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    Default Why does my cam feed suck so bad?!

    After an hour of making $0, taking a 10-minute break to cry my eyes out, followed by another 15 mins of making $0, this happened.


    money569: i love you *my name* but your cam blows, it slightly laggy. i think you'll hear it from other people too. *I do!*
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    money569: every since i have known u
    well your really hot
    and people dont want to say technical things to do u because it looks like your head will explode

    This is a very nice customer who gets shows from me. First of all, I just upgraded my internet speed today. I get 5 upload, I've done consistent speed tests. Second, I just upgraded from my built in-cam to a logitech pro 9000. I have a fairly new computer with Windows 7 I...I just don't know what I'm doing wrong. I've noticed that people complain about lag if i'm running pandora while camming, but other than that, I don't even have any other programs running. I used firefox for a long time, but I've been using chrome since January. A lot of people have been complaining about not hearing me since I got the logitech. But not everyone in the room at the same time? WTF IS GOING ON?!
    I guess I'm dumb because I don't know if I'm using the encoder or not. I installed it, changed all the setting on it, but I never have it running while I'm camming. I think that means I'm not using it?
    I'm a hot mess.
    And speaking of my logitech pro 9000, I can not get it to work on imlive for whatever reason. I can select it as my video source, but it still shows the feed from my built in cam.
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    Hey girl i cant be of much help but i totally understand what ur going threw.... I had the saaaaame issues and tryed tons of things, so many things i dont even remember
    What i did when it changed and started working for me, But just try to be patient ull get it figured out. This used to make me wanna Rip my hair out......
    I hope u figure it out!

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    Your situation sounds alot like mine. I haven't had much of a problem on SM. But we pretty much had to let LJ go due to streaming issues and also not to mention all the beggars. Only we dont have a built in cam, just a Logitech C190. But mine and your speed, windows 7 ect is all the same. I have yet to figure out how to adjust the encoder to fit my computer's needs so we dont use it right now. I've emailed admin many many times, sent in screenshots and everything but they keep saying my upload speed is not high enough which is .6. We dont split cam and only run Itunes while were camming. And use chrome. I don't know what to do either!! =(






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    Hey.. I had major issues last time I cammed (wednesday) I changed my encoder from 3.2 to the 3.1 SM recommends......and my cam was laggy as shit and I couldnt play music at all through windows media player which i always am able to do.

    So after that horrible experience in missing out on cash and being super frustrated the next morning i Redownloaded encoder 3.2 again, and tonight im going to try camming and see if i still get issues....i shouldn't because this is what i had before and it was pretty decent.

    I dont know why i thought "Oh lets use 3.1 instead just cuz streamate says its better." They have no idea what their talking about.

    Hopefully switching back to using 3.2 encoder will make things go back to normal. Oh also...i dunno if it affected my stream or not, but I erased google chrome to before i cammed wednesday and i used firefox. But for tonight I REdownloaded chrome again...sooooo im trying chrome, with encoder 3.2 like I had it before !!! dammit !

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    Default Re: Why does my cam feed suck so bad?!

    Not sure what site you are on, but I'm guessing SM....

    I always check my cam on my cammodels.com link in a separate window - it lets me see if I am actually lagging/not appearing with sound or if it is an issue on the customers end (it also lets you see what is going on when you are trying to fix it rather than relying on customer opinion).

    If you ARE lagging, but your upload is sufficient, you are running at least a dual-core processor and you have the encoder running, check that you are connected via a cable, rather than wirelessly, and that you have no other programs running. (And obviously, nothing streaming or downloading!)

    As for the sound issue - occasionally my logitech does that - I just close the webcam software and then turn it back on again, and usually that does the trick and I have sound again.

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    Default Re: Why does my cam feed suck so bad?!

    Check your connection quality here: see if you have packet loss.... if you have more than 5% average it doesn't matter what your upload speed is you are going to have a laggy, choppy cam

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    Default Re: Why does my cam feed suck so bad?!

    check to see what the cpu is on your computer too.... You will get kicked off of sm if you cpu is hits 100 and you will be slow and freeze if it over 75.

