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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: beridan on March 05, 2004, 03:43:34 pm

Title: Webcam
Post by: beridan on March 05, 2004, 03:43:34 pm

Is it possible to use a webcam with Media Jukebox or to stream webcam video without importing from a jpeg file?

Title: Re:Webcam
Post by: JimH on March 06, 2004, 06:03:33 pm

If you have a TV card, you might be able to use one of the inputs on the TV portion of MC.

Title: Re:Webcam
Post by: KingSparta on March 06, 2004, 06:20:23 pm

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Is it possible to use a webcam with Media Jukebox

Why?

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you might be able to use one of the inputs on the TV portion of MC.

I could not find a way to do anything with my webcam and mc, never really thought about it before now. I also looked under "my computer" since it was a device thought it might be listed with the drives.

Title: Re:Webcam
Post by: JimH on March 06, 2004, 07:08:55 pm

The video inputs on a TV card are accessible from the TV control in MC.   They're called something like "Video Input 1" and "Video Input 2".

Yaobing, please correct me if I'm wrong.

I've used these to record a VHS tape in MC.

Not all TV cards will have connectors that are compatible with your web cam or VHS player or ....