Good free program for recording with laptop cam?

Denno · Oct 28, 2009

Hi!
my wife bought a laptop and it had a webcam included just above the screen. But I cant seem to find any software for recording directly from it.

It works fine with with camchats on msn, but no external recordingprogram.

Anyone know of a good one to record video and sound?

buddhuu · Oct 28, 2009

What is the laptop and operating system?

My Acer laptop (Windows) has a recording facility tucked away in the manufacturers multimedia software. Took some finding.

Denno · Oct 28, 2009

Its an PAckard Bell and its XP home I belive.

ainokeato · Oct 28, 2009

Denno said:
Its an PAckard Bell and its XP home I belive.

You should be able to record using Windows Media Maker if you're using XP it should be under your programs list somewhere.

ukulele2544 · Oct 28, 2009

Try using this one. Might work for you, let me know if somethings wrong

ogikloavailable · Oct 28, 2009

i use cyberlink youcam. It's a nice program too

Denno · Oct 28, 2009

ainokeato said:
You should be able to record using Windows Media Maker if you're using XP it should be under your programs list somewhere.

Hmm I dont find this...

Kalalaika · Oct 28, 2009

Vlc

You could trie VLC Mediaplayer...
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Here is a tutorial: http://www.scribd.com/doc/25400/Video-Recording-With-VLC
VLC is also a great player to figure out tabs of songs you'd like to learn, as you can play videos with half speed and sound...

thisnthat · Oct 28, 2009

Denno said:
Hmm I dont find this...

My shortcut for it is under start>All programs>accessories
I have moved my shortcuts around though so that might not be where it was originally.

If you really don't have it you can download from here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/moviemaker2.mspx

edit: oh and it's called Windows movie maker on my machine.

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