So today I was messing with an old digital camera of mine and I had it connected to my PC and I noticed while it was connected windows was able to use it as a webcam even though the Camera had no mention of this as a feature at all. I was able to use it as a webcam on yahoo messenger and MSN messenger.
The digital camera is like a cheap 1.5 mp toy that can't even make videos. The question is would there be a way to someone maybe create a app or a driver that would allow windows/linux to use the camera as a webcam ?
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CoolCamera:
Code:
http://www.ateksoft.com/features.html
A Blue Angel-compatible release is planned. Does anyone have experience with this program and/or any input on whether it will really give better resolution photographs?
maybe you should ask guys from ateksoft about that.
my opinion is that it may improve camera quality but not so much
tbh the only reason i've been waiting for is to use my BA as a webcam,
Something called Webcam for Pocket PC at http://zone1.de/PocketPC/index.html#webcam (lite and full) and Webcam for Pocket PC - WPS Edition (integrates with Skyhook Wireless for WPS (software-only Wireless Positioning System), which in turn can optionally interoperate with GPS.
In short, you can take a photo and have it automatically upload to your FTP with geographical coordinates.
That doesn't sound like a true webcam to me, but could be useful - particularly for journalists. (BA users will probably want to invest in a better cam via SD/IO.)
i have nokia 6600 it has vga camera, there is a lot of software for improving image resolution, but all of them are interpolating the 640x480 images to higher resolution but the quality is not so good, i believe that coolcamera will work in the same way
Hello,
I tried to use the MS portrait but by default it selects the first camera not the secondary front facing. In options there is only one camera listed, whats the solution to this?
Thank you.
What are you tring to do? There is camera software for winmo phones that is great for using different cams and stuff here it is http://www.ateksoft.com/
If you haven't tried ComVu PocketCaster, I highly recommend it.
www.comvu.com or www.pocketcaster.com
I'm trying to use MSN messanger/portrait with the front facing camera?
You got portrait to work on the Kaiser? With me it always throws an error.
What version did you install?
beta, 3.1 but its using the main camera, not the front camera.
HI,
I recently bought HTC tytn II. My main purpose to buy this powerfull device is Voice chat and Video chat...
Please let me know the performance of MS portrait on tytn II... can we do voice chat smoothly?????
My experience of MS Portrait on my Kaiser is not very good.
It only seems to work with other versions of Portrait for voice or video and not with Live Messenger.
IM text chat to PC Live Messenger works just as well as "Mobile" Live Messenger to PC Live Messenger, and I stil get incoming Hotmail notifications.
Video, even over wifi LAN, was poor to non existent in my experience.
The only Camera it will work with is the rear facing camera, I tried setting up the forward facing camera in the camera app and then going into the settings for Portrait but still only the rear facing camera works.
I havent tried a 3g Video Phone call so I have no idea how well the Kaiser copes with the demands of 2 way video and audio processing and data transfer, but as far as portrait goes technically it works as a proof of concept but is far from being usable. Portrait is only beta software so there is hope for future improvements. Cool Camera and Webcam Plus, both from Ateksoft, were mentioned earlier but are not currently compatible with the Kaiser.
I have read somewhere that HTC have not released the full APIs for the cameras. I guess this will hinder 3rd party development.
Anybody knowing the program for yahoo messenger and using the webcam at tytn 2 ? The IM + doesnt support that...
Thanks
As far as I know, there is no way currently to use the Cameras as a webcam. MSPortrait is a free beta app that can connect to MSN, ILS etc. It does suport video both ways, in theory, but it will not use the front facing camera and video performance was poor to non existant in my trials. CoolCamera also do webcam software but it is not compatible with the Kaiser yet.
Does anyone know if it's possible to access the forward-facing video camera via software oneself, even if the Video Call feature is not available on your network ? I work for at a hospital and as a "pet project" ( telemedicine ) one of the doctors who has a Kaiser would like to be able to video conference in with the forward facing camera. I would like to pursue this ( and I just might get a Kaiser for myself in the process..hint..hint ), and am curious if anyone has attempted to access the QCIF camera directly.
Any suggestions will be welcomed. Thank you.
Yes
open the camera application, the open the camera menu. (little bar below in the screen) lower line in the middle shows camera, press this button and the camera switch to the forward camera...
And if you want the front camera to start up by default, I scanned the registry and you should change the following:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE --> software --> HTC --> Camera --> common
change the value of activecameraID from 1 to 2, voila front camera will start first.
offtopic: did anyone tried this already with an voip program and videovoiping? going to check it right away... Because it always starts the rear camera...
cheers
It doesn't work with MS Portrait
I have emailed MS regarding updates to Portrait and compatibility with front facing cameras. They replied saying they are aware of the Camera issue and that they would notify me of any updates.
I am not holding my breath... MS updates are few and far between compared to the rate of development achieved by some of the geniuses on here.
Thanks but....
Thanks for the replies, but I meant programmatically. I'm not trying to take pictures. I want to know where I can find information about how to programmatically access the camera, for a custom application that would run over 3G which would both stream video to the display, and capture and stream video out of the QCIF ....just as if the video call feature were available, but for networks where this is not possible.
As I said, this is for supporting a telemedicine application, that would allow the doctor to interact with a patient at bedside, when they are not physcially present.
For an application that would allow the video conferencing, you might want to consider MeBeam (www.mebeam.com). It's a flash based site that allows you to video conference with up to eight other people. I'm not sure if their flash application will be able to detect your hardware, but it's worth a shot.
I am wondering if I might be able to interface the tablet with a camera, be it using the composite input, USB or Bluetooth, and then recording it to the SD.
Would make a great reverse camera display to. Perhaps used for both forward facing DVR and reverse camera selection/split screen.
Any known hardware and apps that would allow this?
Or is there another ~7" tablet that has better inputs to suit this application?