I was wondering if anyone could help me with this.
I just got a shiny new laptop with Vista and I’m trying to use my built in webcam to record video and save it. It works perfectly with MSN and other applications but I can’t seem to find a program that will save my video.
I’ve tried using Windows Movie Maker, but it doesn’t have a webcam capture option like it did in Win XP.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can do and what programs I can use?
Thanks,
James
hmmmmm i have a web cam and it works just fine with vista…add me on msn…we will try to work it out…
What laptop didja get?
Some webcams can’t (or don’t) record video. I got a new laptop last month; it has an integrated webcam that can stream video for video chat, and it can take still pictures, but it doesn’t capture video.
That’s probably the case with yours…
I got the Acer Aspire 6920.
I’m trying to see if I can find Open Source programs, but I can only find ones that upload to and FTP server.
Haha awesome, I just got the Aspire 5920.
But… can’t help you. I’d like to find a program like that myself.
Sweet. I was looking at that one and other similar to it, but the grey/white inside turned me off of it. A sleek, black lappy is more my style.
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Did yours come with the Acer Crystal Eye webcam? if so, that program will let you record and save. I have an acer as well, bought it last night.
It did come with the Crystal Eye but it seems that the program will only let me take stills. Maybe I’m missing something?
I can’t seem to find the video capture options on the program it came with.
Mine has the Crystal Eye program as well. I remember reading something about it not being able to take capture video.
I don’t know about any third party capture program or anything though…
Dang, that sucks. 
I want to use it to vlog and to be able to cut and edit things in those videos.
I’ll keep looking for programs though, I’m sure there’s some way I can make it capture video.
Hey I found out how to do it! Just tried it myself and it works great, although it’s slightly confusing, and I haven’t figured out how to get audio yet…
Anyway it turns out there’s a program already included with the Acer (at least, there is with mine, your’s should be the same).
Go to c:\windows\SUYIN NB Cam\LiweCam.exe and select your webcam from the devices menu.
You also have to specify the save location and the max. captured file size… seems kind of odd.
Actually the whole thing is kinda of obscure, but hey, it works.
Ah, I figured out how to record audio along with it. There is an option under Capture you have to select to record audio, but I did that and it didn’t work.
Turns out that the other day I had enabled “stereo mix” under recording in control panel/sound options, in order to get audio on a game I was playing. I had to disable that to capture audio…
SWEET!!! i have a quote in that pic. haha