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Webcam Mic Problem
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Hello!
My mother (about an hour ago in fact!) bought me and her a pair of webcams. Hers has worked fine - we've been trying them out through msn and we can do plain webcam. Bu these have mics so we tried video calls - her audio and mic work fine. On trying to set mine up I got past the first test where the bar moves up and down indicating it's picking up, but the next audio one where you speak and there is another moving bar - it screeches loudly and constantly at me. It picks up my voice which is really echoey but not clear over the loud loud sounds! When I look at the volume controlls - the loud sound goes when I moved the 'wave' one. But only completely goes when it's mute and of course means there is no sound on the computer at all.
It's a mikomi M6216. Help anyone?
My mother (about an hour ago in fact!) bought me and her a pair of webcams. Hers has worked fine - we've been trying them out through msn and we can do plain webcam. Bu these have mics so we tried video calls - her audio and mic work fine. On trying to set mine up I got past the first test where the bar moves up and down indicating it's picking up, but the next audio one where you speak and there is another moving bar - it screeches loudly and constantly at me. It picks up my voice which is really echoey but not clear over the loud loud sounds! When I look at the volume controlls - the loud sound goes when I moved the 'wave' one. But only completely goes when it's mute and of course means there is no sound on the computer at all.
It's a mikomi M6216. Help anyone?
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Have you tried the cam not working on a different machine?
Lol thats so mean!
I've reinstalled it and its still doing it :grump:
The audio settings in the tool menu of msn picks up the mic fine and says it's fine.
What I've noticed is I go to sounds and audio devices ----> voice
> voice recording ----> test hardware. The first phase works fine, the second phases screeches. If I remove the usb webcam during this screeching, it all stops. I try move it around. It seems really sensitive but I can't really do a lot about that? I'm I going about it the wrong way? Do I need to be touching the voice recording options. It was something I read in the instruction booklet so that's why I did it. I dunno! I know I should probably try it on me mums/thief hers to test it! Thank you for feedback so far
That doesn't even come up on Google - sure you spelt it right?
Could be certain ports blocked I'd try it with Skype as it uses port 80 - may just detect the presence of mics to allow talking.
Cheap shite. Forget about finding support for it online