- This topic has 10 replies, 6 voices, and was last updated 22 years, 3 months ago by
.
-
Posts
-
I send my webcam invitation, and, they accept, the little screen comes up, and its black, on their computer it says connected, on mine it says connecting, then after about 2 or 3 minutes, it just cuts off, but its black the whole time, so yeah, anyone know what’s wrong? I have a aiptek pencam… thanks 🙂
sry for the double post, but couldnt find the edit button lol…
this will help, I plug my cam in my usb, it says reading information, I close out of that (so I know the drivers work) I go to audio/video config or whatever and I can see myself, and all is fine, but if I go to webcam settings its a grey screen like I have nothing plugged in…. so yeah…
Are you behind a firewall or a router? What operating system are you using, and what version of Messenger?
no firewall, yes router, MSN messenger 6.2, but it didnt work on MSN messenger 6.1 or even before that, and I may be wrong, but, I believe it didnt work before I got the router, and, if it helps, I had to go into the regestry to add my camera’s settings for it to be compatable with yahoo messenger… so yeah lol…
forgive me for the spelling, I JUST woke up lol
Well, of course, no one is going to know for sure an answer, there can be a lot of things that can be wrong.
If when you go to the webcam settings there is nothing there, is because your cam is not well recognized by MSN, meaning that your drivers, although they are good, might not be updated enough.
Try unintalling the drivers, and I mean uninstall them completely and delete them:
1. Check your manufacturer’s site for the last update on drivers for your OS.
or
2. Make windows look for them automatically (that should work, but sometimes it doesnt).So, don’t trust that windows recognized the cam after installing its drivers, they must be updated to work with the latests MSN.
The fact that the cam works with sone other IM or Image Capturing programs doesn’t mean it has to work with MSN.
The updating thing is what I always recommend (even if I am tired of repeating that over and over). Other thing is, if you or who you talk to are on dial-up it sometimes will just cut off the communication…but that wouldnt explain why you don’t see yourself in webcam settings. Try the updating and then post.
N.-
EDIT: And…mmm…your editing button is right on top of your post, there is an icon showing a pencil and a piece of paper. I am sure some people here will appreciate you use it now you know where it is.
wow the effort i’ve gone to help you out helloiamheath..
and you prolly already worked this out or are long gone 😛
anyways your answer is as follows:
requires a program called trackercam it’ll install its own wdm image driver…
from the trackercam software you can select your wdm usb image device(aka your dvcam) then in MSN select the trackercam wdm driver as your video source.. all will work 😉
if your is using the firewire port on the dvcam im not 100% if trackercam supports it(i think it does but not sure) if not the same site for trackercam has a shareware proggie called dvdriver….
hope this helps ya
i had a problem with my Cam and eventually gave up. It was very similar to the thread starter’s
I was just thinking, do only Logitech Cams work with msn? My cam works just fine with Yahoo Messenger.
I came to the Logitech conclusion because when a webcam session starts, it always says something like ‘webcam By Logitech’Anyone know if I’m right for once?
no, swann cams also work fine.. it has got something directly to do with msn’s webcam support tho and the wdm driver (it doesnt support vfw afaik aswell.. but yea many wdm’s implimentations fail to work in msn)
perhaps MSN doesnt initialize the cams to the correct standard(skips a few steps??) or doesnt support certain standards (ntsc vs pal colour, certain frame rates… certain resolutions could be anything. but yea, it cant start many dvcams in particular, and we are talking about ones that have got a wdm driver for its webcam functionality that does work in windows OS/netmeeting/yahoo and so on..
btw for the dvcams that dont directly support webcam functionality but do support dv thru firewire you can use things such as trackercam (some have suggested splitcam before but I had no luck with it) to “rebroadcast” the image back on its own wdm image driver, which is compatible with msn.
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.