Questions tagged [webcam]
A webcam is a video camera that sends its video data to a computer in real time, as opposed to recording it first.
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Do most webcams contain ROMs (which could contain malware)?
If I use a plug and play webcam, is it likely to contain a ROM (e.g., for drivers)? If so, is it likely to contain a virgin PROM when purchased?
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Dell Latitude 5520 microphone and camera stopped working
On one Dell Latitude 5520 notebook with Windows 10 latest version the Realtek microphone array and the Integrated WebCam stopped working.
Uninstalling, reinstalling drivers, updating everything ...
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GoPro webcam app is blocked
I've got the GoPro Hero 9 and I'd like to use it in my Windows laptop.
I've followed all the steps described here but when I want to open the app I get this message:
it says "Seems the app was ...
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USB Composite Hub not detected, Windows 10
I've been having an issue lately with a webcam that I have above a TV quite far away from a Windows computer, not easily accessible. To reach it, I'm using a USB extension with a repeater + a second ...
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Why does Firefox not acknowledge camera and mic access on web page?
Gave Firefox camera and microphone access, but message requesting it displays and partly blocks the web page. On Windows 10 with the current version of Firefox on an HP desktop, a NexiGo N930AF USB ...
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Microsoft Surface Camera and Zoom/Skype/Everything
My Surface 7 Pro lives in a stand. It lives in a portrait orientation next to a 27" high dpi display. It is a great setup.
EXCEPT it stinks for Zoom and other web meeting apps... because the ...
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How to access Windows Hello IR Camera
I have a Surface Pro 6 with a Windows Hello integrated infrared camera. Months ago, while using app.houseparty.com, a video calling service that has since been shut down, I discovered that it let you ...
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Camera opens but shows no image
I have an built-in camera in my laptop (System-Windows 7, 64-bit). It used to work fine usually in zoom. But now when I turn on my camera in zoom it displays the white light besides the camera showing ...
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How to get webcam working in VirtualBox
I am running a dual-boot of Windows 10 and Ubuntu LTS 20.04. On the Windows partition, the webcam works without any problems. But in the Ubuntu partition the webcam does not work, shows in neither &...
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Pop-OS! set default camera
I am on a fresh install of Pop-OS! and I have a web cam and capture card plugged in. Sometimes apps will pick up only the capture card as the first and only device (until I unplug it, then the webcam ...
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Using openRTSP to record from Eufy Cam 2 Pro
I have a couple of Eufy Cam 2 Pros. I want to record the RTSP streams to my NAS.
I have tried the built-in NAS service, which only works with synology, as well as many open source video recording ...
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Dell Peripheral Manager 1.5.0 Shows Service Not Running
I recently purchased a Dell WB7022 Webcam. After setting it up and installing the Dell Peripheral Manager (version 1.4.2) software everything was fine. I was able to configure the webcam and tweak ...
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New NexiGo WebCam working as expected, however, the Cheese application starts recording at the time the cam was plugged in
Each-time I try to record myself using the cheese application, the app starts recording at the time that my web cam was plugged in. In other words, each recording, starts at 00:00, but instead of ...
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Change default position of "camera shared" marker on Firefox
On Firefox, a marker appears at the center in the top border of my screen whenever an app is allowed access to the camera.
Are there any config options of Firefox which would allow me to set the ...
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Force webcam to use MJPG as default only
i have image issue with 1224:2a25 Jieli camera. Camera is working in browser but not in VLC or OpenAuto. I figured out, that YUYV 1280x720 is not working resolution...but this is unfortunately used as ...
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FFMPEG rtmp "connecting" instead of "listening"
I want to accept an RTMP stream (from OBS) and send the video feed to a v4l2 loopback device, similar to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31484616/linux-ffmpeg-get-rtmp-stream-and-convert-into-a-...
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Deactivate noise-cancelling of Logitech C270
For a little project of mine, I would like to leverage an old Logitech C270 to record sound.
Unfortunately the built-in microphone features noise-cancelling, which renders it pretty useless for my ...
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what's the current way to stream a /dev/video to internet by ffmpeg after the ffserver is deprecated?
I'm studying how to live stream my webcam which would be recognized as /dev/video0 in linux to the internet. I'm trying ffmpeg, now get the following method works:
1.create a ffserver.conf file
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Integrated webcam not working - Displayed as Unknown USB video device on Device Manager
Anyone have any ideas on this issue?
My integrated webcam is displaying under "Unknown" as a USB device. It's not working on Skype or Zoom. Confirmed it's working on Windows 10 camera app. A ...
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Can LAN affect internet speed in case of using android camera as a webcam?
I would like to use the camera of my android phone as a webcam for my PC to make international video calls and share screens. I know that LAN is completely different from WAN but I'll connect the ...
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Record webcam like a dashcam [duplicate]
I would like to use FFmpeg to record the last 5 hours from the webcam to file like a dashcam.
Creating a new file every 5 hour is acceptable, overwriting the current file is too.
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Webcam - brightness adjustment does not work on windows camera or MS teams but works with webex, zoom
I have got a webcam (Tukzer TZ-C01-WHT), but my video was very dark (Windows 10). So, I emailed the Tukzer support and they told me how to user brightness on windows camera app/zoom. They told that by ...
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ffmpeg mjpeg pixel_format does not work with avfoundation
I'm capturing a video using a webcam that supports streaming its output as mjpeg. So far I've been doing it successfully on linux as follows:
ffmpeg -pixel_format mjpeg -i /dev/video4 ...
However, I'...
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Why did my UPS works as expected if unplugged from wall, but seemingly failed when an actual power disruption occurred?
