@thomasfuchs I did not last long in that position lol. Thankfully I was able to switch to embedded dev in the same company. But man was that not what I was expecting.
@thomasfuchs When I started seriously learning software dev independently, I couldn't understand why people used libraries so invasive they may as well have been their own languages. I refused to learn things like JQuery and C++ Boost because I just wanted to know the underlying syntax.
I feel I became a more rounded developer going that route, but it made it much harder to get a job. I eventually landed a job by showing pure LAMP knowledge, only to be bait n' switched to using Sharepoint
@thomasfuchs I had to look up the camera after seeing it be so low res because I wasn't aware of a 90s 3D camera. I was pretty surprised to see it was so new lol!
Right now I've been using an Extron DVS-510 paired with any HDMI capture card that will do full RGB data. It's not perfect, but it's by far the most flexible I have used (which does not include any RetroTink products). The Extron can do Composite, S-Video, Component, VGA, and some other weird stuff if you can adapt it right. The timings are all very adjustable as well and I can get some pretty sold results
If you want a PCIe card, I love my Datapath VisionRGB e1s for VGA capture.
@thomasfuchs There are a lot of things I haven't messed with like an OSSC and RGB2HDMI. They are probably good, the Extron is just *cheap* while being really solid and the only thing I can't do with it is nearest-neighbor/line-doubling scaling.
Is there a particular thing you want to capture or are you looking for a catchall solution?
@thomasfuchs Ah yeah, they work fine on the later ones.
I have a Sony DVP-S9000ES which is early for SACD and the laser just isn't up to it anymore. It's just so wretchedly excessive for what it is that I really want to try it lol. They copper plated the *bottom* even!
Out of curiosity, do you have a native SACD or only hybrids? I've been meaning to pick up a native one some time but they were only made for like 1 year and are all not very exciting releases.
None of my cool Sony SACD players can detect the DVD layer on hybrid discs so I haven't messed with the format too much.
@thomasfuchs I'm actually surprised it's that low. XP era hardware is just barely still usable today for a lot of internet things and that hardware was plentiful and cheap for a long time.
I speculate smartphones have replaced it more than later Windows machines.
@thomasfuchs I could see that, but it would present an interesting dilemma. Presumably you would want landscape 3D for rear photos and video, but facetime is portrait. So the display would need to be capable of 3D in both axis (I'm not aware of any device or development capable of that).
Maybe just facetime could be done with 3D cameras and then use the tracking to fake a 3D display à la Johnny Lee Wiiimote tech demos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC_KKxAuLQw
@thomasfuchs I would love so much for Apple to make a 3D iPhone and drag us into another cycle of that. The last generation of them was just not quite ready like the HTC Evo 3D. But was getting really good.
I have an IPS panel "New" Nintendo 3DS and it is a genuinely fantastic experience. A little more dev time and I think it could be solved.