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ESP32-CAM Take Photo and Save to MicroSD Card

Q&A Forum › Category: ESP32 › ESP32-CAM Take Photo and Save to MicroSD Card
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Yinhui Yang asked 3 years ago

Hi, I just followed the steps in the ebook to take a picture and store it to the microsd card (I used a 8GB microsd card).  The esp32-cam board is similar to the AI-Thinker board, and the pictures are stored in a jpeg format, with framesize equal to FRAMESIZE_UXGA and a jpeg quality set to 10 (The code is exactly the same as in the github).  The pictures are successfully saved and are non-empty (I can see the storage size), but I can not open it in my Windows laptop. The prompt information when opening the saved jpg files is about: the file format is not supported. But I can open other jpg files (downloaded from Internet) successfully, so any ideas on this problem? Thanks!

Question Tags: ESP32-CAM MicroSD Card Take and save picture
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Sara Santos Staff answered 3 years ago

Hi.
I never had that kind of problem.
Maybe it’s because the image is saved on a microSD card?
Test saving pictures to the microSD card and opening them on your computer.
Which software do you use to view the pictures?
Regards,
Sara

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Yinhui Yang answered 3 years ago

Hi, Sara, thanks for replying! This problem may be caused by the mircoSD card, I will try another card.

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Sara Santos Staff answered 3 years ago

Ok.
Then, let me know if that solves the issue.
Regards.
Sara

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