knock on wood but the encoder settings are not a issue here
I dont have the best upload (fuck you roadrunner and your fucking "turbo")
I am on a i7 that was just wiped clean and a c920
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I tried to put 1024x576(that's the next 16:9 resolution my cam supports) and I was awfully freezing, and also my placement went waaay down. Now I tried Lower settings for widescreen resolution and it's ok, no freezing, the same placement etc., but the stream looks blurry.
Now I don't know if thats only the cam issue, and if I get this c920 will be ok, or can also be my upload/computer. I have i5 with 3.2 ghz processor speed, 4 gb ram(cpu usage during streaming is around 35%), but only 0.9 upload speed. I don't know if the freezing I had was because settings weren't right or I just don't have enough upload/i7 to run it. I would hate to buy new cam and than still have issues. Is there anyone who has the right cam but not so good upload and computer? Are these new settings working for you?
I'm so sad right now, I bought this new i5 laptop 2 months ago and thought it would be ok for SM, and now this...:(
If anyone if interested in buying a 920, Amazon has them on sale for 72.99. If you are a prime member, you get free 2 day shipping.
I have not used the new settings yet because I hate the look of wide screen for camming. I can only assume they are requiring the widescreen as another part of the TV stuff, or mobile applications. I have had A LOT of mobile customers lately.
And really, I would be surprised if the widescreen part of this REALLY played into placement that much. There are still a ton of other factors that are going to play into our placement, it would be very surprising if widescreen put you more than a couple spots from where you are now. I doubt anyone from page 5 is going to be in row 1 simply by using widescreen, or anyone from row 1 will go to page 5 because they don't use it. Ya know?
Anyway, It was super busy for me both day time and night time yesterday. I was in private non stop and made a few gold show goals, so hey at least that's good!
You can't have them automatically change. Some of those girls might just have auto-capture on & that's what you're seeing. Or they're changing their pic a few times per shift. That's easy to do. Since you should always have more than one tab of SM open, just go to your profile on the 2nd tab and change the pic yourself (they all have to be approved ahead of time, but then you click "Edit" next to "My Profile Picture" (above your pic), then "Make Primary Photo" underneath whichever photo you want to be your bio pic).
the site is glitching again im getting guys being booted out of free the second they get in
I logged into SM today, after taking a day off from camming and my admirer/heart number is magically about 250 more? Was it just glitching before and not showing me my real number? Weird, but I'll take it!
Next order of business, figuring out this widescreen.
I need a widescreen cam for it to work properly, that's for sure.
ETA: I think I'm going with the C920
I got the widescreen to work. im loving it.
I used the new settings last night and most guys seem to like it. It made my picture a LOT clearer, crazy clear. lol the only downside in my opinion is it makes your screen more scrunched you know, they cant see as much of you length wise...haha..
BUT it does make your cam look very nice ;)
Was a litte glitchy too..but whats new?! SM always seems to have connection problems.
I had it on widescreen yesterday and every single customer bitched how they hated it. They are not going to like when we all have to use it. It is going to be a bit hard to get used to.
Okay, so i really hate to buy a new webcam if i don't have to... I have the logitech HD C615. And i cant get the new encoder settings to work. I have this option to to "quick capture" pictures and videos with it. And when i bring that up, i can do both in widescreen without a problem. Its just not working with the encoder.... Does anyone else have this camera? I need some help ladies. Please :)