Hang using UPC

[E. Recio]

Thanks for getting back to me, and sorry for the delay, i've been 
(physically) cataloging the CD'S on and off as time permits and would 
like to continue digital part of this cataloging.

Webcam: Sorry about this and silly me, I see the General Options (I was 
looking in MusicBrainz). "Enable Webcam for barcode scanning". I have 
unchecked it and it seems to work perfect now.

Yes, it happens no matter the UPC value, as the window comes up 
immediately on the background (and modally?! on the top right of the 
screen) as blank when I open Internet Search and select "UPC". However, 
I can search the internet via UPC using keyboard. The search happens OK 
and the information comes up where I can select it and add to database. 
The moment I click on "OK" in the search window or attempt to close the 
search window, the entire app freezes and I loose all the UPCs entered 
and searched (basically the tc database was unable to be saved).

I have to kill the whole app (killall or kill -9). Again, I don't have a 
webcam, so it doesn't matter and I can leave this option off. My scanner 
is a keyboard emulator that can do multiple 1d/2d barcode formats and 
just speed type output as if it was an extra keyboard into whatever has 
the keyboard focus.

Note, the only hint that I had that it may have been that webcam 
feature, was when I was attempting to compile the latest version and saw 
that it required v4l2, which I thought was strange. Debugging showed 
that whatever was compiled in by my vendor is not compatible with 
whatever v4l2 library is installed.

Thanks,
Emilio

On 2025-10-11 11:40 -0400, Robby Stephenson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2025 at 5:34 AM E. Recio <erecio at polywog.org 
> <mailto:erecio at polywog.org>> wrote:
> 
>     So I am trying to scan a CD barcode (using my USB serial port scanner -
>     basically a keyboard emulator that pastes the numbers as if typing in
>     when it scans the barcode). I go back and just plain old trying to type
>     in the CD barcode in the UPC/EAN lookup lineedit. In any case, a small
>     window opens up and just hangs there my Tellico session. I have to
>     force
>     quit, losing work.
> 
> 
> There's a setting for disabling the webcam functionality in 
> Configuration Dialog. That may resolve the hang for you. Does it happen 
> no matter the UPC value?
> 
> Robby

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