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Drivers and libraries for the Xbox Kinect device on Windows, Linux, and OS X
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Unable to retrieve data from Kinect and external webcam simutaneously #596

Open josuerocha opened 4 years ago

josuerocha commented 4 years ago

Hello,

I am trying to retrieve data simultaneously from a Kinect and a regular webcam on Ubuntu 18.04. I am using LibFreenect to retrieve data from the Kinect and OpenCV Capture module to retrieve data from the webcam. Both devices work well separately.

However, when I launch both data grabbers simultaneously, neither the Kinect data nor the webcam data get retrieved. The terminal remains frozen, forcing me to manually kill the process in order to proceed.

Any help and ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.

floe commented 4 years ago

Hmm, I've had a similar issue once with a different sensor device and webcam, which turned out to be related to USB bandwidth allocation. If it's an UVC webcam, you can try the quirk described in https://github.com/floe/surface-streams/blob/master/config/uvcvideo.conf on your setup.