[chimerax-users] Selecting a webcam

[Tom Goddard]

Hi Józef,

  Unfortunately the webcam command is just taking the first camera in a list.

  I've added a "name" option to the webcam command in tonight's ChimeraX builds to specify which camera you want.  To figure out the camera names first try the webcam command without the name option and it will report the available cameras.  Then close the web camera model and rerun webcam with the camera name you want, for example,

webcam
> Found multiple cameras: C922 Pro Stream Webcam, FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
> Using web camera "C922 Pro Stream Webcam", width 1920, height 1080, framerate 24

# Close web cam model.
close #2

webcam name "FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)"
> Found multiple cameras: C922 Pro Stream Webcam, FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
> Using web camera "FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)", width 1280, height 720, framerate 25

	Tom


> On Nov 13, 2020, at 7:32 AM, Lewandowski, Jozef <J.R.Lewandowski at warwick.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>  
> If I have multiple webcams installed on my laptop how would I select a specific webcam to use with the webcam command?
>  
> Thanks,
> Józef
>  
>  
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