Webcam instant with AIM

I have purchased the webCam instant and installed it. I am having problems showing live video on AIM. It shows a gray screen and my buddies cannot see us. What can I do to use this with AIM. This is the only reason I purchased it and cannot get it to work. Pleae advise

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WebCam Instant - Horrible framerate

Hi
I just had a look around the forums and noticed there are quite a few threads regarding problems with the WebCam Instant model. Anyhow, my problem isn't as severe as most of those, for the moment anyway..
I'm experiencing some really horrible framerates, ranging from 9 to 20, primarily in the lower region. This goes for both the WebCam center and MSN Messenger. On top of that, the capturing seems to freeze every 5 or 6 seconds, which lasts about half a second. As you can imagine, this is getting quite frustrating. I just reformatted my harddri've and reinstalled windows, hoping that would fix my problem, but alas - it did not.
I was hoping this new camera would provide a significant upgrade to my webcam photographing quality and video shooting, but my old cam which I bought for barely a dime and a nickle honestly performed way better than my WebCam Instant is currently doing.
Does anyone know what the problem might be? Help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi,
I bougth the creative webcam Instant with a small microphone package yesterday. The microphone is very great. Its sound is very clear and loud, but my friend told that she heard very loud noise. It causes from the microphone because when I removed it, the noise was disappear. Moreover, like erique87's case, the framerate of the webcam is horrible. I used it with yahoo messenger. It is not freeze, but it is not smooth. Its framerate from yahoo is about 0.7 fps.
My friend's webcam is logitech. It shows higher framerate about 1.8 fps.
I would like to know that how I can adjust the framerate. I don't need the higher quality. I prefer smooth picture. I change the quality in the yahoo messenger option to the fast speed, but nothing changed. Please let me know. [email protected]
Thanks.

Big problems with creative webcam instant (sample included)

yesterday i purchased a creative webcam instant, and i am dissapointed in the quality of the video.
The frame rate is great, however there is artifacting and the video jumps around all over the place.
I have never had a problem with any other imaging devices before, so i cant see why this is happening with this camera.
This happens with the creative webcam center, and also in any other application that uses video from the camera (such as any instant messenger program)
Here is a .88 meg file to show you how the video jumps around.
http://steven.moondrummer.com/misc/space/4328.avi

Blah! The WEBCamInstant is "cheap" & nasty & for beach light only.
1. You have a USB-2?
-> calgarysteven ... 0-24-2004 09:47 PM
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Wireless connection with AIM and ichat

Why will instant messaging not work with my netgear wireless? My son told me that I have to use instant messaging (AIM) in order to video chat.
*I am new to using a MAC

Hi,
Some modems and routers do sometimes have presets that you can use in firewalls and sometimes port settings.
My Netgear only lists AIM on TCP on port 5190 which is not the same as all the iChat ports (29 ports with some needing TCP and UDP protocols)
In the case of Netgears there are other things that can effect the smooth operation of iChat.
Firstly turn the Netgear firewall Off. (you can turn it on Later with iChat ports if you wish).
Next check the UPnP page has the UPnP Enabled.
Then GO to the WAN page.
If the Netgear is also your modem as well as a router there are two things that I find are needed.
First of these is the DOS or SPI feature. By default it is on. Without any controls or setting this feature decides what is unsuitable traffic to your LAN and prevents data on the port it happens on getting through.
iChat can trigger this with the amount and speed other people can send stuff to you.
So this needs to be Disabled. It needs to be Checked to Disable.
The second is the "Respond to Ping on Internet WAN Port"
part of iChat's data is seen as a Ping and I find that allowing this response helps This needs to be Checked to Allow.
So,
UPnP
No SPI or DOS acctive.
Respond to WAN Pings.
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Messages Text Invitation Alert does not seem to work with AIM account

Back in the days of iChat - I had a Text Invitation Alert setup to play a sound and repeat that sound. This way if I was away from my computer, it would keep making noise until I accepted/declined the IM.
Now I upgraded to Mountain Lion and am using Messages which replaced iChat. The only account that I have is an AOL Instant Messager (AIM) account. During the upgrade, it kept my setting of a Text Invitation Alert set to repeat.
A couple of things that I notice - when I closed an iChat conversation, that was the end of the conversation and a message from someone after that point was treated like a new Text Invitation. With Messages - I actually have to 'delete the conversation' as all of my conversations are in the same application window.
Here is where the problem comes in... having NO active conversations (i.e. nothing is shown on the right side of the Messages window except 'No Conversations') and having the application closed but my status set to Available - it does NOT play the Alert sound, only bounces the dock icon once.
Having NO active conversations but the application running in the background it performs as expected.
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Trouble with AIM and IChat! Cannot connect to IChat, and AIM keeps crashing

I just got my Macbook, and installed AIM. However, it often says "AIM shut down unexpectedly." Does anyone know how to fix this problem?
Also, I want to use IChat, but i try to connect, and I can for a few seconds, and then it says "Connection with AIM lost." I'd appreciate any suggestions or advice!

