Microsoft LifeCam Support Coming for Windows Vista

re: Microsoft LifeCam Support Coming for Windows Vista

ravindra106 — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:55:37 GMT

its great to see that microsoft is working on that.anyways thanx for the info "nick".very informative

re: Microsoft LifeCam Support Coming for Windows Vista

gymnast46 — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 20:37:00 GMT

Hopefully someone will be able to shed some light on my audio problem. I successfully installed the software on my home PC (XP) and my daughter's (Vista - got the update from Microsoft). My father doesn't have a webcam but installed WLM on his PC. My sister installed a Logitech webcam on her laptop. In all cases, we can share video (except obviously my father but he can view us) but no one can get the audio to work so we wind up having to type our conversations.

The audio mike works fine when tested but the other party can't hear us. there must be something very basic that I'm missing.

Unrelated: On my XP machine I was able to access a "dashboard" and make a short video. On the VISTA machine, it's nowhere to be found. In fact I can't find any program related to the LifeCam VX-2000. Despite that, I can share my webcam with another party.

Could someone give me some guidance?

re: Microsoft LifeCam Support Coming for Windows Vista

Painholder — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:15:22 GMT

Hmmmm I cant believe Microsoft doesn't have a driver, when they specifically state on the package this product is compatible with Windows Vista. Am I missing something or is this billion

dollar company giving me a line of *%##@#$

Whats wrong with this picture?

Screwed

re: Microsoft LifeCam Support Coming for Windows Vista

pcw — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:58:21 GMT

P.S. I'm not quite the person I used to be (medical reasons) so I can't always make sense of things. But I still have the ability to work well with pc's and macs. Can someone please clarify for me: Is there now a webcam that will work with Windows Vista?

re: Microsoft LifeCam Support Coming for Windows Vista

pcw — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:53:40 GMT

Hi Nick... you bet your sweet bippy I'm jealous. Can't wait to buy a new webcam that works with vista home premium.

re: Microsoft LifeCam Support Coming for Windows Vista

Parm — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:01:31 GMT

Nick, may I ask if there are any plans to support the Live Vision Camera (for the Xbox 360) in the LifeCam software?

I have the Live Vision Camera and on Windows Vista it only appears to be functional on Live Messenger. It would be great if this camera was supported by LifeCam so we could use it to do other stuff too.

Kind Regards,

Parm

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blakelyg — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:03:29 GMT

Thanks for the info Nick. I have the full blown retail version of Vista (Ultimate) with a Gateway machine lots of memory and I have had no luck with the MS provided drivers/software and have even had tech support say there are no drivers (Have it in email even) for the VX6000? (Getting an error message that the syntax of the inf is invalid and driver will not install)

Certainly interesting that you seem to have it working for several months now.

re: Microsoft LifeCam Support Coming for Windows Vista

Michael_Moor — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:04:02 GMT

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re: Microsoft LifeCam Support Coming for Windows Vista

Kristian — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:45:56 GMT

A little How to install LifeCam on Vista http://programdotnet.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!C9A07774A5D6BF09!189.entry

re: Microsoft LifeCam Support Coming for Windows Vista

garyb — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:29:49 GMT

i have been using my lifecam 6000 for quite a while now. i had video right out of the box. the only issue i had was audio. i am running vista build 5600, and creative SB audigy card. i had to go into the sound settings where i found that the lifecam sound source was already listed as: (lifecamusb20). once i set that as the sound source i was able to use lifecam video and audio. sound quality was excellent.

re: Microsoft LifeCam Support Coming for Windows Vista

Nick White — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 20:20:05 GMT

Hey habnix: as I've said above, you can expect Lifecam drivers to be made available around Windows Vista's general retail availability date.

re: Microsoft LifeCam Support Coming for Windows Vista

habnix — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:42:34 GMT

I think this is incredibly embarrassing!

Does Microsoft think early adopters or business users do not need webcams?

Vista has released for businesses and through rtm almost a month ago, and i am not the only IT Pro who has switched most (in my case actually all!) productive systems to windows vista, except for a dual boot partition with xp on one machine.

I used a combination of the VX6000 and NX6000 to stay in touch with my wife and 2 year old son during extended business trips. The VX6000 attached at home to the living room PC running Windows XP Media Center Edition. The notebook running XP Pro. Now of course that I upgraded both the Media Center PC and the notebook to Windows Vista, I have not only two unusable expensive webcams, but also, which makes me even more angry, cannot communicate with my family.

Any other Vista enthusiasts sharing my frustration?

re: Microsoft LifeCam Support Coming for Windows Vista

marshall — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:00:58 GMT

Than that's just plain bad...... Even the most complained logitech made a vista version driver for their webcams and is available now.....

Just bad. And I now regret throwing my logitech cam away for the lifecam, hoping that it will have vista drivers first......

Ouch.....

re: Microsoft LifeCam Support Coming for Windows Vista

Nick White — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:09:47 GMT

Hey marshall -- I understand that drivers for the Lifecams will be made available around retail availability of Windows Vista.

re: Microsoft LifeCam Support Coming for Windows Vista

marshall — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 03:22:15 GMT

Just browsing to the MS Hardware Vista site and I am worried. It is saying that software for Lifecam will only be available in January, and it is probably going to be beta. Will we have some way to run our lifecam before that? I have access to RTM via technet but half of my stuff aren't currently supported in one way or another.......

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/vista/vistasupport.mspx