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ronbal / photobooth

a raspberry Pi photobooth
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pygame.error: video system not initialized #1

Closed svargas93 closed 5 years ago

svargas93 commented 7 years ago

I'm getting an issue when starting.. the intro screen comes up but but when i when the space bar i get this error.. i have tried inputting my screen size using tvservice

Traceback (most recent call last): File "photobooth.py", line 50, in monitor_w, monitor_h = pygame.display.Info().current_w, pygame.display.Info().current_h pygame.error: video system not initialized

sometimes i get this error too

pi@raspberrypi:~/photobooth $ sudo python3 photobooth.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "photobooth.py", line 204, in starting() File "photobooth.py", line 73, in starting shoot() File "photobooth.py", line 123, in shoot countdown_overlay('test') File "photobooth.py", line 160, in countdown_overlay o = camera.add_overlay(pad.tostring(), size=img.size) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 697, in tostring "Please call tobytes() instead.") NotImplementedError: tostring() has been removed. Please call tobytes() instead. Goodbye.

ronbal commented 5 years ago

hi i have updated the script, please try now again. Photobooth is now compatible with Stretch