zc3xx usb camera, what viewer?

gene heskett gheskett at wdtv.com
Tue Sep 28 17:21:12 UTC 2010


On Tuesday, September 28, 2010 01:17:49 pm gene heskett did opine:

> On Tuesday, September 28, 2010 12:43:56 pm Michael Hirsch did opine:
> > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 9:06 AM, gene heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> 
wrote:
> > > Greetings all;
> > > 
> > > I pulled out an old Labtec usb camera this morning to see if it
> > > would work any better on a full speed usb2.0 circuit. �But I don't
> > > know what display program to use.
> > 
> > Kopete will show your camera image.  In the Settings there is a tab
> > for video that lets you see your camera's image.
> 
> Apparently at 1/2 resolution.  With cheese I can get a 640x480, much
> sharper.  Unforch, cheese will not show me a directory where I actually
> have permissions to save a snapshot.  Not that I want to presently
> anyway, I had a skin cancer removed yesterday, and have a knee sized
> bandaid in front of my right ear.  Ahh, PEBKAC, I was running it as
> amanda, dropping back to gene, it works.  If it makes it through the
> server, a 27k .jpg is attached.
> 
> > Unless you have a partner to talk with, you can't do much else with
> > the camera in kopete, however.  But it is nice for a quick check if
> > you are like me and kopete is always running.
> > 
> > Michael

Well, I'll be, it made it through the server.  Now everyone can see this 
"handsome" old fart, who will get the stitches out from under that band-aid 
next Monday, same day I'll be 76 YO.

Anybody here that can beat that?

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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They never meet.




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