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kalavaras's avatar
kalavaras
Honored Guest
8 years ago

CameraTool.exe error: "can not find camera vid pid"

I tried to use the Oculus CameraTool.exe as specified in the
instructions here
https://support.oculus.com/guides/rift/latest/concepts/mr-camera/ with
an SLR camera hooked in to an Elgato Game Capture HD60 Pro PCI-E HDMI
capture card.

In the camera calibration step I
press the calibrate camera button and it lists the input in the next
screen as "Game Capture HD60 Pro (Video) (#01)" and then I press next.
The
problem is that in the screen after that. It shows an error: "can not
find camera vid pid. Please close this tool and trouble-shoot your
camera."

Has anyone had luck with the calibration tool in a similar setup?

In
the assets fold there is an xml file called "in_VID5.xml". In that file
you can set an input. Could I somehow fix this if I knew the input ID
in the right format?


Mixed Reality

5 Replies

  • Iniq's avatar
    Iniq
    Honored Guest
    8 years ago
    I am receiving this error when attempting to connect to the virtual camera supplied by OBS VirtualCam plugin. I am using Kinect v2, and video is mirrored on x from a traditional camera which makes calibration nearly impossible using the tool. In addition, I am running a virtual greenscreen with the depth data to cut out background and I'd like to deliver the post-greenscreen footage to the oculus runtime for direct compositing. As it stands I have to jump through hoops of video mirroring to even get the virtual static camera calibrated, and direct compositing is fully out because the camera feed is mirrored on the x axis in the raw feed.

    Edit: Behavior is the same when using the ManyCam virtual camera driver
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    7 years ago
    any luck? having the same problem
  • Kantorus's avatar
    Kantorus
    Explorer
    7 years ago
    I'd like to use my iphone 11 as the camera souce, it is completly visibly in the obs Studio with either 'EpocCam' or 'e2eSoft iVCam' but I can not use OVRCameraCalibration as I get the VID PID error to. Is there a solution to this please.
  • doudoid's avatar
    doudoid
    Protege
    6 years ago
    +1, It looks like the Oculus team used OpenCV, which uses videoinput from Theodore Watson. Don't know where the lack if device identification is but that's from one of these frameworks
  • doudoid's avatar
    doudoid
    Protege
    6 years ago
    The only workaround I found for now is calibrating with a regular webcam, and then in OBS using the final cam at the exact same spot than the webcam and fine tuning the xml to match the camera's FOV.

    UPDATE : Ended up with the logitech BRIO, which works fine with the calibration tool in FullHD resolution.
    BUT, you can use the OBS chromakey with a 4K resolution @30fps, and then resize it to FullHD to match the mixed reality OBS scene.