USB webcam weirdness

Net Llama! netllama
Tue Nov 30 15:25:48 PST 2004


On 11/30/2004 10:46 AM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> I would be surprised if disconnecting and reconnecting the camera did
> not interfere with a program reading images. One must open the camera
> pretty much like a file. It is a state connection. Things like image
> size and format would not survive across module unloading. Which
> application are you using?

In the cronjob that takes the shots, i'm using vgrabbj with stamp:
http://vgrabbj.gecius.de/

However, i was seeing the same results yesterday using camstream (a Qt 
based app).


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