[AG-TECH] MS LifeCam and AG

[Mike.W.Daley at cs.cardiff.ac.uk]

Thats strange I bought one of these a couple of months ago and it  
worked straight out of the box with vic.
Mike

Quoting Michael Miller <mimiller at ncsa.uiuc.edu>:

> I had a little trouble getting my LifeCam to work with AG.  Each time
> vic started it complained about a 640X480 res from the camera.  Even
> setting the res in the LifeCam software didn't help.  But I noticed
> that vic would transmit for a few seconds before crashing.  So I
> restarted it and quickly went to the menu button and opened the vic
> menu dialog.  Then released the camera.  This gave me a chance to
> select the 'Configure on Transmit' option and make sure that the Device
> was set to 'Microsoft Image Capture'.  Then when clicking 'transmit'
> again the camera driver dialogs come up letting you select 352X288 res
> and other settings.  I found if you set the Device to '...LifeCam' the
> res settings don't stick and you have to run this process over again.
>
> So for my wishlist, can I add getting vic to handle bad res more
> gracefully.  Vic should just stop transmitting and take you to the menu
> dialog so you can set things properly.
>
> hope this helps



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