And webcams

[88V8]

Via Zoom, OH hopes to attend the next meeting of our local book club.
Zoom is now loaded and working, problem... we have no webcam and no mike.

So I bought a Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000, not realising that it's an antique with software ten years old. Logitech's website is a maze, and what I think is the right software won't complete its load grrr.

So... any recommendations for a webcam?

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[Infrasonic]

https://www.tomsguide.com/uk/best-picks ... 1585490867

I've got a Logitech C920.

[ReformedCharacter]

I sympathise having had similar problems with a Logitech webcam, but before you give up, have you tried:

https://logitechdriversupport.com/logit ... -pro-9000/

I've found Microsoft webcams much easier. Judging from a quick look at Amazon they seem to be in short supply.

RC

[Infrasonic]

You can run Zoom on a laptop/tablet/mobile if needs be and use the built in camera/microphone.
iOS/Android apps available.

[88V8]

You can run Zoom on a laptop/tablet/mobile if needs be and use the built in camera/microphone.

Or could, if one had such things

The issues has become more pressing. I found a driver on the Logitech site, got the camera working other than the videocall facility which wouldn't connect, then a couple of hours later came back to find a blue screen. So here I am in Safe mode.
Hmmph.

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[GeoffF100]

You could try Linux:

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=306915

It might work easily if you follow the link:

http://wiki.oz9aec.net/index.php/Logite ... m_Pro_9000

You can use a live DVD or USB to try it. You do not have to install Linux on your hard drive.

Most of the posts about Linux problems are for problems that have either been fixed or only occur in obscure circumstances that I never encounter.

[xeny]

So I bought a Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000, not realising that it's an antique with software ten years old.

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Coincidentally I've been using one of those recently. It just worked with Windows 10, I'd suggest not installing any software at all.

[88V8]

[Coincidentally I've been using one of those recently. It just worked with Windows 10, I'd suggest not installing any software at all.

Interesting. The chap from whom I bought it said it was plug & play.

Oddly enough, having said there had been no software update for ten years, a couple of days ago, an update, 133mb of it which perhaps foolishly I loaded. Now the interface looks more modern, the quaint little stick with the controls on it has gone, but so have the audio controls !

Anyway. last night we used it for real in a Zoom bookclub meeting. We could see and hear them, they could hear us so the built-in mike was working, but not see us.
Zoom recognised the camera, but there was no video. I manually moved the settings from Picture to Video and we got a bluescreen crash.

Then we restarted and tried to reconnect 'with video' and got another bluescreen.
So that was that.

This morning I ran a compatability check, and the setting had to be changed to XP SP2.

I wonder if it will actually run with Zoom. It's not in the camera's apps menu and there seems to be no way of adding anything.

Perhaps I should just buy something new.
Sigh.

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On eBay, I see the Logitech 920 at around £90 incl postage, and I see people bidding on identical cameras well over £100. The wonder of eBay.

[xeny]

Have you tried uninstalling al the "software" you're adding? There's a standard for wecams connected via USB called UVC which I believe it follows, so no software is needed.

Where are you

"I manually moved the settings from Picture to Video" ?

Have you tried going to https://webcamtests.com/check and seeing if everything works properly?

[88V8]

Have you tried uninstalling al the "software" you're adding? There's a standard for wecams connected via USB called UVC which I believe it follows, so no software is needed.

Have you tried going to https://webcamtests.com/check and seeing if everything works properly?

I had a try but it doesn't like IE. I feel another Topic coming on...

Well, bizarrely, uninstalling the software turned out to be the solution. We attended a Zoom meeting and it just... worked.
I think I'll christen it the Bad Hair cam. Our neighbour with whom we had the meeting seems to have the Nostril cam. I feel a makeup course coming on.

I now have no control over the camera - zoom pan tilt volume - so I'm slightly tempted to download again and then delete the useless bits and just leave the controller which I think was a separate packet, but only slightly. Let well alone perhaps.

Thankyou muchly. The power of the Forum.

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