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YawCam help please?

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Hello

I am not getting much joy from the yawcam support, so will ask here :)

I have been using it for a few weeks now and it works perfectly and I LOVE the overlay, but for no reason I get major corruption like the attached.
but using the link from the ucam247 itself there is no problem at all, so it must be the yawcam software. Plus I have tested one or 2 others and they don't have the corruption at the time yawcam does.

Any idea please? or any other software suggestions, that can have a similar overlay as yawcam?

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Re: YawCam help please?

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At a guess, I would say codec issue.
Have you installed a program that altered the system codecs???
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How often does the image refresh????
Its almost like the image hasn't loaded fully and its attempting to load the next one.
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it is a live feed.. see here
http://www.marton-weather.co.uk/wxwebcam.php

out of the blue it will work fine for a few days then like this for a few days etc..
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When I look at it, it alternates between the clear picture and the garbled every second or two at what appears to be the update interval.

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Re: YawCam help please?

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it works fine via the live feed from the camera itself. Really annoying me now.

Anyone recommend some other software please? that I can put a sleek overlay on from cumulus? I don't mind paying for it

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Re: YawCam help please?

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To me it looks like interference with bursts of data.
Is your weather station a wireless one by chance?
I'd try wrapping the cables to/from the camera through some toroidal chokes.
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it is wireless.. that is a great idea, would never have thought about it. I just ordered some ferrite cylinders. Thank you!
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Sadgit wrote: Thank you!
No problem, hope you can fix it.
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:( damn. I was all hopeful but alas that did not work. A bit stumped now. Thanks for the idea though

It is a wifi camera
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tried it on a other PC, same issue. I try some other software and again it is fine. Just appears to be YawCam which is odd..
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hmm odd, I played about with the ferrite cylinders, rebooted every thing and days later it hasn't happened again. So thank you :)
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and the problem is back and goes away for an hour after I reboot everything. No other software does this, just yawcam. using the /live/1/mjpeg.jpg feed.

I lust love the overlay this provides.. well I guess that is tough cheese :(
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On YawCam have you tried other 'Format Control' settings such as color 'Space/Compression' and 'Output size.' Try various combinations - first to render an image and then to stabilize output.
Try them all - one may please both YawCam and the Cam at the same time.

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