Pose Estimation Live Camera Issues in Omniverse Machinima

Omniverse General Discussion
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I’m experiencing recurring issues with the live camera feature when using Pose Estimation in Omniverse Machinima. Despite my best efforts, I’ve only managed to get it working correctly once. Here’s a summary of the problems I’ve encountered:

After selecting the “Stream Live Camera” button I usually experience of the following issues:

  1. Camera dropdown not populated: When selecting “Stream Live Camera”, the “Select Input Camera” dropdown remains empty, requiring multiple attempts at clicking “Video Source” and “Stream Live Camera” to eventually populate.
  2. Camera options do not work: Even when the dropdown is populated, none of the camera options function properly. Clicking between them repeatedly can sometimes resolve the issue.
  3. Machinima becomes unresponsive: In some cases, the live camera loads correctly, but Omniverse Machinima freezes and must be forced closed because it will never recover.

I’m eager to find a solution to these issues and appreciate any help or guidance that can be offered.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

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I am sorry you are having issues with Machinima but unfortunately as I have stated several times on this forum Machinima is old… really old. It has been discontinued for 2 years. We have no support for it, nor do we encourage anyone to use it.

I am sorry but we simply to not support any character workflow in Omniverse now. All character workflow has moved to ACE.

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Thank you for the prompt reply.

It was not clear to me that Machinima was discontinued because of its availability in Omniverse Launcher. Also, there was no mention of Machinima being discontinued on the Machinima Overview page nor the Launcher. Maybe it would be beneficial for both these locations to list Machinima as discontinued? Thank you for your assistance.

Also, that’s very disappointing that character workflow in Omniverse will not be supported by NVIDIA. Are there any suggested 3rd party alternatives?

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Yes I completely understand. I will talk to the team about removing it from Launcher.

As for character workflows, you should try NVIDIA ACE