[vlc] Re: Crash on 3 different systems WinXP Home/Logitech Quickcam Express/VLC 0.8.1/0.7.2

[Benjamin Pracht]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005, Philip Mucci wrote :
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm at the end of my rope, I've scoured google, the faq, the forums and
> the mailing lists and haven't come up with anything.
> 
> I'm in the midst of working on a teleteaching project here in Nepal.
> (I'm a computer scientist donating some time, so you don't have to ask
> me if the cable was plugged in. ;-)
> 
> For this project, we were hoping to use VideoLan with an array of
> donated Logitech Quickcam Express and a variety of window's boxes (I'm a
> linux guy myself) running XP Home and 98SE. Videolan worked wonderfully
> on my Thinkpad T23 with Logitech Notebook Pro 4000 back at the office,
> so I thought this was going to be a piece of cake. 
> 
> No such luck.
> 
> On every system XP Home system I have access to here, I can blue screen
> the system instantly by:
> 
> 1) Using the wizard to start an HTTP stream from the camera, basically
> just click refresh on the video device, click logitech and continue from
> there.
> 
> 2) Opening the capture device, repeat the refresh and click configure,
> bomb.
> 
> 3) doing 2 but not clicking configure and just continuing.
> 
> So, I read on one of the mailing lists that everything should be the
> latest and greatest, but is that really realistic for most of the world?
> Nevertheless, I downloaded the latest Direct X and Logitech drivers,
> still crash city.
> 
> The message from bluescreen?
> STOP: 0x0000007F (0x00000000,0x00000000,0x00000000,0x00000000)
> 
> If anyone has any tips on this, they are greatly appreciated. I'm not
> using this to send porn into my bedroom (not yet), I'm using this to
> bridge the education gap in remote villages in nepal. Getting this
> working really makes a difference.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 

Mmmh, looks like a bad interaction with the logitech driver... :( Have
you tried with the latest available drviers for the webcam, version of
directx ?

-- 
Benjamin Pracht

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