Registered: Aug 2002
Location: St. Louis
Posts: 108

Targus Handcam as webcam for Visor?

Wouldn't it be wonderful to be able to videoconference using your Visor, just like you can with a PC and MS Netmeeting?

I know that the Targus Handcam is designed primarily as a still and short video camera module for the Visor. Secondarily, it can be used in its USB cradle as a webcam for notebook and desktop PC's.

I would like to know if anyone has figured out a way to use it as a webcam for the VISOR. This could be either in its USB cradle or plugged into the Springport. IF plugged into the Springport, then the internet connection could be made through either IR or an external modem/digital phone. IF in its USB cradle, then a Springboard modem (Handspring, Xircom, Thinmodem, etc.) could be used.

The trick would be to write the proper PalmOS program or hack to handle it all, interface with MS Netmeeting, and generally fool the Handcam into thinking it is connected to a PC instead of to the Visor. I am not a programmer, so my part ends here. Is this possible?

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
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nope. this has been discussed before.

impossible. cool, but impossible. not to say it couldnt be done, but it would be a lot of work to write the software when you could just buy a 30$ webcam instead.

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Registered: Aug 2002
Location: St. Louis
Posts: 108

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Originally posted by thorin
nope. this has been discussed before.

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Please give the URL for this discussion.

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impossible. cool, but impossible. not to say it couldnt be done, but it would be a lot of work to write the software when you could just buy a 30$ webcam instead.

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You mean I can buy a $30 webcam and hook it up directly to my Visor so I can have a highly portable/mobile PDA-based webcam solution? That seems doubtful without, again, specially written PalmOS programming (apps or hacks).

I will probably have to wait until the price comes down on the Sony Clie with built-in camera, but will it even work as a webcam without a PC?

What I really want is one of those "Global" communicators seen on the Sci-Fi series "Earth: Final Conflict", way cooler than Capt. Kirk's old "communicator" or TNG's "Comm badge"! I guess full-motion video on cellphones at an affordable price is still (light-?) years away!

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The Prismer

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
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sorry, i didnt read your entire post. my bad.


the software to do such a thing still doesnt exist though.

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