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Why doesn't Periscope work if no display is attached?

Marcus Harvey
asked this on October 01, 2011 00:40

I am running Periscope on an old PowerMac G5 with external Firewire iSight camera  running 10.5.8 . I  have no display connected to this box. When I connect to it from my MacBook using screen sharing, Periscope shows no video. The external iSight camera is selected in preferences. Clicking "Capture Photo Now" does nothing.

Everything worked when a display (now dead) was connected.
 

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Paul I.
Freeverse
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Unfortunately, its one of the limitations of the software and since it's been recently discontinued, there will not be an update for this.

 

October 03, 2011 14:02.
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Maczot

We haven't tried this yet to resolve that matter but thought we'd share the link explaining how to trick the mac into thinking there is a monitor:

http://soledadpenades.com/2009/02/10/mac-mini-as-a-headless-server/

January 19, 2012 09:44.
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