Can't capture picture

[patrikjohansson]

Hi,
I have just installed a webcam and it works nice with PC-VCR but when I use any other software to capture pictures from my webcam the pictures looks very noisy and have a kind of blue filter. What might be wrong and what should I do about it?

Here are two captures with different softwares

Thanks in advance,
/Patrik

[Brian Ellis]

Patrik,

For a webcam, your PC-VCR results are even impressive

I don't know ConquerCam: you say "any other". What other ones have you tried? Please also tell us more about your hardware/OS.

[patrikjohansson]

Sorry, I forgot to write that I use Matrox Marvel G450 eTV on MicroStar K7T Turbo 2 with AMD Athlon 1.45GHz ,384MB and Win XP Pro. I thought everybody knew

More info about motherboard:

http://www.msicomputer.com/product/detail_spec/product_detail.asp?model=K7T_Turbo_2&search_text=6330

My webcam is a LG LVC-M100NP and is originally bought with a Hauppauge TV-card but now it’s running with my Matrox Marvel G450 eTV using a Video In connection.

There was no info about the camera on LG’s site, although I found some info at the following address:

http://micronica.com.au/catalog/camera/m100/index.htm

Btw. all drivers are updated.

The softwares that don’t work are:
ConquerCam
SupervisionCam
Webcam32
WinCastTV
WebCam Toolkit

I also tried AVI_IO and it worked (in overlay display not preview), but you can’t run a webcam with that

As Video Device I use a VfW driver: Matrox VidCap Driver (version 2.0.0.0). All the tried softwares work only with RGB Video Format, when using YUY2 I only get a green screen.

Any ideas?

/Patrik