Oh I am disappointed netcam studio wouldn’t work with our existing cameras! New IP cameras would be a significant investment for us, so we’ll have to make do for now.
We actually do have one Windows 7 machine, which though quite old too, is a pretty robust machine. But on this last trip, it also became non-functional. I have, however, traced what I believe is part of the problem (maybe ALL of the problem). You may want to let your developers know to at least plan for this situation, because it seems like something easy to miss while debugging new code. I mentioned that I’ve been using the FTP upload. Since I use this program to watch pets in addition to obvious security, there are bound to be hundreds of photos uploaded during the course of a day. Sometimes over 1000! So the thing you may need to plan for is the situation where the FTP server (receiving the photos) is beginning to fail.
This happened to me because my hosting company “upgraded” some things, and in the process changed the FTP account quotas, and the number of simultaneous connections allowed. Since I may only check and delete uploaded photos once a day, the limited quota filled up, so that no more FTP uploads were being accepted.
Now, having watched Webcam’s FTP.Queue directories on my machines, it seems that older files get deleted AFTER a successful FTP upload. So if the FTP transfers are continually failing, and there are thousands of photos building up in the FTP.Queue directory, they never get deleted and program eventually chokes. Again, I can see where that would be an easy condition to forget to test for. Now that I’ve set my FTP account to an unlimited quota, I’m not seeing the issue happen. But if this question ever comes up again in any of your products, you may want to tell the users to check for this condition.
Anyway, thanks for all the support all these years on WebcamXP.