sanyo vpc th1 webcam support

This may be down to the output the Camera has.

iChat and Photo Booth can input from a USB camera providing it is a codec they can "read".

What some manufactures do is output mpegs which iMovie can see on the whole whilst the two other Apple apps prefer DV in (As in Firewire).

If it outputs a TV type such as PAL or NTSC thenonly iMovie is likely to "see" it.

What you may find is if the output does change in this Web Cam setting that is something that can be imported on a PC rather than a Mac (even iMovie can not input mpeg2)

I would try other output settings on the camera.



9:01 PM Sunday; May 24, 2009

Hi,

This page says HD

Can it output in non HD and 4 X 3 ratio ?

The Specs page suggests not

Videos*5

HD-SHQ: 1280 x 720 (30 fps/ 9Mbps)
TV-HR: 640 x 480 (60 fps/6Mbps)
TV-SHQ: 640 x 480 (30 fps/3Mbps)

*5 For these models 60fps is actually 59.94fps, 30fps is actually 29.97fps, 240fps is actually 239.76fps, and 600fps is actually 599.4fps.

Nor is the Interface bit clear suggesting PAL/NTSC

Interface AV output Video: HDMI/Composite video, NTSC/PAL
USB 2.0 (high-speed mode compatible)

You should not be concerned with how it records (although this can supply clues).
What you should be concerned about is how it can output.

It mentions HDMI and Composite Video which is how it physically connects (It also says USB 2.0)

It mentions HD and SD for Video in the top section.
It says also PAL/NTSC Output (for TVs in Europe and other places)

This page has a tab about Fun after Shooting and shows How to Save to Computer
Obviously they show a PC running XP

It does show you picking the computer to output it to.
You will not need to select the Card Reader but leave the camera in Preview as if you were about to Record (As opposed to Playback).

Then it will be a question of selecting hopefully DV at Standard 4 X 3 ratio
I Can not see it does this as the choices seem to be the native Mpeg format for Recording and the TV (PAL/NTSC) output.



2:42 PM Monday; May 25, 2009

Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

Ok.



4:29 PM Monday; May 25, 2009

Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

Has anyone found out if the vpc th1 will work as a webcam?

As the original poster has not come back I have not.

Enough time has past that the Subscription I had to this thread has automatically ended.
This might be the same for the original poster and he might not get an eamil to say there is a new post in the thread.



10:20 PM Monday; July 6, 2009

It does work in Windows XP, but I get the same results in Mac OS X 10.5, maybe Snow Leopard will save the day? ...but I doubt it.