[kwlug-disc] Where to fix an Acer A500 tablet?

[B. S.]

Use cheese. (Seems to be a common touchstone out there / when people diagnosing / testing webcams. Not that cheese is a diagnostic / debugging tool, merely that people frequently say "cheese says ..." "but when I try to use {xyz} ...")

Else, most anything will do, e.g. even Skype video / preview.

Or any video capable VoIP client, it will have ability to preview as well.

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Others may have other hints ... e.g. For all I know Paul or others might like you to separately capture off the video for later. Think video of presentation with webcam footage in corner for PiP (Picture In Picture).

For that matter, if you do any YouTube'ing or Google Hangouts, they will have tools / tutorials, and so have hints / suggestions / favourites, too.

Finally ... when in doubt ... ask your kids. (?)
[Myself not being a social media / video type of guy to have such knowledge.]




----- Original Message -----
> From: Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com>
> To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
> Cc: 
> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2014 12:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Where to fix an Acer A500 tablet?
> 
>G ood ideas. Thanks.
> 
> Yes, if do it all from one laptop, that would be great.
> 
> By any chance, does anyone know which application can be used to
> stream from a web cam to the desktop? KDE and XUbuntu variants?
> 
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 8:49 PM, B. S. <bs27975 at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>>  Presumably you'll be bringing your laptop / slides, just plug the cam 
> into that. The VGA of your screen being projected will just pick it up.
>> 
>>  Note: You may need to lower / change the camera resolution - the projector 
> may present just a black box in the webcam area, depending upon the 
> bpp/resolution within the webcam box.
>> 
>>  If you use a usb keyboard on the tablet or something, you may be able to 
> leave the cam & tablet in one place for the duration, particularly if you 
> can KVM the display / VGA - switching to the HDMI when desired, leaving / 
> switching to the laptop in split screen cam|slide the rest of the time.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>>  From: Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com>
>>>  To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
>>>  Cc:
>>>  Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 9:47 AM
>>>  Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Where to fix an Acer A500 tablet?
>> 
>>  .
>>  .
>>  .
>>>  The only sure way is to have a separate video camera / webcam pointed
>>>  at the tablet. But I don't know how a video camera / webcam would
>>>  connect to the VGA output.