After working on a project for a while without any issues using the RGB camera of a Intel RealSense SR300 in the VideoDevice In TOP I switched to an AJA Corvid88 for the production phase. I was surprised to find that all my projects using the Video Device In TOP then crashed upon opening and that the same happened when I dropped a Video Device In TOP onto a empty network. The corvid worked fine in other apps and I had the latest Kona driver installed so I don’t think this was a driver issue.
A quick search led me to this article where Matthew described a similar issue:
Turns out I had to temporarily deactivate the Intel RealSense camera in Windows’ Device Manager to allow the Video Device In TOP to open properly.
Not sure this is really a bug but it did constitute an issue for me and thought it might serve others.
This was with Experimental 2022.22650 under Win10 with P5000+P1000 GPUs.
By any chance, do you know if the project that failed to open had the Video Device In TOP(s) set to use the DirectShow library or some other library ?
If you attempt to open the crashing project in CrashAutoSave mode, can you tell what are the devices listed / library selected on the Video Device In TOP(s)?
So when I first attempted reproducing the problem it didn’t work. I would unplug the RealSense, open the TOE which previously crashed and it opened just fine if only with an error on the Video Device In TOP as expected. It is only when I went back to the Device Manager that I remembered I had also disabled other devices along with the RealSense. I iterated through all these and it is only upon enabling the “SplitCam Virtual Video Driver” that my TOE started crashing while loading or that TD would crash when adding a new Video Device In TOP.
Also I verified the same issue was present with the last stable version of TD.
So I believe the problem probably has more to do with this specific virtual device driver than with TD.