Quickcam Orbit AF Problems

[Stefan Will]

Hi Steve,


Steve Sisak wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
>
> Sorry for the delayed reply -- I think your original message got 
> bounced by the list server due to the size of the attached picture.
>
Actually my initial email sent from the default OSX mail client bounced 
with an error message saying something about "skipping non-text/plain 
text parts", even though I had set the text format to plain text. The 
only way I could get past that error message was to send it from 
Thunderbird. But then I realized that the attachments were way beyond 
the 40k limit and I had to trim the picture and leave out the logs.
>> I recently bought a new Logitech Quickcam Orbit AF to use with my 
>> Intel based Mac Mini. It works fine with the built in driver, but I 
>> got the IOXperts driver so I can use the Pan/Tilt/Zoom features on 
>> the camera. I got it working once with the beta 43 driver, but never 
>> consistently. The typical behavior is that the camera initializes 
>> when I open a camera window (the led turns on), but then I don't get 
>> any video and in Skype I just get a constantly rotating beach ball.
>
> I think that this may be a camera firmware issue and I may have a 
> workaround for it -- if this is the case, I may have a fix for you 
> shortly.
>
Great ! Can't wait to test it.
>> The other weird thing is that the camera control window comes up with 
>> chinese (?) characters (see screenshot) even though I have the US 
>> English version of OSX 10.4.
>
> We see that every once in awhile and I still have no idea what causes 
> it, but there's an easy workaround.
>
> If you open the Internaltional Settings control panel on your 
> computer, change the default language to something other than English, 
> then change it back, the problem appears to be fixed permanently.
>
I tried that: I changed the default language to German, rebooted, 
switched back to English, rebooted. The problem was still there. I of 
course also tried it once without rebooting.
>> I've attached a screenshot (with Video Viewer in the background), as 
>> well as the logs I got with the logging driver (no difference in 
>> behavior between the logging and non-logging drivers by the way).
>>
>> Is there anything else I can try ?
>
> Try the above and see if it helps.
>
> -Steve