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    If you don't know if you are running the encoder or not on streamate you most definitely are not. When you log into your streamate account on the dashboard page right above your picture there is an HD logo that has a Click here button. Click that.. then if you already have the encoder downloaded press step 2 to configure the encoder. Follow all of those steps first. You will be seeing your video feed through the encoder not through the streamate window. When you are ready to stream you log into your account, go to start my show and where the quality drop down menu is pick the external encoding option. When you are ready to stream and have the encoder ready to go press start my show like you normally would. Instead of the show starting automatically you will see a pop up box with FMS URL and STREAM you will copy the FMS and paste it into the box for FMS URL on the right side of the encoder options and the STREAM you will copy and paste into the box for Stream also on the right side of the encoder. Click on the green start button at the bottom of the encoder and you voila you are now streaming with the encoder.. for sure

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    WhatNOW~~ I was wondering...When I open the encoder and Im streaming using it: Every time I go to type in the SM box, like to answer someone that doesn't have their audio on, my encoder window always goes behind it. Its rather annoying to have to keep clicking back and forth. But my computer screen isn't really large. Is there anyway to avoid that or do I just need to get a bigger monitor and adjust each window to fit into it? I've already tried to do that with the monitor Im on now, but I can't get the encoder window to adjust smaller than I need. ???






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    I usually put my encoder on the right side of my screen with it showing at about 75%(you can change the output video preview which is at the top of the video) and I resize my browser window. That way I can see both

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    Oh and once I'm streaming I don't really find a need to mess with the encoder. I usually just leave it be until I take a break.

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    Default Re: Why does my cam feed suck so bad?!

    Make sure your not using wireless internet instead use your Ethernet cord.That's how i fixed a similar situation.(the lagging)

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    Default Re: Why does my cam feed suck so bad?!

    Thanks everyone!!
    I am plugged in with an ethernet cable.
    I'm getting an error when I run a packet loss test? So I'm not sure what my packet loss is.
    I will have to check cpu usage next time I'm on and try actually using the encoder! Thank you so much Whatnot for the instructions!
    I have tried monitoring my own feed, thanx for the great suggestion ManyRoses! It looks like sometimes my feed is great, other times, it is lagging for sure. Boooo.
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    Edit: I figured it out
    Last edited by MommieLongLegs; 02-25-2012 at 07:46 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LaceyCummings View Post
    Thanks everyone!!
    I am plugged in with an ethernet cable.
    I'm getting an error when I run a packet loss test? So I'm not sure what my packet loss is.
    I will have to check cpu usage next time I'm on and try actually using the encoder! Thank you so much Whatnot for the instructions!
    I have tried monitoring my own feed, thanx for the great suggestion ManyRoses! It looks like sometimes my feed is great, other times, it is lagging for sure. Boooo.
    You said up above that you were using chrome now, I just did the ping test in chrome and it was erroring on me. I switched to firefox and tried it with that and got a good result, try running the test in a different browser

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    Default Re: Why does my cam feed suck so bad?!

    For those of you with the packet test error, don't just run it and leave it. You will likely have to:

    A: Tell Chrome it's okay to run the Java app it's using to run the test. This should appear in a bar at the top of your browser while the test is running. You will have to click the option that allows it to 'always run on this site'.

    B: Windows Firewall will likely attempt to block java from performing the test, since it involves sending packets of data. A window should pop up (either in a foreground or background window), and you will have to click to "unblock" the program.

    C: After you get past the sec blocks, you may need to refresh the page and begin the test again, so that everything is enabled properly.

    edit: If you run the test then move to another tab, you will likely miss these popups, as they will time out.

    Hope this helped. ^^
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    I hit the accept at the top in chrome to say it was ok to run, but it still wasn't running for me properly in chrome It was just easier for me to switch to firefox and run it there. Thanks for explaining how to get it to run in chrome though!

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    Thanks again everyone! i am finally actually using the encoder and haven't had any problems with video quality since! YAY! Traffic is improved a lot also, so thank you so so much for the tips! I saw somewhere in a thread a mention about using the encoder to take still pictures. Can't for the life of me find it now. Does anyone happen to know?
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