I used to have the same AIM problem. Have you tried Adium instead? If you haven't heard of it, it's an instant messaging program that uses your AIM account but is specifically designed for OS X. It looks nicer too.
Hope it helps!
www.adiumx.com/

My ichat is not working with AIM

I bought my macbook in march and have never been able to get my aim to work. It logs in but none of my contacts are ever shown as anything but offline and grayed out. I did check into my aim from my AOL email and it's the same way on there. I have searched and searched online for any answers as to why this is and can't find anything that works. I've tried switching the port to 443 instead of 5190, my privacy level is allow everyone, I've logged in/out and nothing is working. I don't know if this affects anything but my aim/aol account is also my apple id because I don't have a moblieme account?
Any suggestions would be amazing!
Thanks

Hi,
Welcome to the  Discussions
You can get an AIM valid name without having an AOL email account and it would generally be just a Screen Name with no @AOL.com suffix.
That is not to say that you cannot enable AIM with your AOL email account.
Going back some years these email names could come form Netscape, CompuServe and various others that AOL bought up.
Generally though whichever Email type you had you had to Enable Instant Messaging on the account to use it with AIM.
Have you done this ?
The port change in iChat 5 requires that you press the Enter key to "set" the port change.
Also are you using a Mac User Admin Account on your Mac or a Managed one with Parental Controls turned On ?
generally we need to know if you have ever used the same iChat info in any Mac User Account that has had or has Parental Controls turned ON.
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Webcam Instant - Error code 10 on windows xp - please help

can anyone help me - i have bought thecreative webcam instant and am using windows XP. in my imaging devices i right click on creative webcam and it comes up with Device not detected Error code 10.i have uninstalled and installed about 5 times and still it comes up with this message. the software is on the computer but it says no camera device detected. the driver is on the computer though.can anyone help me to get it working. it is pluged into my usb port and windows xp states that it detects it but it may not work properly........... Thanks any novice help will help me thanks Ian - [email protected]

P4: icuuc40.dll P5: 4.0.0.3207
You're having trouble with an Apple Application Support program file. (Apple Application Support is where program files that are used by more than one Apple program are kept.) Some XP systems aren't liking the 4.0.0.3207 version of the dll that is included in Apple Application Support 1.5.0.
The workaround at the moment on XP is to either:
(1) Swap out your existing version of the dll for the 4.0.0.3205 version that was included in Apple Application Support 1.4.1.
(2) Alternatively, you could download the icu4c-401-Win32-msvc8.zip from:
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... extract the 4.0.1.0 version of the dll from that package, and replace your current 4.0.0.3207 with that.
The location of the existing file on your system is at:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Apple Application Support\icuuc40.dll
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Problems with AIM on new iMac G5

Hi--Sorry if this is in the wrong place. I'm having an extremely frustrating problem with AIM, which I recently downloaded on my son's new iMac G5 (TIger 10.4.3). I've tried posting this question in the iChat forum, but since he doesn't use iChat and never has it open on his computer, I don't think it's an interference problem with iChat.
AIM quits unexpectedly and repeatedly, often several times in just a few minutes. I've tried: throwing out all preferences, trashing and reinstalling AIM, and using AIM from a different user account on the machine. AIM worked FINE on my computer--an older G4 also running OS Tiger, so I can't imagine that this is an operating system conflict.
A friend suggested that it might be a problem with the wireless network. The new G5 is connected wirelessly via Airport to my G4. Has anyone heard of AIM not running well on a wireless machine? Could something (an outside frequency perhaps?) be interfering with the wireless connection, causing AIM to quit?
Needless to say, AOL's tech support is completely unhelpful. Says they don't provide tech support for AIM.
If anyone can help, or knows someplace I can find AIM tech support, I would GREATLY appreciate it! THanks!

The best advice I can offer is to dump the AOL AIM client altogether, and use a third-party instant messaging application that supports AIM.
For example, Adium X is a full featured IM client that supports AIM as well as many other IM protocols.
It's very stable on Tiger, and it's light years ahead of the official AIM client from AOL.
Try it out!

Problems with AIM on Blackberry 7100i...Please help

I got the 7100i off ebay with AIM preinstalled...it didn't work. I then called nextel and they told me that there was a compatibility issue with the new AIM and this phone...so the guy gave me a web address to download the aim from. It wasn't an address from AIM.com or Blackberry.com...and of course I didn't write it down...and now Nextel tells me that they have never had issues with AIM and this phone. I can download and install AIM on the phone but when I put in my correct (and yes it is the correct one because I also tried putting the same password in my computer's AIM) it tells me that "service not enablesd for this handheld" but since it's third party software...Nextel can't help me. Anyone know how to fix this?

