I am trying to use my webcam.
Somehow, no app is recognizing it.
If I open Camera it says it's in use already,
but if I look under camera app permissions in Settings it doesn't list any app as using the camera.
What gives?
Somehow, no app is recognizing it.
If I open Camera it says it's in use already,
but if I look under camera app permissions in Settings it doesn't list any app as using the camera.
What gives?
It's just fricking wild to me that Windows has concepts of exclusive mode for both microphone and camera devices and yet no way to query which app is holding the exclusive token. (Come to think of it, same with Windows' many "file in use, can't delete/rename " bottlenecks)
Beginning to worry that my webcam might actually be broken (it did get dropped yesterday). No Windows app can talk to it and a restart did not help. If I plug it into my mac, the mac can see it as a microphone but not as a camera device (?).
I'm not even sure what to use as a basic camera app on Windows. Camera.app appears to be a universally reviled pile of bugs?
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