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Using Creative PC-CAM 880 as a Web Camera 3-1
Using Creative PC-CAM 880 as a Web Camera
This chapter tells you how to quickly set up Creative PC-CAM 880 as a Web Camera using PC-CAM
Center software. For detailed information about the application’s features and settings, refer to its Help
file. (See “Starting PC-CAM Center Help” on page 3-4.)
Connect Your
Camera Plug your camera into the USB port and let Windows auto-detect it. Be sure to switch your camera to
Camera mode by pressing the Mode button (see Figure 1-2) on your camera. Your Camera’s LED
indicator (see Figure 1-2) turns green.
Starting PC-CAM
Center
PC-CAM Center is an easy to use application that enables you to record, view and mange photos and
videos with Creative PC-CAM 880. You can also view photos and videos, and create and manage albums.
You can start PC-CAM Center in any of the following ways:
❑
Click Start -> Programs -> Creative -
> Creative PC-Cam - > Creative
PC-CAM Center .
❑
Double-click the Creative Cam
Detector icon in your taskbar.
This icon appears if, during installation,
you clicked the option for Creative Cam
Detector to launch automatically at
Windows startup.
• If PC-CAM Center does
not recognize the camera
correctly, see Appendix
B, Troubleshooting.
• PC-CAM Center
automatically detects
your installed model of
Creative PC-Cam, and
disables any unsupported
features in the user
interface.
Figure 3-1: PC-CAM Center screen.