I am having a problem with 2 screen capture filters posing as USB webcams (devices) and upsetting the use of these cameras. The two bad guys in this plot are:
USScreenCapture and Byte Scout Screen Capturing Filter
This is on two different PC's.
I first noticed this with a program on a 10 day trial called Handy AVI where one of them was suddenly listed as a webcam choice and I could not launch the real webcam. I could not resolve that issue and the trial ended and I am not sure if I could of fixed that problem or not.
Then I loaded a Java based webcam program called Yawcam. This worked fine for the first day but the Byte Scout screen camera has hijacked that one and the USB webcam has a malfunction. There were hundreds of overlapping desktop views and then the Byte Scout launched itself in a new window mirroring the desktop. That cam now has a total crash/malfunction.
On the free X Protect Smart Client the one cam was stable for 3 months now that single camera cannot load. (On a Win 8.1 PC)
Then in Blue Iris one was listed also in the screen capture tab (USScreen...) and I cannot connect with 2 different USB cams with BI and one had a error code of: 80040217()1005.
Today the USB camera was found and was stable for like 60 minutes but then that cam crashed and Windows says there was a device malfunction and I had to reboot the PC.
So I understand that the USScreen program is a part on windows but what about the Byte Scout one? I think it is causing most of my problems. Can I try to delete that?
Does anyone know of a stable webcam software for USB cams that has motion detect at a minimum? It does not have to send out to the web.
(Note: On my Logitech HD USB cam the internal software has been stable and it has motion detect but not a full screen view.)
So out of 2 PC's, 4 software programs and 4 USB cams, all different, I only have one cam working at present and have been troubleshooting for 2 hours or so. When I first started out years ago with BI the USB cams were generally stable but still had various problems.
Does anybody run a mixture of USB cams in a stable configuration?
What would you do?
Thanks,
Bill
USScreenCapture and Byte Scout Screen Capturing Filter
This is on two different PC's.
I first noticed this with a program on a 10 day trial called Handy AVI where one of them was suddenly listed as a webcam choice and I could not launch the real webcam. I could not resolve that issue and the trial ended and I am not sure if I could of fixed that problem or not.
Then I loaded a Java based webcam program called Yawcam. This worked fine for the first day but the Byte Scout screen camera has hijacked that one and the USB webcam has a malfunction. There were hundreds of overlapping desktop views and then the Byte Scout launched itself in a new window mirroring the desktop. That cam now has a total crash/malfunction.
On the free X Protect Smart Client the one cam was stable for 3 months now that single camera cannot load. (On a Win 8.1 PC)
Then in Blue Iris one was listed also in the screen capture tab (USScreen...) and I cannot connect with 2 different USB cams with BI and one had a error code of: 80040217()1005.
Today the USB camera was found and was stable for like 60 minutes but then that cam crashed and Windows says there was a device malfunction and I had to reboot the PC.
So I understand that the USScreen program is a part on windows but what about the Byte Scout one? I think it is causing most of my problems. Can I try to delete that?
Does anyone know of a stable webcam software for USB cams that has motion detect at a minimum? It does not have to send out to the web.
(Note: On my Logitech HD USB cam the internal software has been stable and it has motion detect but not a full screen view.)
So out of 2 PC's, 4 software programs and 4 USB cams, all different, I only have one cam working at present and have been troubleshooting for 2 hours or so. When I first started out years ago with BI the USB cams were generally stable but still had various problems.
Does anybody run a mixture of USB cams in a stable configuration?
What would you do?
Thanks,
Bill
