Microsoft Life Cam

[Pioneer Woman]

I was given a Microsoft Life Cam for Christmas 2006, and to this day, I have no idea how it works.

I've got it installed. These are the problems...

1. audio is "tinny" . very low audio, tinny sound

2. When talking into the camera, my movements are showing about 3-5 seconds after I do them. If I wave, the wave comes a few seconds later. When I talk, my mouth moves later. :o

There's no volume control, nothing to click on for video movement. I searched the "help" but can't find anything that has helped me.

I was given this by someone who doesn't know anything about using it. It was just a gift for me cause I had expressed a desire to do blogging using videos instead. I had no idea, it would be bought for me!

Any ideas, helps, information would be most appreciated. :)

[Enoch]

You are lagging. Try upgrading the speed of your line. Video compression over a line is extreme and that's alot of data to pump out. If you cannot go any higher on your line, try upgrading your video card and RAM. But, even 1000000000000000000000000000 bytes of RAM and the top of the line video card will not get the data out of your ethernet card any quicker if the available bandwidth isn't there.

The people you see on the news doing those vid shots are on T-3s or even greater lines.

I understand they were working on special lines just for video/audio, like a closed-caption Internet. I'm out of the loop lately so I don't know how that's going. They've been working on it for years but electric Internet is not too far off and that will be a thing of the past, well until users fill that up with more stuff.

[Pioneer Woman]

Enoch,

Thank you so much for your reply.

Sounds like maybe it's my computer being too slow, but not sure how to do bandwith. Is that internet speed? I am connected to the internet by the cable tv company.

If electric computers are faster, that will be nice to have that someday. Like you said though, even that might slow down with so many things out there to download and all. :)

Thank you again for responding, I do appreciate it. :hug

[zzdust]

You can go into the camera options and turn off the auto-brightness functionality. Then set the brightness level to about what works.

This will vastly spead up the camera.

[Kung]

Nethog, we have received an official complaint from a certain poster concerning laundry.

You really need to get a move on that, or else we'll have no choice but to air your dirty laundry.

:chatter

[Pioneer Woman]

You can go into the camera options and turn off the auto-brightness functionality. Then set the brightness level to about what works.

This will vastly spead up the camera.


NetHog, thanks for the additional advice. I'll try that! :hug