The best advice I can offer is to dump the AOL AIM client altogether, and use a third-party instant messaging application that supports AIM.
For example, Adium X is a full featured IM client that supports AIM as well as many other IM protocols.
It's very stable on Tiger, and it's light years ahead of the official AIM client from AOL.
Try it out!

WebCam Vista Pro OR WebCam Instant

Hi there,
I want to purchase one good webcam. Please suggest me which one is the best among these two.
1. Webcam Vista Pro or
2. Webcam Instant
My main priority is that the webcam should deli'ver good pics at max resolution and work good at low light.
thanks and regards.
Passion80p

i'll reply since you will most likely get lots of views and NO reply -
i don't know about your internet issue. theres likely some sort of conflict between the drivers and every kind of application used to display web pages. hopefully some person @ creative or some moderator on this forum can help out more with this? anyway, i found a page with the drivers for your camera (model VF0330).
http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/download.asp?searchString=WCVI_0330_PCDrv_US___0.e xe
hope that helped a little bit.

Webcam instant failure to install

Hi guys, have just bought the webcam instant which comes with game star games, however neither of the 2 disc start up, each one logging a fatal error message, so i cant even install the software.
Help please!
Paul

Hi Paul,
I have experienced similar problems but have narrowed it down to the next to last level before the BIOS.
In my opinion, the installation problem is due to the last Windows Update.
I can plug and play the webcam and use it in MSN Messenger but Windows does not retain the hardware installation and then everything starts crashing after I reboot. My only option is to perform a System Restore in Fail Safe mode to get my system stable again.
I would wait until Microsoft fixes that which needs fixing and try to install it again after the next Windows Update (probably due in about two weeks from now (2nd Dec 2005))

Webcam problems with ONE contact

Im not sure if this is this is the right place for this post but im running out of options and i am getting desperate!
Here is the situation:
I have a mac book pro laptop running os x 10.5.6.
I am trying to use my webcam and chat with a contact, the webcam is set up and works with all other contacts accept this one contact.
On My macbook pro - I have used IChat with AIM to try to video conference with the contact, and i get an error message, saying that the contact is in another conference (which they say they arent). On their side they say that the conference was declined from my side.
I Also experience a similar problem on my pc using msn messenger... I can view my contacts webcam, and all other contacts webcams, and I can send my webcam to all other contacts... but the one contact, the screen goes white, and the connection times out?
I am assuming this would be a problem with the one contacts router or firewall? but what could it be? they say the firewall is disabled ...
But if it were a connection problem would I be able to view the contacts webcam?

Hi,
This could be several issues.
If it is Mac to Mac then it is likely to be a feature of their Modem such as Denial of Service or Internet Ping blocking (not responding to Internet Pings).
If it is Mac to PC then the Windows firewall should be On but the app allowed as an Exception Written for XP Service Pack 2 but applies to Vista as well.
There is a chance that it is about whether they have opened the ports iChat (or their App) needs in their router or modem. Most only have port up to 1024 open.
the device(s) can act as a hardware firewall if they are not open.
Ports to cover iChat 3 and 4
AIM uses port 1024-5000 in addition to Logging on on port 5190
8:28 PM Thursday; January 15, 2009

Cleaning webcam instant

Hi I've got a webcam instant and it's really nice but I found out it was dirty and I'm not sure how to clean it... :smileyindifferent:
Could somebody tell me what I should use?
I tried to clean it with some stuff and now I can't even see my eyes! Only the colors
Come on!!! Isn't there any moderator here who can help me?
I wont be very pleased with no answer...
Please answer me as quick as possible!
Message Edited by Tomy on 05-09-2005 11:41 PM

Hi Batlasi,
If memory serves me well, the Webcam Instant supports up to Windows XP. You may verify by referring to this link as well.
Regards,
Colin-CL

Webcam instant driver * link *

After searching all over for it without any success ( specially here on creative website )
I came across a link that worked
and now my cam is finally installed and running
if anyone needs the webcam INSTANT driver , here is the link :
http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/SCA...729-WHQL.shtml
Have a great day !

Just learned that the driver on the CD that came with the Webcam Instant works with Vista Ultimate SP1 x86. Just don't try to install it by using the install program on the CD. Also, you will have to have the Creative Cam Detector version 1.71.02 for XP to get full functionality. I had a copy of this from my XP partition. (found in the Cache directory under Creative in the Program Files directory)

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