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I'll answer Paul's recent post in a day or two, but wanted to give this
tidbit. I bought a PC camera at Ollies, an east-coast US chain of allegedly surplus stuff, and I think some of it really is. Last summer they had a batch of portable AC's of 3 different brands, and if they weren't surplus last summer, at least they were this summer when they sold the ones they couldn't sell last year. And they have a very strange collection of food. The PC camera was only 4 dollars, and it wasn't spherical like the one I bought at a hamfest, so I thought I had a decent chance of tying it to a long pole and inspecting my second floor gutters, but I'll do that next summer. However I did try to use it with XP and it didnt' work. Didnt' come with any software either, or a brand name. But tried it tonight in Vista, and it is working. Plug 'n' Play. Device Manager claims the manurfacturer is MS but I think it's confused. Alas, I only have one person I could video Skype with, my niece, 22, and I found out just tonight that she's not talking to her father, that she defriended his wife, and apparently defriended me, even though I didn't do anything. She didn't reply to two of my emails either. She'll probably get over this, but the big issue for me is, What good is my camera now? Oh, I need to take a still picture for an ID card. They want me to email it to them. Any software recommendations? Free, I guess, since I'm only going to use it once. Hmmm. It seems Skype will do this, but if you know something else by heart, still appreciated. It's for my organ donor card. I wrote them, "Why do I need a picture? If you get the wrong guy and you take his organs when he didn't sign up, you're ahead. And if I'm dead, it doesn't matter what I look like." The answer was that if a next-of-kin sees the card with the picture on it, he's less likely to say No. I guess the picture makes it like a personal request. But my n-o-k lives 1000 miles away and won't see the card anyhow. Maybe the card will help me cash checks. (I've already aged out of giving bone marrow. Apparently you have to be 60 or 62 or less. I don't get it. I thought bone marrow was hard to match and it seems to work for me. Surely I've made some new blood in the last 6 years.) |
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On 10/07/2015 02:43 AM, micky wrote:
I'll answer Paul's recent post in a day or two, but wanted to give this tidbit. I bought a PC camera at Ollies, an east-coast US chain of allegedly surplus stuff, and I think some of it really is. Last summer they had a batch of portable AC's of 3 different brands, and if they weren't surplus last summer, at least they were this summer when they sold the ones they couldn't sell last year. And they have a very strange collection of food. The PC camera was only 4 dollars, and it wasn't spherical like the one I bought at a hamfest, so I thought I had a decent chance of tying it to a long pole and inspecting my second floor gutters, but I'll do that next summer. However I did try to use it with XP and it didnt' work. Didnt' come with any software either, or a brand name. But tried it tonight in Vista, and it is working. Plug 'n' Play. Device Manager claims the manurfacturer is MS but I think it's confused. Alas, I only have one person I could video Skype with, my niece, 22, and I found out just tonight that she's not talking to her father, that she defriended his wife, and apparently defriended me, even though I didn't do anything. She didn't reply to two of my emails either. She'll probably get over this, but the big issue for me is, What good is my camera now? Oh, I need to take a still picture for an ID card. They want me to email it to them. Any software recommendations? Free, I guess, since I'm only going to use it once. Hmmm. It seems Skype will do this, but if you know something else by heart, still appreciated. It's for my organ donor card. I wrote them, "Why do I need a picture? If you get the wrong guy and you take his organs when he didn't sign up, you're ahead. And if I'm dead, it doesn't matter what I look like." The answer was that if a next-of-kin sees the card with the picture on it, he's less likely to say No. I guess the picture makes it like a personal request. But my n-o-k lives 1000 miles away and won't see the card anyhow. Maybe the card will help me cash checks. (I've already aged out of giving bone marrow. Apparently you have to be 60 or 62 or less. I don't get it. I thought bone marrow was hard to match and it seems to work for me. Surely I've made some new blood in the last 6 years.) I never ever just plug my camera into the computer...I always take the card out and use a reader. |
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On Wed, 07 Oct 2015 03:43:45 -0400, micky
