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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: Sir Alan on May 21, 2004, 04:40:57 pm

Title: Camera not recognized
Post by: Sir Alan on May 21, 2004, 04:40:57 pm

MC still does not handle a camera connection properly:  it reports «Camera is not ready» in the action window but lists and opens the camera under «Generic scanner».

Is there any way to enlarge the «live view» picture?

Title: Re:Camera not recognized
Post by: JimH on May 21, 2004, 04:52:40 pm

What kind of camera is it?

What do you mean by "live view"?  Where are you?  What do you see?

Title: Re:Camera not recognized
Post by: Sir Alan on May 21, 2004, 05:56:29 pm

The camera is an APX USB2 webcam connected to a USB port.

If I click «Camera» in the Action Window, the Acquire Images window appears with a dropdown list containing «Camera is not ready» and «Generic scanner».

If I then select «Generic scanner» and click Acquire I see a window called Select Source, listing my scanner by name (even though it is not actually plugged in), plus the camera.  With the camera name highlighted, clicking either Select or Cancel brings up a Live View window showing the camera's live output - this is presumably part of the camera's supplied software, for I get similar results using another camera, but a different viewing window.

Title: Re:Camera not recognized
Post by: JimH on May 22, 2004, 06:45:09 am

To recognize the camera, it needs to be plugged in and turned on.

I'm not sure whether a Web cam will work.

Title: Re:Camera not recognized
Post by: Sir Alan on May 22, 2004, 07:28:06 am

It is plugged in, it is turned on, but MC appears to think it's a scanner.  Like I said, it works fine if I select it from the scanner source list.  But as it's a camera I think it should be recognised as such.

Title: Re:Camera not recognized
Post by: urlwolf on May 22, 2004, 02:52:01 pm

Another camera that gets the same error message is the panasonic FZ1. That's not a webcam, but an independent camera, with great lenses I must say :D

Title: Re:Camera not recognized
Post by: mindracing on May 22, 2004, 04:16:51 pm

I get the same with my Fuji Finepix.

Title: Re:Camera not recognized
Post by: JimH on May 22, 2004, 05:41:41 pm

Is your version of MC reasonably current?

Title: Re:Camera not recognized
Post by: Sir Alan on May 22, 2004, 06:20:09 pm

10.0.140 - but I have reported this problem several times over the past few weeks.

Title: Re:Camera not recognized
Post by: mindracing on May 23, 2004, 02:05:31 am

I'm running 10.0.138.

Title: Re:Camera not recognized
Post by: urlwolf on May 24, 2004, 01:32:59 am

10.0.138 here.