Help, I'm new to the world of webcams

[johnjohn320]

Alright, here's the situation:

I bought a webcam today, the Veo "Stingray." A friend of mine in St. Louis recently bought a Logitech something-or-other. So, obviously we were curious and decided to try a video chat. We're text-messaging each other in MSN messenger, and he sends me an invitation for video conference or something. I accept, and netmeeting opens up. After a couple mins, we're both in netmeeting, in the same "conference." But, alas, no video, which he thinks should be playing in the little window. Instead, there's just the NetMeeting logo that's always there. No sound either, and we both have mics hooked up. He tells me to look under tools. Send is checked, which he says should be, but receive is in gray. Same situation with him. We don't know exactly what to make of that.

So, he has since gotten off-line, but I'm still on a quest to figure this out. Both of our mics work separately on our computers (we can open up the camera's software and "film" stuff just fine). But for some reason this conferencing isn't working. The only idea I've been toying with but have not yet managed to test yet is, maybe I have to have the software for my camera running before entering the "conference"? I dunno, just thinking out loud. Can someone who has experience with these durned things help me (us) out?

Thakns.

 

[gwlam12]

stringray isnt that good.

get the discontinued intel deluxe webcam

also, check to see that ur firewalls are off, or if they are on, to allow ur program to access the internet (netmeetign).

cuseeme is a good alternative if netmeeting does not work

 

[johnjohn320]

The problem isn't the camera in this situation...Of course there are better cameras out there, but this should work to some extent, it's not like I just bought a piece of plastic that doesn't really act as a camera.

I have no firewalls, and I'm pretty sure he doesn't, considering he has video-chatted with people in the past.

I might check out that program, push come to shove.

 

[johnjohn320]

Hmm, after re-reading the manual, I think I have an idea. Alas, my friend is still offline. Would anyone here with a webcam care to allow me to try out my idea?

 

[Angrymarshmello]

I'll try it out, you have AIM?

 

[johnjohn320]

OK, Well RagingBITCH and I hooked up and took it a step further, but we've hit another snafu, if anyone would like to contribute:

Basically, I can see him, but he can't see me. I have the "MyVideo" window open and pressed play, so I can see myself in that window and him in the other. He just apparently can't see me. I have "send" and "receive" both checked, but for him, "receive" is now grayed for some reason.

Any ideas?

 

[TNTrulez]

I never had a webcam before but I'm interested in how this works. Can you tell me what you do to get everything working?

 

[gwlam12]

Originally posted by: johnjohn320
OK, Well RagingBITCH and I hooked up and took it a step further, but we've hit another snafu, if anyone would like to contribute:

Basically, I can see him, but he can't see me. I have the "MyVideo" window open and pressed play, so I can see myself in that window and him in the other. He just apparently can't see me. I have "send" and "receive" both checked, but for him, "receive" is now grayed for some reason.

Any ideas?

oh yea, i remmeber having that problem. i think i fixed it by formatting. haha, sorry, nto very helpful , but i think that's what i did.

cuseeme should work. software costs money though.