topic Re: fe41s motion eye camera works once per session in PCs & Accessories

fe41s motion eye camera works once per session

pippo561 — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:56:17 GMT

Hi
The integrated camera on this brand new sony (Vista) works one time only per boot, if I start camera capture utility it works, close the utility and try Skype and it says the camera is used by another program.
After a reboot the camera works again but again one time only.

I have been reading some on this forum but the search does not work? Am I missing something?
Regards All

Re: fe41s motion eye camera works once per session

Lord_Olorin — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:55:39 GMT

Identical problem here. I have a VAIO VGN-FE41S.

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pippo561 — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 22:19:29 GMT

Identical problem here. I have a VAIO VGN-FE41S.

Well, at least I am not alone.
I have logged the problem to Sony e-Support, maybe you should do the same and lets hope they came up with a solution very quickly.

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maishan — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 22:33:25 GMT

Thats interesting - I cant even get the camera capture utility to work in vista on my SZ3 - when I try to install the Vista Utility (from the sony vista driver site), Vista claims the software you are installing is not designed for Vista.

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scuderia_chris — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:31:50 GMT

Same problem here! Actually when I start the camera capture utility from the system tray there is no way I can close the application (only by means of task manager of course )

Chris.

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jackbaps — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:18:15 GMT

Exactly the same problem here guys!

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fldq — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:39:23 GMT

yep, same overehere with the fe41s.

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magic5 — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:48:43 GMT

Same problem with my Fe41Z.

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Spaceface — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:29:28 GMT

And yep, I have the same problem with my VGN-FE41S.
See also: http://club.vaio.sony.be/clubvaio/BE/nl/forum/viewthread?thread=39704&offset=10
(screenshots in dutch though).
I have opened a ticket for this issue at the Sony Vaio helpdesk in Brussels 10 days ago.
Waiting for a feedback...

Wouter

Re: fe41s motion eye camera works once per session

Thalamus. — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:39:18 GMT

Hi

Have you installed the latest VAIO Camera Capture Utility update for your vaio..?

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Spaceface — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:13:19 GMT

Thalamus,

Indeed I installed this Camera Capture Utility update, which made things even worse.
It doesn 't do anything about the camera not being found or "being in use by another program", and it makes the Capture Utility now hang indefinitely every time. I can only close it via the Task Manager.
See my screenshots also at
http://club.vaio.sony.be/clubvaio/BE/nl/forum/viewthread?thread=39704&offset=10

This is my first Vaio, and I'm quite disappointed that such problems occur on such an expensive machine, with so far no feedback from Sony whatsoever.

Regards,

Wouter

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Thalamus. — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:17:05 GMT

Indeed I installed this Camera Capture Utility update, which made things even worse.

Hi Wouter,

Sorry to hear the update has made things worse...

We have reported this to Sony, hopefully it will be sorted soon..

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bcurz — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:01:41 GMT

HI all, I had the same problems. Installed the Vaio update, rebooted, then the camera worked but did not save the files. After next booting same procedure. After doing this some times it seems to work now. Interesting that after updating and rebooting Vista started in the emergency modus. All in all I am disappointed of the not working of an internally installed feature....

Regards
Bernd

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mat2109 — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 13:14:23 GMT

FE41M / le même problème pour moi après la mise à jour...
Avant tout fonctionnait normalement , maintenant le webcam se bloque sur une application pour toute une session

Re: fe41s motion eye camera works once per session

Elliet — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:34:54 GMT

Hi

unfortunately your suggestion was unsucessful in resolving this problem on my VGN-FE41E.

Thanks anyway!

Regards
Ellie t

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Polojoe — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:14:22 GMT

Same here. Any solution from Sony?

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pdidit — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:03:46 GMT

ya also have this problem. have the same as yourself but the only thing is that it will not work on the still images. the video capture is np. since this is my first sony :smileygrin: , can anyone tell me what is there eta to getting thing fixed?

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pauhunte8 — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:33:49 GMT

Clearly a fix aint out there at the moment cos there's loads of threads about the camera capture utility being gubbed. I've followed all the advice that's been given so far but alas no, it's still screwed.

To be honest the camera seems to work fine through Skype and so on so I guess it's just a crappy bit of software that we probably don't need anyway.

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piedslourds — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 07:54:01 GMT

Yes I have the same problem on my VGN-AR31E when using Skype and I reported it to Sony 3 or 4 weeks ago, no bug fix yet! And more and more threads about this issue, especially for those who use Messenger, hopefully I don't.

My problem: the motion eye will operate when I first connect to Skype. If I stop the call and want to call someone else, then the motion eye will not work anymore, the message is that "the camera is in use by another application". I need to reboot the Vaio to have it work again.I installed the updates, nothing changed.

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Thalamus. — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:50:29 GMT

Hi all,

Have you tired this possible solution..

Install the VCCU Update 2.2.01.04100 if it is available, it should be listed in the download section for your Vaio on the Vaio-Link site, select your Vaio model from the list..

Then downloaded and installed the Microsoft Camera Hotfix KB931812 (I've attached this file below)