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by DrAstro
Thu Feb 29, 2024 7:06 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Capture Area issues
Replies: 4
Views: 582

Re: Capture Area issues

A bit more information.

As I mentioned, the live view on the screen doesn't change, but the histogram does change, such as when I cover up the front of the camera.

Vince
by DrAstro
Thu Feb 29, 2024 6:49 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Capture Area issues
Replies: 4
Views: 582

Re: Capture Area issues

Robin,

I updated to 4.1.1804.

The menu now works correctly when I change the FOI, but....

The live view still only works if I select 1920x1080, selecting any other camera area and the live view freezes.
Is this user error?
by DrAstro
Thu Feb 29, 2024 3:35 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Capture Area issues
Replies: 4
Views: 582

Capture Area issues

I'm testing exposure times/Capture Area settings in Sharpcap with a QHY174GPS camera. Q1. After reducing the Capture Area, the "live view" no longer works. Is that be design? Q2. After changing the Capture Area to 640x480 and invoking the FOI, I recorded a minute of data at 10ms to see how...
by DrAstro
Thu Mar 18, 2021 9:11 pm
Forum: Feature Suggestions
Topic: ROI Selection
Replies: 1
Views: 532

ROI Selection

I was testing some SharpCap features using a Celestron NexImage 5 camera. I usually start at maximum resolution of the camera to acquire an object then lower the resolution till I get a size that is in my sweet spot. This usually involves centering the object before changing the resolution. Unfortun...
by DrAstro
Mon Mar 01, 2021 7:57 pm
Forum: How do I?
Topic: Codec support
Replies: 3
Views: 509

Re: Codec support

how does SharpCap apply a date/time stamp to the SER output when the video capture is NTSC/PAL with on screen VTI information?
is it doing on the fly screen scraping?
or did you mean it time stamps based on system time?
by DrAstro
Sun Feb 28, 2021 10:41 pm
Forum: How do I?
Topic: Codec support
Replies: 3
Views: 509

Codec support

I am testing the IOTA RunCam with a StarTech video capture dongle. I normally use the IOTA Capture program but wanted to try SharpCap. I configured SharpCap to save the captured file as an .AVI in order to compare the output with the IOTA Capture software. SharpCap saved the file in .AVI format, but...