wrote: I'll answer Paul's recent post in a day or two, but wanted to give this tidbit. I bought a PC camera at Ollies, an east-coast US chain of allegedly surplus stuff, and I think some of it really is. Last summer they had a batch of portable AC's of 3 different brands, and if they weren't surplus last summer, at least they were this summer when they sold the ones they couldn't sell last year. And they have a very strange collection of food. The PC camera was only 4 dollars, and it wasn't spherical like the one I bought at a hamfest, so I thought I had a decent chance of tying it to a long pole and inspecting my second floor gutters, but I'll do that next summer. However I did try to use it with XP and it didnt' work. Didnt' come with any software either, or a brand name. But tried it tonight in Vista, and it is working. Plug 'n' Play. Device Manager claims the manurfacturer is MS but I think it's confused. Alas, I only have one person I could video Skype with, my niece, 22, and I found out just tonight that she's not talking to her father, that she defriended his wife, and apparently defriended me, even though I didn't do anything. She didn't reply to two of my emails either. She'll probably get over this, but the big issue for me is, What good is my camera now? You probably just need the right XP software/driver to get it going and Vista may have it built in. I have several of these web cams laying around but I don't really use any of them. Are there any numbers on it at all that you can google? Oh, I need to take a still picture for an ID card. They want me to email it to them. Any software recommendations? Free, I guess, since I'm only going to use it once. Don't you have a digital still camera? |
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micky wrote:
I'll answer Paul's recent post in a day or two, but wanted to give this tidbit. I bought a PC camera at Ollies, an east-coast US chain of allegedly surplus stuff, and I think some of it really is. Last summer they had a batch of portable AC's of 3 different brands, and if they weren't surplus last summer, at least they were this summer when they sold the ones they couldn't sell last year. And they have a very strange collection of food. The PC camera was only 4 dollars, and it wasn't spherical like the one I bought at a hamfest, so I thought I had a decent chance of tying it to a long pole and inspecting my second floor gutters, but I'll do that next summer. However I did try to use it with XP and it didnt' work. Didnt' come with any software either, or a brand name. But tried it tonight in Vista, and it is working. Plug 'n' Play. Device Manager claims the manurfacturer is MS but I think it's confused. snip USB webcams consist of two chips. A sensor chip (the one that takes the picture), and a controller chip (the one that transmits the picture to the PC in packets). The webcam can be UVC compliant. That is a standard defined by usb.org designed to make it easier to use webcams. The device declares its "class" in a data field when the OS is probing the thing. Other webcams don't support UVC. They are "custom" hardware devices, and the USB configuration space info will say they're "other" and not "UVC". Such webcams, even if they're $4, are only worth buying if they come with the installer CD. I've seen such webcams for sale on the 'net, without CDs, and all I can do is warn people to stay away. I find the sites that claim to have drivers for such things, there is a tendency for malware to be in the driver. That's why you want the CD. And scan the CD contents anyway. Now, the observation that the camera works in Vista, suggests it is UVC. And with most OSes, the trick is to "get it to appear" when it is supposed to show up. If something is busted on an OS that prevents automatic detection and installation, then you will have trouble using it. On the WinXP machine, you'd check Device Manager and see if any sort of new entry appears when the camera is plugged in (while the OS is running). Even hearing a sound effect from the computer speakers, is some sorta diagnostic info... On my hardware store webcam device, you actually have to flip the "power switch" on it, before it will appear :-) If you want to learn more about your USB camera, use USBTreeView. The Microsoft version known as UVCView, is too hard to get to. And this program is functionally equivalent. Download link is 90% of the way down the page. http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtreeview_e.html If you look at the screen shots, you'll see that the output is "techie" output. If you wanted to share something like that, see if you can save the output as text, then upload it using pastebin.com (a site for uploading text files). As taking screenshots just won't work in this case - the output from a camera, would require scrolling the window on the right, many many times. ******* This sample camera is UVC compliant (because it works without a driver). --- USB_composite_device --- video_device --X (no microphone for audio) Device Description : USB Composite Device Device ID : USB\VID_0AC8&PID_3630\5&1153F663&0&3 Driver KeyName : {36FC9E60-C465-11CF-8056-444553540000}\0066 (GUID_DEVCLASS_USB) Driver : C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\usbccgp.sys (Version: 5.1.2600.6437 Date: 2001-07-01) Driver Inf : c:\windows\inf\usb.inf Legacy BusType : PNPBus Class : USB Service : usbccgp Enumerator : USB Location Info : Venus USB2.0 Camera ------- Video Control Interface Header Descriptor ----- bLength : 0x0D (13 bytes) bDescriptorType : 0x24 (Video Control Interface) bDescriptorSubtype : 0x01 (Video Control Header) bcdUVC : 0x0100 (UVC Version 1.00) And this next UVC compliant camera has both audio and video. Because I installed some driver, you can see the "oem24" entry signaling that a driver is present anyway. That driver gives access to 1280 or 1600 width pictures. The UVC only allowed resolutions up to 960 or so. (Older webcams only did 640x480, so that wasn't a problem.) That was the reason for installing a driver, so it would be possible to use the native camera resolution. --- USB_composite_device --- video_device --- microphone for audio Device Description : Logitech USB Camera (Pro 9000) Device ID : USB\VID_046D&PID_0990\B4B16F1B Driver KeyName : {36FC9E60-C465-11CF-8056-444553540000}\0013 (GUID_DEVCLASS_USB) Driver : C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\usbccgp.sys (Version: 5.1.2600.6437 Date: 2012-09-21) Driver Inf : c:\windows\inf\oem24.inf Legacy BusType : PNPBus Class : USB Service : usbccgp Enumerator : USB Location Info : USB Device ------- Video Control Interface Header Descriptor ----- bLength : 0x0D (13 bytes) bDescriptorType : 0x24 (Video Control Interface) bDescriptorSubtype : 0x01 (Video Control Header) bcdUVC : 0x0100 (UVC Version 1.00) ------ Audio Control Interface Header Descriptor ------ bLength : 0x09 (9 bytes) bDescriptorType : 0x24 (Audio Interface Descriptor) bDescriptorSubtype : 0x01 (Header) bcdADC : 0x0100 I don't think I have a webcam sample without UVC. I've had enough crappy camera devices here, to keep me from buying too many :-) I expect if you had a non-UVC camera, the entry for it would be a lot shorter. For example, the Logitech camera, the text output for it is 24KB. A non-UVC camera, won't have all those video formats to bore you with. As a custom driver will be needed to get any additional information - USBTreeView cannot make up info it cannot read. You would need driver code for all possible non-UVC cameras to even attempt that (such as you might find on Linux). Paul |
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In message , philo
writes: On 10/07/2015 02:43 AM, micky wrote: I'll answer Paul's recent post in a day or two, but wanted to give this tidbit. I bought a PC camera at Ollies, an east-coast US chain of allegedly [] The PC camera was only 4 dollars, and it wasn't spherical like the one I [] with any software either, or a brand name. But tried it tonight in Vista, and it is working. Plug 'n' Play. Device Manager claims the manurfacturer is MS but I think it's confused. (I think that just means the Microsoft driver worked.) [] Oh, I need to take a still picture for an ID card. They want me to email it to them. Any software recommendations? Free, I guess, since I'm only going to use it once. Hmmm. It seems Skype will do this, Doesn't the Vista driver that it works with have a snapshot facility? Failing that, PrtScr might work. [] I never ever just plug my camera into the computer...I always take the card out and use a reader. I think micky's $4 camera is a webcam - no card involved. (FWIW I do as you do when using a camera that does use a card.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "... four Oscars, and two further nominations ... On these criteria, he's Britain's most successful film director." Powell or Pressburger? no; Richard Attenborough? no; Nick Park! |
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In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, on Wed, 7 Oct 2015 20:18:45
+0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote: In message , philo writes: On 10/07/2015 02:43 AM, micky wrote: I'll answer Paul's recent post in a day or two, but wanted to give this tidbit. I bought a PC camera at Ollies, an east-coast US chain of allegedly [] The PC camera was only 4 dollars, and it wasn't spherical like the one I [] with any software either, or a brand name. But tried it tonight in Vista, and it is working. Plug 'n' Play. Device Manager claims the manurfacturer is MS but I think it's confused. (I think that just means the Microsoft driver worked.) Okay. ;-) [] Oh, I need to take a still picture for an ID card. They want me to email it to them. Any software recommendations? Free, I guess, since I'm only going to use it once. Hmmm. It seems Skype will do this, Doesn't the Vista driver that it works with have a snapshot facility? I don't know. It's called usbvideo.sys and Vista found it when I plugged the camera in. I tried to run: usbvideo.sys, and it wouldn't do anything. Failing that, PrtScr might work. That's a great idea. I can crop it with mspaint or Irfanview. I never ever just plug my camera into the computer...I always take the card out and use a reader. I think micky's $4 camera is a webcam - no card involved. Right. (FWIW I do as you do when using a camera that does use a card.) |
