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August 28, 2007 at 10:25 am |
Hi. Michael.
So it flawlessly plays video. Good to know.
But how about recording video with sound from the onboard webcam and microphone?
August 28, 2007 at 11:34 am |
The Webcam Studio software that comes with the SH6 only records video, not audio. I can put up a sample video from it tonight if you would like to see it.
August 28, 2007 at 12:44 pm |
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August 28, 2007 at 2:06 pm |
Yes please, post a sample.
In the settings for the Webcam Studio, did you ensure that audio device selected is the internal microphone? I’d imagine it would be by default if audio input is indeed supported by that software. But it may be worthwhile to check.
If it turns out audio in is not supported, I think there are 3 solutions, all of which could work with either the built-in or externally connected microphone.
1. The video from the Webcam Studio can be merged with audio track recorded in any number of audio recorders in an editing software. Abode Premiere is a powerful package but there are others which will do that simple job just as well. Some come bundled with, say, a standalone webcam. My Logitech came with something from Pinnacle. This solution is not convenient but it will work.
2. A third party software such as those video editors or another webcam software have the ability to address PC devices such as cameras and sound cards as long as it’s registered in Windows Device Manager, ie. simply there are drivers installed. So can be an alternative to the Webcam Studio that came witth the SH6.
3. Wait until the Webcam Studio is updated to address this glaring deficiency.
August 28, 2007 at 2:32 pm |
There is no setting of any kind for audio in Webcam Studio.
Probably the easiest way to meet your request would be to separately upload a Webcam video file and then an audio file created using the built-in microphone and you can just play them both. I should be able to use Audacity to create the audio.
Anyway I’ll try to at least upload the Webcam video tonight from my hotel room.
Michael
August 28, 2007 at 7:32 pm |
No setting for any kind of audio? Well, then I would give the developer of that webcam crapware an F- mark for omission of such a basic feature.
But please go ahead and upload a video. I would be interested in seeing the picture quality from the camera notwithstanding the deficient bundled software.
August 28, 2007 at 7:50 pm |
Richard,
Looks like I can’t easily upload a Webcam Studio video afterall. I recorded a 14 second video with it and it took up 111MB of disk space! If you’re really anxious to experience the Webcam and microphone quality then send me email and we can set up a Skype video call.
Michael
August 28, 2007 at 11:32 pm |
Michael, a subjective report of the picture quality will suffice.
-What resolution was the capture?
-What was the framerate? (May be as easy to obtain by getting the Properties of the video file that was created.)
-What is the file extension – AVI?
111 MB for 14 seconds sounds to me like it’s uncompressed video. In fact, now that I think about it, I think it is. That 600 MHz processor can’t possibly do real time compression using any kind of codec to VGA+ res at 15+ fps.
August 29, 2007 at 6:18 am |
The quality of the Webcam video is very good. The properties of the Webcam Suite video itself are as follows: 14 sec .AVI file, 317X265, data rate 6265K, 30 frames per second.
August 29, 2007 at 8:25 am |
Yeah, that definately sounds as if it’s uncompressed video. It is possible to convert to a compressed format such as MPEG4, DivX, WMV, QT, Flash, etc. but it will take a long time with Vista running on such a processor. And that compression would have to happen after or along with sound being incorporated.
All in all, it doesn’t seem to be a convenient solution for, say, bloggers to record and upload videos. It may be okay for video conferencing but there again the conferencing software would have to do some kind of compression too because no way 6.265 Mbps (or even half that at 15 fps) will upload in real time.
So now we have more insight.
Thanks for investigating Michael.