yes Aisu, I do make use of the camera and I had to compromise on 2 fronts to get the closest to reasonable images out of it:

(1) Run at 320*240 mode, using the full 640*480 gives the same identified lockups, and I never managed to obtain a stable stream.
I'm sure this point is related to how much work the system is doing to update the screen leaving the camera starved of bandwidth.
I will however be allowing full high resolution images in the next version (selectable resolution). I will let you choose.

(2) coloring, I had to implement a filter on the Chroma channels to reduce them to half the supplied values. Leaving these alone produces the most yucky grainy images possible (doubly bad in lowish light). Reducing it to acceptable levels was required. As you noticed picklesworth, the Luma channel is the most reasonable and is left alone.

I simply could not find a better way to use the camera but just wanted to see what was possible. It gives me ideas anyway



edit: liqbase uses the fullscreen button as a shutter, but its a bit silly cos its on the wrong side of the camera.