motion eye camera problems

[auffreto]

Hi.
I have a new VAIO with vista, and I am having problems with the camera. It keeps saying that there is another program using the device, when I can't think of what it could be. I have windows live messenger and skype, and I can imagine that they may conflict a bit, but even with messenger closed, the problem still occurs. I just don't know what is wrong, or how I can find which program is apparently using it, and how I can stop it..

thanks
Ali

[Thalamus.]

Hi Ali,

Welcome to Club vaio,

There has been several posts about camera problems and Vista and this has been reported to Sony. Here is another thread on Camera problems..

[Andreas79]

Hi,

I have the same problem with a new VAIO FE41S here. It worked well until yesterday, used it for Skype. But since then I am getting the recurring message that another program may be using the web-cam. I definitely have nothing else running.

Does Sony provide any updates to download in order to solve the problem? Has it been like that in the past?

Thanks
Andreas

[Thalamus.]

Hi Andreas

Have you installed the latest VAIO Camera Capture Utility update for your vaio..?