Sorry, I maybe was a bit confusing...I was addressing his point that the 3Com camera doesn't work under NT (I replied in the main thread about how I got it working under Linux, so I thought I'd post my bit about hwo I got it working under NT in this smaller thread).
I have a Hauppauge WinTV tuner card, with the NT drivers already installed...when I plopped in the 3Com PCI capture card for the BigPicture kit, it detected it as a second Hauppauge WinTV card, and used my existing drivers from my WinTV tuner card to drive it - and it worked perfectly..
Hrm...I've run my camera under Win98, NT, and Linux just fine. I don't remember if my camera came with WinNT drivers; the way I got it working was kinda weird. I have a Hauppauge WinTV-PCI tv tuner card, and fortunately, the capture card bundled with the 3Com camera is a Hauppauge WinTV card (just with the tv tuner stuff removed), so all I did was plop it in, and my system loaded up the WinTV driver, and it worked like a charm. See my post below for Linux stuff.
I have the 3Com/USR BigPicture kit (the Camera + PCI card), and I have it working fine under Linux. I couldn't get it working under the 2.0.x kernel with V4L (Video4Linux) added in manually, but under 2.2.x kernels it has worked like a charm. I just modprobe the standard built-in BTTV module, and it loads it up and works perfectly without any changes necessary or anything; honestly, this has been one of my best hardware experiences under Linux.
I'm not aware of any Netmeeting-compatible tools out there though.
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Sorry, I maybe was a bit confusing...I was addressing his point that the 3Com camera doesn't work under NT (I replied in the main thread about how I got it working under Linux, so I thought I'd post my bit about hwo I got it working under NT in this smaller thread).
I have a Hauppauge WinTV tuner card, with the NT drivers already installed...when I plopped in the 3Com PCI capture card for the BigPicture kit, it detected it as a second Hauppauge WinTV card, and used my existing drivers from my WinTV tuner card to drive it - and it worked perfectly..
Hrm...I've run my camera under Win98, NT, and Linux just fine. I don't remember if my camera came with WinNT drivers; the way I got it working was kinda weird. I have a Hauppauge WinTV-PCI tv tuner card, and fortunately, the capture card bundled with the 3Com camera is a Hauppauge WinTV card (just with the tv tuner stuff removed), so all I did was plop it in, and my system loaded up the WinTV driver, and it worked like a charm.
See my post below for Linux stuff.
I have the 3Com/USR BigPicture kit (the Camera + PCI card), and I have it working fine under Linux. I couldn't get it working under the 2.0.x kernel with V4L (Video4Linux) added in manually, but under 2.2.x kernels it has worked like a charm. I just modprobe the standard built-in BTTV module, and it loads it up and works perfectly without any changes necessary or anything; honestly, this has been one of my best hardware experiences under Linux.
I'm not aware of any Netmeeting-compatible tools out there though.