Webcam Capture Program

[NorCal Dan]

I am looking for a PC based webcam capture program, prefer free, to handle capturing my Logitech Pro-9000 image.  Currently have it handled by WD under Parallels on my iMac but the wdwebcamcapture program locks up every night so I need a replacement program. 

[niko]

Do you want it to annotate the image, or just capture and upload it?

[JaxWeather]

I use Fwink on another machine that doesn't run WD to upload that webcam image:
http://www.lundie.ca/fwink/

-Bob

[NorCal Dan]

Thanks. FWink installed and I'm setting it up now.  No, I don't need a program to annotate the image.  I could just have the image saved to the harddrive and let WD pick it up.  I just can't rely on WD to capture the image...

[niko]

Yawcam is another one you could try.

[Weather Display]

I have a Logitech 9000 and use wdwebcamcapture.exe
no lock ups

but some people have had trouble, and it basicly down to the Logiteh driver used

[JaxWeather]

I have a Logitech 9000 and use wdwebcamcapture.exe
no lock ups

For what its worth    I am also using WDWebcamCapture with a Pro 9000 without any problems at all and I also run a Pro 5000 with WD also without any problems...

-Bob

[NorCal Dan]

Dunno, won't run overnight for me...

Fwink would work if they fix the timer.

Checking Yawcam now...

[Weather Display]

I think the newer drivers are the problem
mine is from 14 may 2010, version 13.0.1783.0

[NorCal Dan]

Stumbled onto WebCamXP and so far I like it.  I do have Yawcam downloaded but haven't installed it yet.  It's free for one source webcam, non-commercial use.  It's handling the ftp to my webserver but I may try to use it under the WD 3rd party setup (just to limit my ftp sessions).

[iomkiwi]

I am trying out TinCam, have had three cameras running on it  (Pro 9000, LifeCam Cinema, and a reversing camera on USB capture device)

[NorCal Dan]

Thanks Alan.  I might give it a try as it will handle multiple webcams.  WebCamXP will also, but at a huge difference in price from TinCam.

[Axelvold]

Thanks Alan.  I might give it a try as it will handle multiple webcams.  WebCamXP will also, but at a huge difference in price from TinCam.

I would recommend TinCam, It's very easy to use-

I use it with 5 cams

[Kilo-India]

Interesting about the lockups.  I was having the same issue every morning and it seems to have stopped (nothing that I did).  Someone had suggested it may be the USB ports hibernating but I verified that they do not; at least on my system.  I suspect that there may be a processor limitation (with all that WD and the capture program does) that just completely bogs down the machine causing the lockup.  Every morning I could only shut down wdwebcamcapture via the task manager.  once I did that and restarted the capture program all was fine until the over night hours again.  I have never been able to put my finger on the actual problem.  Anyone else see this?

Thanks

AJ.

[looney2ns]

Interesting about the lockups.  I was having the same issue every morning and it seems to have stopped (nothing that I did).  Someone had suggested it may be the USB ports hibernating but I verified that they do not; at least on my system.  I suspect that there may be a processor limitation (with all that WD and the capture program does) that just completely bogs down the machine causing the lockup.  Every morning I could only shut down wdwebcamcapture via the task manager.  once I did that and restarted the capture program all was fine until the over night hours again.  I have never been able to put my finger on the actual problem.  Anyone else see this?

Thanks

AJ.

Yes, I see the same thing only It's very random in nature in my case. It may happen after two or three days of running or it may go much longer. I've not been able to put a rhyme nor reason to it. Using Axis network cam here.