<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Good Afternoon,<DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">We are supporting an older (about 5 years old) IR camera system manufactured by cincinnati electronics. It has a pixel link 1394 interface. On a hunch, I downloaded the Industrial Camera driver, and it worked! Using the "evocam" application on a macosx 10.4.9 powerpc platform, I was able to view the live IR coming across the firewire. When I selected the source of the video (under </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><I>preferences</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">), I could see the "vitana 1394 CEIR" as the driver. The problem we are having is that we are trying to share the 1394 camera between two computers. The first one is the original legacy PC system. With our Mac we are essentially trying to "snoop" the 1394 signal coming from the camera and process the data independently. Unfortunately, each application on each system seems to "lock" the 1394 camera and prevent the other system from accessing the camera's data. I have written my own grabber using the quicktime sequence grabber, and it does the same thing. I noticed the original PC API (written by Vitana) has a "snoop" mode, where by it queries the camera for the channel is and snoops the data. Do you know if there is a way to do this in quicktime? </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Thanks!</SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Any help you could lend on this would greatly be appreciated!</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px">Bob Degenford</P></BODY></HTML>