last Video for Windows, where?

[AZVerdugo]

Hi all,

   I'm installing several webcams in a computer to have some images in real time of an experiment. All webcams I have are Logitech, from quickcam series. Two of them are old, and the work great with the VFW (video for windows), version 4. The third cam is new (recently bought), and It's a modern model of the Logitech quickcam series, but It doesn't work with the VFW drivers.

Does anyone know if there is a new version of those drivers? I'm working in LV 7.1

thank you in advance

Alfonso

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@AZVerdugo wrote:

Hi all,

   I'm installing several webcams in a computer to have some images in real time of an experiment. All webcams I have are Logitech, from quickcam series. Two of them are old, and the work great with the VFW (video for windows), version 4. The third cam is new (recently bought), and It's a modern model of the Logitech quickcam series, but It doesn't work with the VFW drivers.

Does anyone know if there is a new version of those drivers? I'm working in LV 7.1

thank you in advance

Alfonso

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I don't think that installing a new Video for Windows version will help because there isn't something like this. Microsoft dropped VfW support years ago. Most probably Logitech dropped support for VfW entirely in their newest drivers too. There should be a VfW to DirectDraw bridge in Windows 2000 and XP that should make DirectDraw drivers appear in VfW too albeit with some performance loss but there might be many reasons why this does not work and it is not likely that Microsoft will spend one single minute in trying to fix something in that bridge to make it work nor that Logitech will spend one engineer hour to find what might prevent their interface to work with that bridge.

So your best bet is to go with an interface that accesses the webcam through DriectDraw instead. The two that come to my mind are the IMAQ for USB camera driver from National Instruments and IVision from www.hytekautomation.com

Rolf Kalbermatter