[Gergall]

Here's a brief rundown of my sitation:

I am working on a program/game that accesses the camera and takes snapshots. The Nokia 6630 is working wonderfully. After creating a Player and a Videocontrol, I set them up and start using a line that looks like this:
bmpImage = videoControl.getSnapshot("encoding=bmp");
(bmpImage is a byte array)


When I try this on the Nokia 7610 phone, a MediaException is thrown every time I try to take a snapshot. The exception is as follows:
Symbian OS Error: -18
I should add that if I attempt to actually access bmpImage in any way, I receive a Null Pointer runtime error. This should be obvious or at least not surprising.

At first I thought that I was using the wrong encoding, so I replaced my line with "...getSnapshot(null);" Null uses the default encoding and should never fail. When this didn't work either, I knew I had a more serious problem.

I am looking for suggestions as to how I might correct this problem so that I can take snapshots with the 7610.

Thank you

[njzk2]

-18 is 'not ready'
i use the 6670, which is basically the 7610, and no problems
i do :

player = Manager.createPlayer("capture://video");
player.realize();
videoControl = (VideoControl) (player.getControl("VideoControl"));
videoControl.initDisplayMode(VideoControl.USE_DIRECT_VIDEO, this);
player.start();
videoControl.setVisible(true);

and later i take the snapshot just the way you do it
('this' is a canvas)