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On 10/7/2015 7:00 PM, micky wrote:
In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, on Wed, 7 Oct 2015 20:18:45 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote: In message , philo writes: On 10/07/2015 02:43 AM, micky wrote: I'll answer Paul's recent post in a day or two, but wanted to give this tidbit. I bought a PC camera at Ollies, an east-coast US chain of allegedly [] The PC camera was only 4 dollars, and it wasn't spherical like the one I [] with any software either, or a brand name. But tried it tonight in Vista, and it is working. Plug 'n' Play. Device Manager claims the manurfacturer is MS but I think it's confused. (I think that just means the Microsoft driver worked.) Okay. ;-) [] Oh, I need to take a still picture for an ID card. They want me to email it to them. Any software recommendations? Free, I guess, since I'm only going to use it once. Hmmm. It seems Skype will do this, Doesn't the Vista driver that it works with have a snapshot facility? I don't know. It's called usbvideo.sys and Vista found it when I plugged the camera in. I tried to run: usbvideo.sys, and it wouldn't do anything. Failing that, PrtScr might work. That's a great idea. I can crop it with mspaint or Irfanview. I never ever just plug my camera into the computer...I always take the card out and use a reader. I think micky's $4 camera is a webcam - no card involved. Right. (FWIW I do as you do when using a camera that does use a card.) Download this http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html and see if this will give you the vendor and product ID's for your camera then plug that into google to see what it is and if drivers are available. Same information is available in device manager, but I don't remember whether xp device manager gives you info for devices that don't have drivers installed. Worth a try tho. ArcSoft Webcam companion will often work with cameras that install windows drivers, like your vista system. The stock windows viewer won't let you control anything. My 5MP webcam shows up as 640x480. Arcsoft lets me get the full resolution. It's not free. I use a version that came with another camera. Dorgem is a viewer that supports a wide range of cameras. Also worth a shot. Newer cameras don't have TWAIN drivers, so Irfanview probably won't help. I expect you looked, but many cameras have a tag on the cable near the USB plug that has the model number. |
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In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, on Thu, 08 Oct 2015 01:45:06
-0700, mike wrote: On 10/7/2015 7:00 PM, micky wrote: In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, on Wed, 7 Oct 2015 20:18:45 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote: In message , philo writes: On 10/07/2015 02:43 AM, micky wrote: I'll answer Paul's recent post in a day or two, but wanted to give this tidbit. I bought a PC camera at Ollies, an east-coast US chain of allegedly [] The PC camera was only 4 dollars, and it wasn't spherical like the one I [] with any software either, or a brand name. But tried it tonight in Vista, and it is working. Plug 'n' Play. Device Manager claims the manurfacturer is MS but I think it's confused. (I think that just means the Microsoft driver worked.) Okay. ;-) [] Oh, I need to take a still picture for an ID card. They want me to email it to them. Any software recommendations? Free, I guess, since I'm only going to use it once. Hmmm. It seems Skype will do this, Doesn't the Vista driver that it works with have a snapshot facility? I don't know. It's called usbvideo.sys and Vista found it when I plugged the camera in. I tried to run: usbvideo.sys, and it wouldn't do anything. Failing that, PrtScr might work. That's a great idea. I can crop it with mspaint or Irfanview. I never ever just plug my camera into the computer...I always take the card out and use a reader. I think micky's $4 camera is a webcam - no card involved. Right. (FWIW I do as you do when using a camera that does use a card.) Download this http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html and see if this will give you the vendor and product ID's for your camera then plug that into google