[AG-TECH] MS LifeCam and AG

[Nathan Gardiner]

I had similar problems I had to overcome with the MS LifeCam with AG
2.4, but with AG 3.0.2 it works for me straight out of the box. Just
make sure when setting up VIdeoProducer that you select the MS LifeCam
and not just the WDM driver etc.


Nathan

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On
Behalf Of Mike.W.Daley at cs.cardiff.ac.uk
Sent: Friday, 18 May 2007 2:30 p.m.
To: Michael Miller
Cc: AG TECH
Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] MS LifeCam and AG

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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