I know my webcam works but with Flix all I get is a dark grey box and no live image. Whats wrong?
A8: What Flix does is take the first imaging device in your registry and try to get images from it. If it can’t find any image devices it will flash up a message box saying “can’t find a webcam/camera.” If a dark grey box is being shown, it might be due to interference from other webcam software that is already running. Please close these down and try again. Otherwise the webcam is probably not listed as the default device – it may instead be the graphics card for example. Try “My Computer”, “properties”, “device manager” and select the cross beside “sound, video and game controllers”. The USB webcam should be listed here but perhaps along with other devices (like, an entry “Nvidia WDM Video Capture”). Check the properties of any such capture device and disable them (presumably they are not being used anyway) then the webcam should be bumped up to be the first capture device. Flix should then work properly!
A8: What Flix does is take the first imaging device in your registry and try to get images from it. If it can’t find any image devices it will flash up a message box saying “can’t find a webcam/camera.” If a dark grey box is being shown, the webcam is probably not listed as the default device, it may instead be the graphics card for example. Now, try “My Computer”, “properties”, “device manager” and select the cross beside “sound, video and game controllers”. The usb webcam should be listed here but perhaps along with other devices (like, an entry “Nvidia WDM Video Capture”). Check the properties of any such capture device and disable them (presumably they are not being used anyway) then the webcam should be bumped up to be the first capture device. Flix should then work properly!
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