USB Endoscope viewing software

[Harry Bloomfield]

I've just had a cheap USB endoscope/snake camera delivered. WinXP's
control panel has 'Scanners and Cameras', which allows me to see a tiny
view of what the camera sees, but there has to be a better way. Your
suggestions please, for some free viewing software?

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[Etaoin Shrdlu]

Harry Bloomfield wrote:
> I've just had a cheap USB endoscope/snake camera delivered. WinXP's
> control panel has 'Scanners and Cameras', which allows me to see a tiny
> view of what the camera sees, but there has to be a better way. Your
> suggestions please, for some free viewing software?
>

Mine came with specially-written software on a mini-disk. Is yours
still in the bottom of the jiffy-bag? I nearly threw away a raid card
driver for that reason only a few days ago. The software (which is best
described as 'functional') is called rscap 2.10 , and as I try it just
now, Google return a few downloads for this.

[Harry Bloomfield]

Etaoin Shrdlu has brought this to us :

Its just a bare camera, with a coiled up lead, no software, no
instructions, but some sort of 90 mirror attachment and a lens cleaning
cloth.

Thanks, I'll take a look at rscap.

[Andy Burns]

Harry Bloomfield wrote:

> Its just a bare camera, with a coiled up lead, no software, no
> instructions, but some sort of 90 mirror attachment and a lens cleaning
> cloth.

If it shows up in control panel, then using VLC should be able to
capture and/or record from it too ... .e.g.

http://www.inteligentcomp.com/2013/01/record-from-webcam-using-vlc.html

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

Mirror attachment? Sounds like you got the deluxe version. Mine had
nothing but the disk, but it was enough to show me my piston crowns.

[Harry Bloomfield]

Etaoin Shrdlu was thinking very hard :

The mirror is intended to allow it to look sideways, but it makes it
very blurred. Its as if it is steamed up. Might have a go at cleaning
it later.

None of the suggestions would produce an image at all, which seems odd,
what I did find which worked was a package called VimicroCam. Rather
heavyweight package at 5.3Mb, but at least you can fill the screen with
the image.

All I wanted to do, was inspect the hidden valley gutter between my
garage and workshop for obstructions. It over flowed when the snow
melted from the roofs recently.

[newshound]

Glad you found something which worked. Many of them seem to be
"webcams", mine will run on Ubuntu (but I usually use the supplied
software on windows machines). I've never had much joy with mirror
attachments.

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

I was quite pleased when I discovered I could see how much crud was in
the gutters by sticking a webcam on a stick. Much easier than wrestling
the ladder out of the garage.

[Davey]

On Wed, 04 Feb 2015 10:28:36 GMT, Harry Bloomfield
<harry...@NOSPAM.tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

>I've just had a cheap USB endoscope/snake camera delivered. WinXP's
>control panel has 'Scanners and Cameras', which allows me to see a tiny
>view of what the camera sees, but there has to be a better way. Your
>suggestions please, for some free viewing software?

You need to take off XP and put on Linux: problem solved.

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

michael newport wrote:

> On Wed, 04 Feb 2015 15:38:07 +0000, Etaoin Shrdlu <n...@way.com> wrote:
>
>>> All I wanted to do, was inspect the hidden valley gutter between my
>>> garage and workshop for obstructions. It over flowed when the snow
>>> melted from the roofs recently.
>>>
>>
>> I was quite pleased when I discovered I could see how much crud was in
>> the gutters by sticking a webcam on a stick. Much easier than wrestling
>> the ladder out of the garage.
>

> Interesting thread - just to ask if someone could recommend a
> particular endoscope model for use in auto applications/diy in the
> shed etc ? Peering inside cylinders sounds fun :-) I'd like to try it
> out!
>
> eg
> http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3-5-Video-10mm-Inspection-Snake-Scope-Camera-Endoscopy-Endoscope-4-LEDs-/251686213223?pt=UK_BOI_Medical_Lab_Equipment_Medical_Equipment_Instruments_ET&hash=item3a99aad667
>

I just got the cheapest I could find - about £12 I think. Can't say
what model it is, just some anonymous Chinese thing. It works well
enough. The only thing I'd suggest is to check the diameter is small
enough to go into the plug hole.

I hope you find that your piston crowns are cleaner than mine are :-)

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo <mn.22747df2e5...@NOSPAM.tiscali.co.uk>, Harry
Bloomfield <harry...@NOSPAM.tiscali.co.uk> escribió:

>I've just had a cheap USB endoscope/snake camera delivered. WinXP's
>control panel has 'Scanners and Cameras', which allows me to see a tiny
>view of what the camera sees, but there has to be a better way. Your
>suggestions please, for some free viewing software?

See if you have amcap.exe available - Win-R, amcap.exe. if not, google
for it.

There's two versions - the original, free Microsoft one, and an improved
version, which is payware.

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[Harry Bloomfield]

Harry Bloomfield expressed precisely :

> I've just had a cheap USB endoscope/snake camera delivered. WinXP's control
> panel has 'Scanners and Cameras', which allows me to see a tiny view of what
> the camera sees, but there has to be a better way. Your suggestions please,
> for some free viewing software?

The camera worked, for a total of 30minutes only. It seems what I had
failed to notice was that the camera cable, where it entered the USB
plug, had not been fixed at all. Internally it was just hanging on its
connections. The first time it came under any strain, it failed. This
one....

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5M-6-LED-USB-Waterproof-Endoscope-Borescope-Snake-Inspection-Video-Camera-7mm-HC-/251657223573?ssPageName=ADME:X:RTQ:GB:1123

Up to that point it worked just as you would expect. If you have bought
one or were thinking to buy one, worth checking and maybe trying to fix
it before it rips the connections off.

Beyond that, I have not explored, because I have raised an issue with
the seller, via ebay. The seller is pleading poverty and offering a 50%
refund, to which I have made a counter offer of a full refund or
replacement be sent, along with an offer to return the faulty item if
he pays the postage.

I will delve deeper, once I know which way my claim against the seller
goes.

[Hankus]

replying to Harry Bloomfield, Hankus wrote:
Make sure you remove the poly sheet covering the mirror otherwise it will be
very poor.

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[Sam Plusnet]

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[Sci-Fi Si]

replying to Andy Burns, Sci-Fi Si wrote:
Awesome answer!

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[The Natural Philosopher]

On 24/01/18 18:14, Sci-Fi Si wrote:
> replying to Andy Burns, Sci-Fi Si wrote:
> Awesome answer!
>

Useless post!


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[Dave W]

On 24/01/2018 18:19, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 24/01/18 18:14, Sci-Fi Si wrote:
>> replying to Andy Burns, Sci-Fi Si wrote:
>> Awesome answer!
>>
> Useless post!
>
>

and three years too late.

[Brian Gaff]

Not very awsome reply though considering no quotes and using the most hated
usenet interface I came across.
Brian

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[FMurtz]

Sci-Fi Si wrote:
> replying to Andy Burns, Sci-Fi Si wrote:
> Awesome answer!
>

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