am not sure how CL-Eye Test records it but it is not in RAW, it is in RGB AVI format)I am very willing to pay for a version of software that records 4+ cameras at 75 FPS @ 640x480 and 180 FPS @ 320x240 if it's a reasonable sum. Just frustrating since those modes very obviously work using the CL-Eye Test software but do not in iPi Recorder.