abel
March 21, 2002, 2:41am
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I posted this over in Fathom, but I figured I’d better give you brilliant people a shot at the glory as well, so here ya go…
Okay, this is actually a couple question/issues I’ve been having so here goes…
A) I have a USB Logitech QuickCam attached to my WinXP 900 MHz Athlon, 512 MB RAM, 40 GB HDD Compaq Desktop. It works fine when I use the QuickCam program to run it (I have the latest version of it and the drivers), but when I try to use WinXP’s camera preview that is built into the OS, it refuses to work. I swapped my USB ports around one time, and the (renamed) camera worked okay, but then I rebooted and it was back to square one. Any ideas?
B) I have a program called Timershot that comes with TweakUI for WinXP. It sounds like a great little program, it’s supposed to take a picture with your webcam over any given interval of time, and store those pictures wherever you want, webpage, hard drive, whatever. It CLAIMS to do that. In my experience, it removes the My Computer icon from my desktop, refuses to take pictures using my webcam, and generally makes a nuisance of itself. I’ve checked Microsoft’s website for patches, and Googled as well, to no avail. So now I’m turning to you, O Worthy Think Tankers. Go ahead, make my day!
I’m pretty sure that some of the issues of my second question are connected to issues of my first question, so if I could get the webcam to preview in Windows Explorer, that would solve most of what’s wrong.
And remember, a shiny new donkey to the person who solves this conundrum.
CAn we then assume you’ve read thwack’s thread on this over at Fathom? Try running webcam in Win2K compatibility mode under XP.
abel
March 21, 2002, 5:05pm
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Yes, I’ve read Thwack’s thread, but here’s the thing… that’s a different program. I have no webcam32.exe program anywhere on my hard drive. I’m talking about the integrated webcam/scanner preview function that comes with Windows XP. The Logitech program that comes with QuickCam works fine by itself, but I’d rather use the preview, as it works/opens faster (when it works), and Timershot, which almost never works.
This is Webcam32, but again, I’m not using it.