NewFrame event not called

[warrenw]

I am using the following code to display images from a webcam on a windows form, however the NewFrame event handler is never called (verified by setting a breakpoint in the handler). I do not get any exceptions when building, nor do I see and console output that would indicate an error. Can anyone point me in the right direction to figure out why this is not working?

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public WebCamHelper()
{
            _userPreferences = UserPreferences.Current;
            SetDevices();
}

public void SetDevices()
{
            SetDevices(
                _userPreferences.WebCamDeviceID,
                _userPreferences.WebCamResolution
            );
}

public void SetDevices(int DeviceID, string Resolution)
{
            try
            {
                videoSource = new VideoCaptureDevice(videosources[DeviceID].MonikerString);

                try
                {
                    //Check if the video device provides a list of supported resolutions
                    if (videoSource.VideoCapabilities.Length > 0)
                    {
                        for (int i = 0; i < videoSource.VideoCapabilities.Length; i++)
                        {
                            if ((videoSource.VideoCapabilities[i].FrameSize.Width + " x " + videoSource.VideoCapabilities[i].FrameSize.Height) == Resolution)
                            {
                                videoSource.VideoResolution = videoSource.VideoCapabilities[i];
                                break;
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
                catch
                {
                    //if can't set selected resolution, choose lowest available
                    if (videoSource.VideoCapabilities.Length > 0)
                    {
                        string lowestSolution = "0;0";
                        //Search for the lowest resolution (can be changed to highest by changing [<] in line 74 to [>] and renaming variables lowestSolution -> highestSolution
                        for (int i = 0; i < videoSource.VideoCapabilities.Length; i++)
                        {
                            if (videoSource.VideoCapabilities[i].FrameSize.Width < Convert.ToInt32(lowestSolution.Split(';')[0]))
                                lowestSolution = videoSource.VideoCapabilities[i].FrameSize.Width.ToString() + ";" + i.ToString();
                        }
                        //Set the resolution as active
                        videoSource.VideoResolution = videoSource.VideoCapabilities[Convert.ToInt32(lowestSolution.Split(';')[1])];
                    }
                }

                videoSource.NewFrame += new AForge.Video.NewFrameEventHandler(videoSource_NewFrame);
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                //no-removed webcam ?
                Main cm = (Main)System.Windows.Forms.Application.OpenForms["Main"];
                cm.DisableWebCamSettingsMenu();
            }
        }

        void videoSource_NewFrame(object sender, AForge.Video.NewFrameEventArgs eventArgs)
        {
            OnFrameReady((Bitmap)eventArgs.Frame.Clone(), null);
        }

        public void Start()
        {
            videoSource.Start();
        }

        public void Stop()
        {
            if (videoSource != null && videoSource.IsRunning)
            {
                videoSource.SignalToStop();
            }
        }


[andrew.kirillov]

Do you get any VideoSourceError events instead? Any exceptions coming up in debugger output window?

What about adding AForge.NET Framework's sources and stepping through them?

[warrenw]

Andrew -

I do have the sources inclued in the project, and I am not seeing any exceptions there. Thanks for the suggestion on the VideoSourceError event, unfortunately, this event is not fired either. I wasn't using it, but just added this

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videoSource.VideoSourceError += new VideoSourceErrorEventHandler(videoSource_Error);

...

void videoSource_Error(object sender, AForge.Video.VideoSourceErrorEventArgs eventArgs)
{
    ...
}


[warrenw]

Found the issue!! It had NOTHING to do with the AForge libraries, so sorry for the waste of your time. There is another component in the application which was holding a reference the the camera device. Once this was cleared, the AForge events started firing as expected.