First Hurdle

So my first major issue was getting the system up and running and able to work.
This was installing drivers, getting the kinects online and making sure I could record.
After scouring the internet for answers as to why I couldn't use two kinects on the current software I found that we needed an update - so grabbed a demo. This is what I'll be using, the demo of Ipi Soft 2.0 with two Kinects.

For quite a while I was having issues with frame rates and the amount of data I was getting from the infra red. It was quite minimal, and had quite an effect on the output.

FirstBVHFast from Joshua Griffin on Vimeo.

This is the first BVH animation. The reason the skeleton is so fast is due to the drops in the framerate of the recording. It went down to about 12fps - meaning it looks like an old black and white rollup film speed. This is pretty dire for what I need to be doing.

[edit] !! Figured out why it was at such a low framerate and can now use both kinects at 30fps perfectly. There were two main issues - and it's silly really. I was recording on Ipi Recorder both the infra red depth AND RGB data. This was too much for the kinects' bandwidth, which is why it was bottlenecked and started killing frames. Another issue (a slightly more minor one) was that I was running Ipi Studio (opposed to Ipi Recorder) at the same time. This obviously taxed the laptop too much and affected the output. Scary really.