I desperately need a zoom function; im running this software on an old laptop with a terrible screen, but my camera and video is full HD. Doesnt make much sense if I cant zoom in. I cant even put the video in full screen.
Sure I can export the video and then play it in some media player where I can zoom, but that is tedious.
Zoom and full screen
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cino72 - Posts: 18
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Re: Zoom and full screen
My work around for this problem is just leave SH running in the back ground and keep the video stream up in a browser window. the browser window allows me to control ptz sound ect.
If by chance I need to go back and look at something it captured then I pull up SH and to do a full review of what it captured.
I know its only a work around but that's about the only option at this time.
If by chance I need to go back and look at something it captured then I pull up SH and to do a full review of what it captured.
I know its only a work around but that's about the only option at this time.
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Semper Vaporo - Posts: 331
- Joined: Sat Oct 09, 2010 11:51 am
Re: Zoom and full screen
I sometimes use the "Magnifier" program in Windows. It is part of just about every version of Windows and there are 3rd party (free/paid) versions around also.
It can take a really long time for it to start because it must get a contiguous block of memory assigned to hold a copy of the unmagnified screen so it can create the magnified view to insert in its window. It has to request the memory from the OS and then wait for other programs (all the SightHound processes!) as they relinquish sections in their normal usage cycles.
And, of course, it does not improve the resolution in the magnified image, it just makes the pixels bigger (not finer).
Still, it has helped many times when there was something that was difficult to make out in the normal view.
It can take a really long time for it to start because it must get a contiguous block of memory assigned to hold a copy of the unmagnified screen so it can create the magnified view to insert in its window. It has to request the memory from the OS and then wait for other programs (all the SightHound processes!) as they relinquish sections in their normal usage cycles.
And, of course, it does not improve the resolution in the magnified image, it just makes the pixels bigger (not finer).
Still, it has helped many times when there was something that was difficult to make out in the normal view.
Semper Vaporo,