Dear All, How can I check if a camera already been opened by other programs? And if so can I check by which program it's opened? Thanks! Ahamade.
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:37:00 -0700, Ahamade wrote: > How can I check if a camera already been opened by other programs? And if so > can I check by which program it's opened? You already posted this in the online Vista forum. Please do not multi-post. See: http://tmhare.mvps.org/help.htm#mp And your question has been asked here before. You can find the answer by searching on this group in Google Groups. -- Please read this before replying: 1. Dshow & posting help: http://tmhare.mvps.org/help.htm 2. Trim & respond inline (please don't top post or snip everything) 3. Benefit others: follow up if you are helped or you found a solution
Sorry! But can you help to point out where it has been answered? I searched but couldn't find it. "The March Hare [MVP]" wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:37:00 -0700, Ahamade wrote: > > > How can I check if a camera already been opened by other programs? And if so > > can I check by which program it's opened? > > You already posted this in the online Vista forum. > > Please do not multi-post. > > See: http://tmhare.mvps.org/help.htm#mp > > And your question has been asked here before. You can find the answer by > searching on this group in Google Groups. > > -- > Please read this before replying: > 1. Dshow & posting help: http://tmhare.mvps.org/help.htm > 2. Trim & respond inline (please don't top post or snip everything) > 3. Benefit others: follow up if you are helped or you found a solution >
[ Please trim and quote inline as requested ] On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:42:02 -0700, Ahamade wrote: > Sorry! But can you help to point out where it has been answered? I searched > but couldn't find it. Here's one example that took a couple of minutes to locate on Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.win32.programmer.directx.video/browse_thread/thread/b9f28bd00dbf44b1/9394920f26e88cd4?lnk=gst&q=camera+already+running#9394920f26e88cd4 [ note that the answer to second part of your question--that it is not possible to detect the other application that is using the device--is implied ] -- Please read this before replying: 1. Dshow & posting help: http://tmhare.mvps.org/help.htm 2. Trim & respond inline (please don't top post or snip everything) 3. Benefit others: follow up if you are helped or you found a solution
Ahamade wrote: > >How can I check if a camera already been opened by other programs? And if so >can I check by which program it's opened? There are some issues here. Remember that a video source filter that can be used in Media Center must be allowed to be opened by several programs at once. Resources are not supposed to be committed until you move to "pause" or "run", at which time it will fail. -- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
