Two webcams, one PC

Silenced · 3 Dec 2010 at 16:17

Hi all,

I have Windows XP on a PC I wish to have two Trust Spotlight Pro webcams on (They use no drivers), but when I try and load two it just tells me that I couldn't load driver.

Anyway I can get both to load, or do I need to upgrade to another OS?

Silenced · 3 Dec 2010 at 16:39

Well, basically I'm trying to use them to upload via FTP every like 7 seconds, I have the program to do this although I can't view more than one at a time.

Silenced · 3 Dec 2010 at 16:57

TinCam. It knows the webcam is there, just when I try and show up both, one says it 'Could not load Webcam Driver'

Silenced · 3 Dec 2010 at 20:27

Hm, I have a super old PS2 Eyetoy I could test it with to see if both work.

Also, I could try a VM, but I don't think it'd be the best idea as the PC only has 1GB of RAM and I believe is single core...

Any idea if I install W7 or something else onto it I can view both?

Silenced · 3 Dec 2010 at 20:46

d_brennen said:
Probably not. I actually have two of those spotlight webcams at work - If i'm not too busy on Monday I'll have a play

I'd try a different webcam though, one with a separate driver, just to see. IP cams are really what you need tbh

Thanks.

And yeah I'll have a go. And I didn't get an IP cam purely because of the high costs

Silenced · 7 Dec 2010 at 15:21

It seems I can't find a way to do this. So, I will ask another question, does anyone know of a program that will cycle through the different cameras to take pictures from them and upload?

Like, Cam1, snap, upload, wait 7 seconds, Cam2, snap, upload and so on?

Silenced · 7 Dec 2010 at 18:39

Phoenix26 said:
I'd give yawcam a shot -> http://www.yawcam.com/

Should be able to run two instances and upload to ftp automatically.

If you mean open it twice, I don't think it'll work. For some reason it says Could not load Driver or just gives black screen. Well, this is for other programs, I'l give this a shot though

Silenced · 8 Dec 2010 at 15:25

Yeah, thats the exact issue, £80 per one is expensive, and I need 3 all together :/ Although the fact their wi-fi ready is somewhat interesting. How is their picture? I'm using these to show birds online.