Sony HandyCam As A Webcam?

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  • Rayj
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    Junior Member
    • Feb 2006
    • 4

    Sony HandyCam As A Webcam?

    If this is not the correct forum, I would appreciate where I could get help with something like this.

    Ok, here's the situation. I have a Logitech low resolution camera that works fine with Skype and other webcam apps. But I have this HD Sony Handycam laying around doing nothing most of the time so I figured let's try to use this baby as a webcam.

    I am using Ubuntu 12.04. I am connecting the composite out of the camera to a Video Capture/Grabber, a Sabrent USB-AVCPT device. So far so good.

    I can see activity when I unplug the device from the computer such as /dev/video0 disappearing when I unplug the device. So I know the grabber is detected. I can get this config to work with Yahoo Messenger but it will not work with Skype. Any ideas how I can trouble shoot this?

    My goal is to get the camera to work with WebRTC. (check out appear.in for some info).

    Thanks,

    Ray
  • aimeryal
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    Junior Member
    • Mar 2014
    • 2

    #2
    I think there is a problem in your usb port, try changing the port, may it help.

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