tripletopper
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Ever since I updated from OBS classic to OBS Studio I've been having problems with my 2008 iMac which only has four USB ports and according to system only has two USB 2.0 ports.
Someone told me the limit to the number of cameras is the number of USB 2.0 ports natively available. I was planning to update my 2008 to 2014 but wasn't sure if I should update my 2012 to a 2014. Whether I buy one or two depends on the answers to the following questions:
If the computer natively has four USB 3.0 ports if it could be thought of as multiple USB 2.0 ports for each 3.0 port in terms of the camera limit. And therefore 5 USB 2.0 sources would easily fit.
I also got a 2012 iMac running the current version of obs using OS 10.13. there are only four USB 2.0 ports but there is a firewire port and a thunderbolt 1 Port. Is there a way I could pipe either my video capture card or use a FireWire camera to get my fifth source?
Also I heard the Apple OS could handle way more cameras than obs. Is there a way I can have a subscreen as the left eye and a subscreen as the right eye and then have a third screen take half the image of the left eye and half the image of the right eye as three separate scenes and combine them into one stereo image? Like treating the outputs of one scene as a source for another scene I guess that's what the virtual camera is.
At most I'm going to need is five or six capture sources two stereo cameras and one TV source that may be 2D or 3D.
Will a 2012 Mac Mini be able to handle five video sources, as in one main 2D or 3D game and two 3D cameras using two separate cameras to make the left and right eye?
Someone told me the limit to the number of cameras is the number of USB 2.0 ports natively available. I was planning to update my 2008 to 2014 but wasn't sure if I should update my 2012 to a 2014. Whether I buy one or two depends on the answers to the following questions:
If the computer natively has four USB 3.0 ports if it could be thought of as multiple USB 2.0 ports for each 3.0 port in terms of the camera limit. And therefore 5 USB 2.0 sources would easily fit.
I also got a 2012 iMac running the current version of obs using OS 10.13. there are only four USB 2.0 ports but there is a firewire port and a thunderbolt 1 Port. Is there a way I could pipe either my video capture card or use a FireWire camera to get my fifth source?
Also I heard the Apple OS could handle way more cameras than obs. Is there a way I can have a subscreen as the left eye and a subscreen as the right eye and then have a third screen take half the image of the left eye and half the image of the right eye as three separate scenes and combine them into one stereo image? Like treating the outputs of one scene as a source for another scene I guess that's what the virtual camera is.
At most I'm going to need is five or six capture sources two stereo cameras and one TV source that may be 2D or 3D.
Will a 2012 Mac Mini be able to handle five video sources, as in one main 2D or 3D game and two 3D cameras using two separate cameras to make the left and right eye?