When it mostly works but is glitchy - as in your case - it's very difficult to deal with When it fails completely you often get an error code from DirectShow and maybe you can work out why and fix it. DirectShow does all the talking to the webcam driver, grabbing frames, displaying them, saving them to AVI, etc. Well, it's kind of hard to say what's going to be the cause - with WebCams, SharpCap (and other capture software) doesn't actually have to do a great deal of the work itself - it just orders the DirectShow framework around - tells it which device to connect to, which window to show the preview to, which file to save to and lets DirectShow get on with it. I've installed the latest CL Eye driver and the preview in Sharpcap works fine. Could it be that the camera isn't saving the data as avi? I run a Quickcam 4000 on a very old laptop and don't have these problems. avi when I first tried to open it, so it would open in those players. It happens when I try to play the vids in Window Media Player or VLC. I've tried lower frame rates and resolutions and I have the same problem every time.
I'm using Sharpcap to record, but i have this problem on Craterlet as well. The computer is an 8 core, 8gb DDR3 RAM, Windows 7 (64 bit) desktop so I would've thought it would handle it. This happens at 10fps which is quite low.
The best way to explain it is the files appear very speeded up and don't last as long as originally recorded. I've done some test vids and when I've tried to play them back they're very choppy, like they're missing frames yet the right frame number appears in registax. I've not modded it yet, I'm just trying to get it working generally. Hi, I have a Playstation 3 Eye webcam that I am testing for astro use.