using a web cam with VPC 5.

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Turner - 30 Aug 2005 20:53 GMT

Does VPC support web cameras. I am using a usb based I/O magic IPC 380
cam, running VPC 5.0on a Powerbook G4 OS 10.5. The softwear loads fine
but the cam image is black no image. online chated with Henry about
this issue threw it back you your team. So watcha ya think???

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Steve Jain - 30 Aug 2005 21:33 GMT

>Does VPC support web cameras.

Nope.

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Ole-E. Nesse - 30 Aug 2005 23:57 GMT

A thing that REALLY WORKS is Yahoo Messenger!!! :-)

Even with iSight, for mac..;-)

Ole

On 8/30/05 21:53, in article
1125431609.221687.197520@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com, "Turner"
<usoanon@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Does VPC support web cameras. I am using a usb based I/O magic IPC 380
> cam, running VPC 5.0on a Powerbook G4 OS 10.5. The softwear loads fine
> but the cam image is black no image. online chated with Henry about
> this issue threw it back you your team. So watcha ya think???

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Unseelie - 31 Aug 2005 19:06 GMT

I've yet to find a webcam that works with Virtual PC. They tend to
saturate the emulated USB bus.

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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / August 2005

using a web cam with VPC 5.