Videoconferencing and Video Capture Tools

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Webcam Diagnostics

Webcam Diagnostics is a simple assistant which gathers many system and webcam-related information in a single place. It makes it easy to identify driver installation problems or USB issues: red circles will signal serious issues and yellow triangles will signal minor issues. Right-click a reported issue to access the context menu and click the Fix menu (if available) so that the program attempts to fix the issue or shows you a possible way to fix it.

Webcam Diagnostics can report USB issues like overcurrent or bandwidth shortage. It can also tell whether your system is correctly configured to handle a webcam (e.g. processor fast enough, recent DirectX runtime, optimal display color depth, etc.)

If you are ensure if your system meets the requirements I recommended you to run the wizard before installing your webcam.

I plan to enhanced the program over the time to bring additional features and to improve the analysis. Your suggestions and feedback are very welcome. Please note though that the program may not be able to identify buggy drivers.

AMCap

AMCap is a small yet fully functional video capture and preview application compatible with Microsoft DirectShow (formerly ActiveMovie, hence the name). It is based on the sample AMCap source code from the Microsoft DirectX 9 SDK. This custom version adds many new features including:

DV camcorder playback and recording
improved MPEG-2 playback and recording
improved analog TV tuner support
still capture in BMP, JPEG and PNG formats
optional real-time compression (Windows Media or any installed CODECs)
remember video input, standard, size and many other options from previous session
full screen mode
support for multi-monitor and deinterlacing (using VMR9)
caption bar and menu on/off
always on top feature

The VMR9 option enables support for the multi-monitor, zooming, aspect ratio and deinterlacing features (Microsoft DirectX 9.0 required.)

The registered version includes a new stillcap application that allows you to easily make still captures from a script, an application, a command prompt, the task scheduler, etc.

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Motion Detection

Motion Detection is an experimental application that saves still pictures and/or makes .avi files when anything in motion is detected in front of the selected webcam. The pictures and the frames of the movies are timestamped.

New features include a mask, picture flip/mirror and an "always on top" option.

See the included readme.txt file for important release notes.

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Windows Movie Maker Installer for Windows 7

Microsoft Windows Movie Maker is a video editing application by Microsoft available to Windows XP and Windows Vista users. Windows Movie Maker Installer allows you to install Microsoft Windows Movie Maker 6.0 in a fresh installation of Windows 7. You can then enjoy again DV export and a true timeline not found in the new Windows Live Movie Maker. Both versions of Movie Maker may be installed side-by-side though if needed. This installer supports both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms.

Windows Movie Maker Installer for Windows 7 Screen Shot

Instant Translator

Instant Translator is a new experimental activity for MSN Messenger 6.0 (and later) and Windows Live Messenger which allows on-the-fly translation of all incoming messages. This may come handy when you have to chat with people on the Internet who don't speak the same language(s) as you do. You won't have to copy and paste text from a computer-aided translation website anymore.

This applet is based on the Messenger Activity SDK and uses Yahoo!'s Babel Fish Translation website for the translation.

The installer simply copies a small configuration file to the Messenger folder. To start the activity, close any currently opened conversation and reopen it to take changes into effect, then click the Actions > Start Instant Translator menu.

Note: since this activity uses an ActiveX control (Microsoft XMLHTTP) and requires access to an external website (Yahoo) you may receive a security warning upon the reception of the first message. See the readme.txt file in the zip for more information.

ICQ Fixer

ICQ Fixer will patch the registry with the correct settings so that you can place a NetMeeting call to someone else using ICQ. Actually ICQ says something like "you have called your own computer". This is due to incorrect settings in the registry for ICQ. This patch should correct this. The latest version also adds Network Address Translation (NAT) support for Windows NetMeeting.

Note: you can learn more about the NetMeeting and ICQ programs by visiting the Microsoft NetMeeting and the Mirabilis ICQ Web sites. For additional information and workarounds please visit The Windows NetMeeting Zone by Robert Scoble and MeetingByWire by Brian Sullivan.

Winnov Remote Zoom

This file will install the Winnov Videum Zoom applet on your system so that you can remotely control the digital zoom of a Winnov Videum AV (or VO) video capture card when you are in a videoconference with someone who owns one. This installation is only useful to people who don't have such a card in their system since this applet is part of the Winnov driver installation. The components in this installation come from V2.9.1 of the Winnov drivers.

Note: all the files in this package were developed by Winnov. I only created this installation file. This was only tested in Windows 2000 professional.

Reflector Database Manager

Reflector Database Manager allows you to manage in a simple way a list of reflectors for use by White Pine Enhanced CU-SeeMe. You can easily add, update or delete reflectors from a list file. You can maintain different lists and regenerate an updated nickname.ini file for use by Enhanced CU-SeeMe. You can also drag a reflector from the list and drop it on your desktop to create a quick link.