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iCam Support / Re: All 4 cam's = fast. 1 full screen = slow

« on: December 20, 2010, 04:18:01 PM »

Just thought id add to this incase it helped anyone else.

I was suffering from the 1sec pauses when viewing my webcam full screen on my iphone. Small thumbnail it was perfect. As soon as i went to full screen i would get a pause every few seconds which made the picture very jumpy, lowering the quality to nearly the bottom helped but it wasnt pefect.

Anyway... I was running a linksys wrt54g router with the linksys firmware. Ive upgraded the firmware to 'Tomato' for other reasons, I tried icam after the firmware upgrade and guess what... no stutter, no pauses, i can run full screen via wifi and have it on virtually max quality without any loss in frame rate and its stutter free.

It seems my problem with the stutter and pauses was down to my linksys firmware on my router.
Dont know if this will help other people with this issue but its worth looking into.

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Beta Testing / Re: iCamSource 2.0 BETA

« on: August 29, 2010, 10:36:51 AM »

Switching between the beta and the stable I find that the beta 2.0 gives a much better framerate/update.

Im really impressed with the beta, just that it doesnt seem to keep a constant upload speed of about 250k through my wireless network, it drops down to below 100k at times causing the slow framerate/update of the picture in full screen on the iphone.
When it drops below 100k upload i havent seen the processor load increase so its not to do with this, and there is nomore network traffic causing it either, it looks like it may be something in the program (icamsource beta 2.0) thats causing it.

The stable gives a really low upload speed, only about 80k or so when in full screen on the iphone, so that beta is much much better at 250k. The stable does keep a constant 80k upload though and doesnt drop.

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Beta Testing / Re: iCamSource 2.0 BETA

« on: August 27, 2010, 08:57:06 AM »

Just been checking out the 2.0 beta against the latest stable release.

I must say that beta 2.0 streams video alot smoother over wifi then stable.

But

Ive been watching the throughput from the beta over wi-fi and it tops out at about 250k upload but it keeps dropping now and then to around 30k then to 150k then back to
250k. This makes the video stutter and pause when im viewing full screen on my iphone 4. Thumbnail view on the iphone is very fluid.

I havent got any other programs running on my PC to slow down the upload speed, the stable release is far slower, that uploads at about 30-50k so beta 2.0 is a great improvement but thought i would let you know about my findings so if possible we could get a steady upload keeping the video fluid without stutter.

Ive tried different webcams and its not down to these that alter the upload speed or the speed of my pc as the processor is only at 20% load.
The preview in the icamsource PC program is constantly fluid.

Im running my iphone on the same wi-fi network as icamsource is running on.
Hopefully theres something that can be changed to get a constant upload of around 250k keeping the video fluid on fullscreen on the iphone.

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Beta Testing / Re: iCamSource 2.0 BETA

« on: August 27, 2010, 04:36:01 AM »

If you check the Auto Start checkbox in the iCamSource Preferences window it should be hidden automatically when the iCamSource starts.

That worked great, thanks for the quick update.

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Beta Testing / Re: iCamSource 2.0 BETA

« on: August 26, 2010, 06:49:22 AM »

Im using the lastest beta on Windows 7 64bit and its working great.

One thing though when I autostart the program by placing it into the startup folder and I use the 'Start minimized option' the program does load up on startup of the PC but the program doesnt auto minimize to the system tray which would be very useful, it loads to the taskbar instead.

If I press the 'X' on the program window then the program does minimize to the system tray and not the taskbar.

I would like the program to automatically minimize to the system tray on loadup instead of it being put into the taskbar.
Could this be implemented?.

Thanks.