to see what it is and if drivers are available. Hey, I love it. Thanks a lot. What's good goes beyond the camera I'm fiddling with. It's that it lists everything that's ever been plugged into the USB port. All the USB hard drives. Obviously there's a record for every one of them. This accounts for how Vista, and maybe XP, is able to remember whether to display photos or play music for a USB drive, and probably accounts for how it can remember what drive letter a USB HDD gets, which XP does remember. BTW, it says you have to download the list of manufacturers separately, and I had to do that twice because just saving the displayed file ran everything together. Copying and pasting into Notepad worked fine. Also, lots of other free software there too. I have to go over the list slowly, to see if I can use any. Great page. Same information is available in device manager, but I don't remember whether xp device manager gives you info for devices that don't have drivers installed. Worth a try tho. It gave a lot more info that device manager, including the manufacturer of the camera, Genesys Logic. No model number, interestingly, and The Genesys Log page doesn't mention cameras, only camera controllers. And it suggests that Windows includes the drivers. However, googling for drivers found me two quite different versions of drivers for a Genesys camera, with a model number a few numbers lower than anything on the Genesys webpage. In other word, it really was surplus, and that's why it's only 4 dollars. (BTW, it has a microphone I realize now that I hadn't read farther than the line above, and I haven't looked into Arcsoft or Dorgem yet. ArcSoft Webcam companion will often work with cameras that install windows drivers, like your vista system. The stock windows viewer won't let you control anything. My 5MP webcam shows up as 640x480. Arcsoft lets me get the full resolution. It's not free. I use a version that came with another camera. Dorgem is a viewer that supports a wide range of cameras. Also worth a shot. Newer cameras don't have TWAIN drivers, so Irfanview probably won't help. That was just to crop the picture, if it does that. I can't remember. I expect you looked, but many cameras have a tag on the cable near the USB plug that has the model number. I don't think so, but what's good is that I just remembered it has a microphone too, and it's working where my other microphone hasn't been. Pretty good for $4. (Not very good picture, fuzzy, but I'll tell people it's my artistry.) |
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micky wrote:
In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, on Thu, 08 Oct 2015 01:45:06 -0700, mike wrote: On 10/7/2015 7:00 PM, micky wrote: In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, on Wed, 7 Oct 2015 20:18:45 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote: In message , philo writes: On 10/07/2015 02:43 AM, micky wrote: I'll answer Paul's recent post in a day or two, but wanted to give this tidbit. I bought a PC camera at Ollies, an east-coast US chain of allegedly [] The PC camera was only 4 dollars, and it wasn't spherical like the one I [] with any software either, or a brand name. But tried it tonight in Vista, and it is working. Plug 'n' Play. Device Manager claims the manurfacturer is MS but I think it's confused. (I think that just means the Microsoft driver worked.) Okay. ;-) [] Oh, I need to take a still picture for an ID card. They want me to email it to them. Any software recommendations? Free, I guess, since I'm only going to use it once. Hmmm. It seems Skype will do this, Doesn't the Vista driver that it works with have a snapshot facility? I don't know. It's called usbvideo.sys and Vista found it when I plugged the camera in. I tried to run: usbvideo.sys, and it wouldn't do anything. Failing that, PrtScr might work. That's a great idea. I can crop it with mspaint or Irfanview. I never ever just plug my camera into the computer...I always take the card out and use a reader. I think micky's $4 camera is a webcam - no card involved. Right. (FWIW I do as you do when using a camera that does use a card.) Download this http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html and see if this will give you the vendor and product ID's for your camera then plug that into google to see what it is and if drivers are available. Hey, I love it. Thanks a lot. What's good goes beyond the camera I'm fiddling with. It's that it lists everything that's ever been plugged into the USB port. All the USB hard drives. Obviously there's a record for every one of them. This accounts for how Vista, and maybe XP, is able to remember whether to display photos or play music for a USB drive, and probably accounts for how it can remember what drive letter a USB HDD gets, which XP does remember. BTW, it says you have to download the list of