I've got several UPS units protecting my various devices. Today the room lights flickered for a minute, I heard a UPS "clicking" sound, and got notifications from my Mac that a few of my ...
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Mac webcam as a device file
I'm messing around with wine on Mac, and it went pretty well for a while (I even helped someone port his app to Mac). Recently, I started playing with webcam, and this time I run into a problem. /dev ...
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Windows 10 internal webcam doesn't start
I have a webcam but recently it doesn't work. It returns:
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But I have the control lamp is lightened.
I have tried to uninstall the device in the device manager. But first I ...
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Changing Webcam identifiers
Recently I tried testing whether my webcam is accessible to the browser(used google chrome) properly or not. I gave the camera access to a website (https://webcamtests.com/) for the test and it was ...
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How can I run multiple USB webcams on Linux?
I wanted to build a system that can take live video data from four different webcams to run object detection over, but each time I try running a second webcam, the first shuts down.
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What happened to Devices -> Cameras in Windows 10 settings?
My USB webcam is too dark and I wanted to change its settings without installing any closed source software from the manufacturer.
I'm trying to find information about Win 10 settings that could ...
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External webcam automatically turned on when laptop was on sleep mode
I have a Dell Vostro 3568 and it runs on Windows 10. Something strange happened today. I exactly remember to put my laptop on sleep mode with an external webcam, have LED lights, connected to it. In ...
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Adding ffmpeg filter to motion image-output
I want to be able to apply keystone correction to a webcam stream. The raw image-stream contains a rectangular background and I am using a rectangular overlay, which the user drags the corners to ...
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Send webcam output over Internet
So I will not be home for a few days and would like to see what's happening at my front door.
I have a laptop with the latest xubuntu on it and with a decent quality webcam wich is what i would use to ...
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How to have a side-channel stream while writing video recording to a file
I'm trying to come up with a way to use ffmpeg to write a webcam recording to a file, while sending some frames to a python process for online processing. The important parts are -
The write of the ...
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Get device info for dev file
This is a very simply question. I have 3 potential camera devices in /dev/: video0, video1 and video2. I need to find out which one is my actual webcam and which one is a loopback device. I couldn't ...
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Why does google chrome completely disallow microphone access in a server?
I am hosting a html file using a server hosted from a python script. The html file includes some sort of speech recognition, so it needs the microphone.
I open the html file using the google chrome ...
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How do I figure out whether this is a bug or how do I debug what is trying to access my webcam?
Similar question, which has a different question (since my AV doesn't even know the process ID or similar): Antivirus warns about processes trying to access my webcam
I am using ESET Internet Security ...
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Is the IR camera on modern high end laptops used for anything else other than facial recognition?
Some modern premium laptops come with an IR camera along with the normal integrated camera, which is used by Windows Hello for facial recognition. Is this feature used by anything else? For example, I'...
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Can you connect 12 USB cameras to a single computer?
For a project that I am working on, I need access to may cameras that monitor certain gauges on tanks. The specifics of the project are relatively confidential, but in essence, each tank has 2 gauges ...
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Chrome webcam access issue
Whenever I try to access my webcam in chrome. Every time, it turns on for 2 seconds and then turn off automatically.
I tried all different solutions like clearing caches and cookies, toggling webcam ...
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Error with USB WebCamera Mic
I have a USB web-cam which has an in-built microphone. It has no separate jack-like plug for microphone. And it's showing in the device-manager and it is the default microphone. When I get into its ...
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change/remove the "virtual box" label of the integrated camera (while using host webcam in virtual box)
I am using virtualbox to run linux mint 20.01 and I am using the host webcam in it. I want to change the name of the webcam which by default has the prefix "virtual box"
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USB mic inbuilt with WebCam not giving any inputs
I have a Web-Cam with a microphone in-built and the company claims that, it is 'plug-to-play' (Don't need any driver installation - according to me). When I plug the web-cam, it works well, and also ...
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Protect IP webcam's RTSP port 554 with firewall?
I have a IP web camera and I'm opening the port to the internet through the WIFI router. It's useful that I can check the live streaming outdoors on phones or laptops. But there's one thing I'm ...
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How to fix low webcam fps in VMware Fusion?
I’m using the webcam passthrough feature in VMware Fusion. However, the frame rate is very low. How do I fix this? Or could this problem perhaps be solved using an external webcam?
Problem:
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Integrated webcam suddenly stopped working
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T580 whose integrated webcam suddenly stopped working, i.e. this image pops up whenever I try to use it in any application (like Camera, Skype, Zoom etc.). Also the green LED ...
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Webcam driver doesn't work
Trying to install a Logitech C270 onto a system running Win10 Enterprise. It's supposed to be plug-and-play; it's not acting that way. Runs the generic MS driver instead of anything specific; and ...
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QuickCam Messenger Win10 compatibility 64bit driver
I have an old QuickCam Messenger, which gets detected from win10 but not fully recognized, thus the cam is not usable.
Under the vendor sitehttps://support.logi.com/hc/de-at/articles/360024701614--...
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How to use ffmpeg to save video and audio streams to a file in Linux
My computer is Linux OS, and now I have a USB HDMI capture card, the chip is ms2109, it is compatible with UVC, you can think of it as a webcam.
I tried to use obs to do this work, but obs does not ...
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Motion running extremely slowly with buildroot
I was using motioneyeos for a project with a raspberry pi zero w and was easily getting 20fps@1280x720 so I decided to take a quick swipe at buildroot to cut out the features I don't need (I only need ...
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How to diagnose USB "stability" issues?
I need some guidance / pointers on how to diagnose a very odd, intermittent issue I'm experiencing with my system. This is a long one, so let's get stuck in.
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I'm using a Windows 10 PC, on ...
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