View from Caedmon Hall onto the Acre

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Monday, March 15, 2010

Work-around for camera capture problem

I was able to find a work-around for the problem of the camera capture software: After the porting of the software to the "new" computer it sometimes went into a state where the DirectX camera preview just stopped. This did not manifest itself as an error, but instead the software kept running as if nothing had happened - and kept uploading the image that had last been captured ok. Only a restart of the software helped - so I programmed into the software an automatic restart at midnight.

This seems to work - I noticed yesterday that the image had again been frozen; now, however, the image is being updated ok.

Is not an ideal fix - I would like to explore what the true reason for this error is... but at least for now the camera capture works as intended.