Playing with the Fujitsu U810 webcam

Published by rodfather on November 20, 2007 05:09 pm under Fujitsu U810, Gadgets, Social Networks, Tablet PC, umpc

I started messing with the webcam on the Fujitsu U810.  The overall quality is poor.  The framerate is much less than 15FPS and the picture quality isn’t all that great.  But hey it’s there and I can find a use for it.

 

First thing’s first.   The audiodg.exe process shot up 25% to 100% CPU% whenever I tried to use the cam.  This is the process in Vista that basically handles audio processing.  It ended up being bad Reaktek HD audio drivers that came preinstalled.  Whenever the mic was accessed, the audiodg.exe process would shoot up.

I ended up going to the Realtek support page and installed the updated the Vista drivers.  Now whenever the mic is accessed, the audiodg.exe process doesn’t go crazy.  The most I’ve seen it go up is around 10% now.

Software

It comes with ArcSoft’s WebCam Companion 2 software.  It’s fairly basic which does the job of capturing images and video from the webcam.  It also has a motion capture mode and the ability to edit the clips you have recorded.  It’s not the greatest piece of software but it does the job.

 

Online Video Sites

Ustream.tv works.  The CPU% shoots up close to 100%.  For some reason, ustream.tv performed a bit better when using IE7.

Justin.tv worked fine but there’s a very long delay of 10-20 seconds between what’s live and what is played back.

Flixn.com works great.  There’s no need to register.  You basically record a video clip from the webcam straight to the site and the end result is a webpage and links to embed the video to another site.  I can see myself using this service the most.

Viddler.com is quick and easy.  Great use of the webcam to record clips.

Youtube’s quick capture feature didn’t seem to work.  It sat there waiting for the server to respond.  I’ll try again later but doubt I’ll use it since you have to go through the process of filling in required fields before even capturing a video.

Recording a clip to ‘my library’ with Operator11.com worked fine.  I didn’t try joining a live broadcast but I’m sure there wouldn’t be too much problems.