Nov 08, 2008 06:23 pm Cool. Good info, P.
Webcams have been under $20 for years, but I've never owned one because I'd just want to use it.
F ya no whut I mean.
camera / camcorder as webcam
Posted on Nov 08, 2008 05:53 pm
pjk
Prince CZAR-ming
Member Since: Apr 08, 2004
Just been putzin around with non-webcam webcams.
My sister is in Australia, and we wanted to video chat on thanksgiving, but I do not have a webcam.
But, I do have a camcorder, and a digital camera.
I started with the camcorder, and got it working by using a program called splitcam. This program lives between your firewire DV cam and the chat / skype. Once splitcam is running, you can tell chat / skype to use the splitcam device, and you get video.
For my digicam, I had to load the software that came with my canon A series (mine is an A75, at work is an A620). Once the software for taking remove pictures is loaded and running (giving you a vid feed on screen) I loaded camtasia to export a window of the screen in real time. Then in chat (didn't try in skype) tell the video setup that you're using the camtasia live feed.
That worked as well. You need to tell camtasia you want live output feed, not recording to HD.
Neither of these provide sound, but that was easy enough to get running otherwise.
Just in case anyone else wanted to make these non-webcams working in chat / skype.
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Nov 08, 2008 06:23 pm Cool. Good info, P.
Webcams have been under $20 for years, but I've never owned one because I'd just want to use it.
F ya no whut I mean.
Nov 08, 2008 06:29 pm ha, good point. lazy duck that i am.
Nov 08, 2008 09:28 pm Ya, I've been pondering setting up a webcam thing to use with Skype when Tuna gets sent abroad. He has webcam/mic built into his Toshiba so ti would be easy for him. I need a wide angle one though so we can all sit in here and be on to chat with him. I might try that bit you did though pjk, good info.
But as Herb stated, the USB webcam things are pretty cheap now so that might be just as easy.
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