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Re: how turn off camera after using CurrentImage?

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• Subject: [mg123983] Re: how turn off camera after using CurrentImage?
• From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr357 at gmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 05:00:22 -0500 (EST)
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If you use ImageCapture[] instead of or in addition to CurrentImage[]
you will have access to a Camera Start/Stop control.


Bob Hanlon


On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 5:25 AM, Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu> wrote:
> On an iMac under OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard), in Mathematica 8.0.4, I
> evaluated CurrentImage[]. That automatically turned on the built-in
> "FaceTime HD" camera.
>
> Is there some programmatic way from within Mathematica to turn the
> camera off?
>
> And if not -- OT: is there some simple way to do this in OS X? (Other
> than open and then quit the FaceTime app.)
>
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    • From: Murray Eisenberg <murray@math.umass.edu>