My question now is, how do you get the LEDs to light up? Neither QVidCap or Stimon had controls for this. AmCap, Windows Live, Dorgem, and all the rest work fine, basically though the standard windows video cam drivers. I uninstalled the software that came on the CD. The displayed image is striated with black vertical lines every 5 pixels or so. The problem with QVidCap is that it doesn't work very well.

Stimon doesn't seem to do much and it's not mentioned in the little instruction sheet included in the package. There are problems with both of these programs. The CD contains two applications, a Chinese version of Stimon.exe which is an old Win9x still image capture program and something called QVidCap which as its name suggests is a video capture program ala AmCap. So having the scratched disk may not be much of a loss. However the software that comes on the mini-CD is pretty much useless from what I can tell. Hi there, I just bought a Smart Webcam too. When plugged in, the camera is still installed as a generic USB Video device. :-) Any help would be appreciated.Īlso, I did try the Wellec Cam3820 UVC Webcam driver package, and that didn't work either. Hopefully I didn't skip any steps that would make it easy for this thing to be identified. I even tried the Alcor 3820 download that was provided here on the site, and even after uninstalling 'USB Video Device', running the app, and plugging in this camera when it asked - it still went unrecognized. I did what I felt was an exhaustive search based on the 058f and 3820 information, and the only things I found were a few foreign pages with references to the IDs, as well as one that apparently allowed some sort of 3820 download only if you signed up for VIP access or whatever. So at least that (perhaps) narrows it down. I uninstalled the device through the device manager, reinstalled it, and then ran the vicam chip identifier app that I found on here - and it said that no vicam device was installed. I plugged it in and it was identified as 'USB Video Device' as I expected, however using amcap it only serves video in mjpeg, max available resolution is 320x240, and it will only show a few frames and then freeze for a while, then a few more frames, then freeze, etc. It is interestingly named 'Smart Webcam' and is apparently distributed through 'Next Products' (There are several of these on eBay as well) I bought this little webcam at Hamvention the other day, but the driver CD that came with it is scratched beyond use.

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