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Sorry for the delay, lost track of this thread.

The first thing I would be looking for is the 'filter' that
provides the interface to the camera's video and/or audio.

So you must first install whatever drivers and playback
software that came with your 'webcam'. That will install
and register the .ax, .dll, .exe program componets needed.

Make sure the webcam is connected and on then in
Graphedit;

Click on the 'Graph' tab, then 'Insert Filters...'

That should give you a good sized listing of Filters,
componets, effects, sources, and devices.

The first place to check is 'Video Capture Sources'
see if you can find the webcam capture driver listed.

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Then check under 'WDM Streaming Capture Devices'

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Look under any likely video capture related entry.

At this point you should have found something that you
can relate to your webcam. You can insert that filter.

Now that filter should at least one little square 'pin'
on the right side of the box. If you right-click on that
output pin and select 'Render Pin', GraphEdit should
build a graph to play the audio or video associated
with that pin.

If you now can see the webcam's output when you
click on the play button, you are good to go.

From here it is just a matter of adding filters to effect
the stream, like a crop and resize filter, and filters to
direct the output, as you want it, to a file or streaming.

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Look in the 'DirectShow Filters' listing for what you
can do with what is already installed on your system.
Remember that you can download many other filters
to do whatever you may want. Filter/codec packs
like the K-Lite Codec Pack can provide a plentiful
start, just don't get carried away and create conflicts.

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Luck;
Ken

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