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Using The Camera On A Surface 3

I recently got a fantastic deal on a Microsoft surface 3 (windows 8.1), and have been using it to make my AR Drone follow a little RC car around with ARC. I would like to mess around with using the camera on the tablet to control the drone, but it doesn't seem to want to start. I am sure I am doing something wrong here, because both the front and rear cameras show up in the drop down on the camera control. However, once I select a camera and push start, nothing happens. It doen't throw any errors in the debug window either. I know my computer is working, because I can use both cameras on the drone easily. Thank you.


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Synthiam
#1  

You can try a different resolution. If that doesn't work, i don't have a solution for you unfortunately

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#2  

thank you, I just tried that and got this error:

Error Initializing Camera: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80004005): Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component. at System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ThrowExceptionForHRInternal(Int32 errorCode, IntPtr errorInfo) at J6yGCsoDpnHOBej9n7.D714qrODO3BD6NeP0c.H4L2kbr3YL(IAMStreamConfig , String , Object ) at J6yGCsoDpnHOBej9n7.D714qrODO3BD6NeP0c.dhN2HZvuIC(Size ) at EZ_B.Camera.StartCamera(ValuePair videoCaptureDevice, Control processedPreviewControl, Control realtimePreviewControl, Int32 captureWidth, Int32 captureHeight). Resolution: 640x480

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Synthiam
#3  

the driver is not supported for that camera device

#4  

Fair enough, thank you for the quick responses.