Panasonic DV Videocam as a Webcam

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.messenger (More info?)

Generally it would be best to go with whatever the Panasonic support folks
tell you. I use a Digital Elph as my webcam and it works in all of the IM
products as does a Logitech that I have. Windows XP recognizes it as a
camera...and the IM applications accept it, surprisingly enough. However,
that is not to say that your Panasonic would work the same.

Doing a quick Google search there is a lot of chatter about the USB webcam
feature, but not much about Firewire. Then again, IMHO, there are a lot
more USB inputs deployed than there are Firewire...at least that is what I
have seen.

Bob

"Panasonic" <Panasonic@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My new Panasonic DV Camera (GS15) is supplied only with a driver for
Windows
> Messenger. Although this works reasonably well, it is very limiting in
that
> it works only with WiN and MS messengers (and not always successfully with
> the latter). No way to use as far as I know with, say, Yahoo Messenger or
> AOL. PANASONIC support have told me there is no plan to release drivers
for
> other messenger software. So, is there anything out there that will allow
me
> to use the camera more widely?? Also, it seems you need to use the USB
port
> on the camera for the Webcam functionality to work, but it is also
equipped
> with a Firewire port (as is my PC). Any way of using the FW port instead
for
> Webcam functions?? Thanks