Hi folks,

Right this is wierd.

The software doesn’t work on my machine - I’m used a Logitech Quickcam Orbit. I’ve got the Flash 9 Player installed etc. - indeed there’s nothing “special” as far as I can see about my machine at home as appose to my machine at work (where the software does work - inbuilt webcam in the laptop).  When i run it - OSC, a demo you name it - all I get is the windows appearing but no output from the camera - all the applications appear to “hang” - apart from the main calling command window based one.  I saw it mentioned that the CONFIG.XML file could be edited and I played around with that giving it different camera names etc but it doesn’t want to know.

Help!.

Hmmm.

I’ve got it working!

But only with a work around - looks like profile corruption or something had gone funny as I created another user on the computer and was able to run the software without any problems.  The one thing that was different was that when I ran it - it asked me to select the camera.... How do I force this to happen again as this is what I think is the problem.

Hey Andy, let me know how its going.. What exactly are you running?

Hi,

I appear to have the exact same issue. I am running the 1.0Beta on XP. (The camera (a Unibrain Fire-i) comes up fine in the Unibrain software.) I’m going to try messing around with the config settings some more.

Bill

One strange thing is that during the driver installation for the unibrain, it wants to install some Windows Media Player 9 stuff. That didn’t sit well with me…

Bill

c.moore - 14 August 2007 02:59 AM

Hey Andy, let me know how its going.. What exactly are you running?

Hi,

Just trying out the Touchlib demo stuff (here - http://nuigroup.com/wiki/Installing_Touchlib_on_Windows/) and following it to the letter.  All the happens is that when I run it under my current user account, the command windows aren’t responsive and the capture windows etc that appear are blank.  The whole lot totally jams up and can’t be killed of with Task Manager - the only solution is to reboot.  As I said, when I created another user account on the machine and then tried it again - hey presto (except that this time it asks me for the camera source) - I assume this is because it can’t write to the config.xml file to save the selection (the user I created was a standard user I think - dunno, will have to check later)… So it appears that the other user account I normally use, either has some form of corruption or there’s a setting somewhere that I can change to ask it to prompt me for the camera to use (the locking up almost seems as if its looking in the wrong place).

That’s odd…I’m having the same problem, except the lockup isn’t that bad. If I look in the terminal window (behind the other windows), config registers a new capture every time I press “c”, but there is not visual feedback. I can close any of the windows manually, and I can also close the application. But application appears frozen, in that it won’t do anything visual.

Bill

Bill Evans - 14 August 2007 11:31 AM

That’s odd…I’m having the same problem, except the lockup isn’t that bad. If I look in the terminal window (behind the other windows), config registers a new capture every time I press “c”, but there is not visual feedback. I can close any of the windows manually, and I can also close the application. But application appears frozen, in that it won’t do anything visual.

Bill

Yeah, definitely sounds the same - just checked that account I created, it was a limited user one (which may explain why it keeps asking me for the camera to use every time I run the demo stuff).

I reverted to version 47, and intially had the same problem. Turned out:

1) The config file was referencing and avi file, instead of “cam”.

2) The OpenCV module just wasn’t working. The DirectShow one did, however.

With those two changes, I was to make things work.

Bill

I am having similar problems with a Fire-I.

Run the configapp.exe and I get 7 grey windows, cmd window but not camera image? It also doesn’t ask for a camera unless I have the Fire-I application running (through which I can see the cam working)

I’ve had a look at your suggestions Bill

Bill Evans - 14 August 2007 02:10 PM

1) The config file was referencing and avi file, instead of “cam”.

2) The OpenCV module just wasn’t working. The DirectShow one did, however.

My config files shows ‘cam’ but I am not sure how to change from OpenCV to DirectSHow.

This of course may not solve my problems - but any other suggestions gratefully received.

Thanks

Rich

richard,

open you r config.xml file and change the cam part so, starting with the filtergraph, it looks like :

and then the rest of the config