heres my plan/question.

my webcam stopped working at the worst time when i had to use it for my parents to talk oversees. so what i did was take some home video in the camcorder and connected it to my vcr. i then plugged the vcr to my video card. then on messenger i set the web cam as my video in.

there was only video but i can hear the sound on my television. my question is can i somehow get sound on my computer? if i put a cable from audio out on my vcr to my jack where my microphone goes i think that would work but i wouldnt be able to talk.

is there a way to have 2 sorts of audio on a messenger chat? i want to show them video with sound and be able to talk at the same time.

anyone know what im asking?

Why not just talk into the mic that's on the camcorder?

And, why not just plug the camcorder's yellow plug into your computers video in, and then get an RCA-> 1/8" mini jack adapter, then plug that into the microphone and just bypass everything. Don't know why that shouldn't work...

Not all Camcorders will work as a webcam Jcarkeys.

I use the firewire connection of my camcorder to use it as a webcam, shows up in My Computer as a webcam(hi rez one too 800x600) it didnt work with msn6.2 but with 7.0 it does. REally work nice becuase it auto focuses and beats out any webcam in quality.

Quote: Originally Posted by NoSlak Not all Camcorders will work as a webcam Jcarkeys.

NoSlak, i know that, but, have you ever been to some store that sells them and they have them hooked up to a TV live? I'm suggesting doing that, and using the video in feature like he said he was using already, unless I misunderstood originally. It's an analog solution, not a digital one like tycoon said.

As long as your cam can output live to a yellow RCA jack, and your computer has a video in feature (might not have yellow jack, you might need a s-video->rca converter), it should work.

Quote: Originally Posted by jcarkeys NoSlak, i know that, but, have you ever been to some store that sells them and they have them hooked up to a TV live? I'm suggesting doing that, and using the video in feature like he said he was using already, unless I misunderstood originally. It's an analog solution, not a digital one like tycoon said. As long as your cam can output live to a yellow RCA jack, and your computer has a video in feature (might not have yellow jack, you might need a s-video->rca converter), it should work.

Hey, my vid card didnt have built in video out(stupid cheap thing) and i wanted tv so i bought a radeon tv card thingy(I dont know which version exactly, the sucky 30$version) and it has this little purple box with the vid and sound and svideo in. Can i make the vid cam work with that? Tell me how if u know
EDIT: 100th post!

to clear it up my video card has VIVO ( video in video out i guess ). another is that is there an adapter that can make my micrphone fit into a usb slot then put audio from my vcr into where my original microphone always goes. would this work in a messenger conversation? 2 audios and 1 webcam?