manufacturers separately, and I had to do that twice because just saving the displayed file ran everything together. Copying and pasting into Notepad worked fine. Also, lots of other free software there too. I have to go over the list slowly, to see if I can use any. Great page. Same information is available in device manager, but I don't remember whether xp device manager gives you info for devices that don't have drivers installed. Worth a try tho. It gave a lot more info that device manager, including the manufacturer of the camera, Genesys Logic. No model number, interestingly, and The Genesys Log page doesn't mention cameras, only camera controllers. And it suggests that Windows includes the drivers. However, googling for drivers found me two quite different versions of drivers for a Genesys camera, with a model number a few numbers lower than anything on the Genesys webpage. In other word, it really was surplus, and that's why it's only 4 dollars. (BTW, it has a microphone I realize now that I hadn't read farther than the line above, and I haven't looked into Arcsoft or Dorgem yet. ArcSoft Webcam companion will often work with cameras that install windows drivers, like your vista system. The stock windows viewer won't let you control anything. My 5MP webcam shows up as 640x480. Arcsoft lets me get the full resolution. It's not free. I use a version that came with another camera. Dorgem is a viewer that supports a wide range of cameras. Also worth a shot. Newer cameras don't have TWAIN drivers, so Irfanview probably won't help. That was just to crop the picture, if it does that. I can't remember. I expect you looked, but many cameras have a tag on the cable near the USB plug that has the model number. I don't think so, but what's good is that I just remembered it has a microphone too, and it's working where my other microphone hasn't been. Pretty good for $4. (Not very good picture, fuzzy, but I'll tell people it's my artistry.) Genesys is the controller chip maker. Sensor ---- Controller ----- USB data&power And you'd still need to figure out whether it was UVC compliant or a custom driver. It is probably UVC, because Vista found it. I don't know when UVC was added to WinXP. It probably wasn't there with the initial release, but if you patched WinXP up to SP3, I would expect it to work. The sensor is not 5 mega pixels. Maybe via a very bad extrapolation, but not actual pixels in the sensor. I could find one comment (maybe Amazon???) that said it was a plain 640x480 sensor. Which is a lot less than 5 mega, no matter what the Bayer layout or imaginative math. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter 307200 user pixels, even if multiplied by 4 for the Bayer pattern, doesn't get us to 5 mega. So the 5 mega value is by extrapolation. And in my opinion, you're only fooling yourself when you accept extrapolation from a camera. I never turn my camera up like that. It's "native" or lower. Another point. In case you were feeling "cheated", is that USB2 does a nice job of 640x480 @ 30FPS. It doesn't seem to have a problem keeping up. For whatever reason, modern cameras, if they do 1600x1200 perhaps, they manage around 5FPS over USB2. Which sucks in a Skype call. So if all you got was an honest 640x480 @ 30FPS you're actually doing very well. A $100 webcam could probably take a nicer still photo, but for a Skype call, the common denominator of 640x480 @ 30FPS is more likely to be quite common. Especially if you don't have a lot of upload bandwidth on your ADSL connection. Mine is so crappy, I could only do a voice call, not any sort of video. ******* If I was on WinXP, I would use AMCAP for testing. AMCAP was originally a "demo" application with source code from Microsoft. Mostly unusable in its original state. People have taken that code and "made stuff" out of it. The result, is one person is selling his copy of AMCAP. Which is reasonably full featured, but I wouldn't spend money on it. You have to be careful, because not every copy of AMCAP might be safe. This is the copy I use. It is part of the BTWinCap package, which operates WinTV tuner cards. But it also includes a fixed up copy of AMCAP. You look through the unzipped download, for amcap.exe . http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/b...3.zip?download amcap.exe 143360 bytes // // File Checksum Integrity Verifier version 2.05. // MD5 SHA-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 88d25636842554451cf131159020c7a3 c8895cb894eca17e7469959f90f933ea73964515 amcap.exe Note - at first it will throw a couple error dialogs. Relax. Go to the menu where webcams are listed, and re-select your device. The window should turn black when AMCAP connects to the device, and then the light level should come up for you. Both my UVC cameras work with that, on WinXP SP3. Paul |
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