Slow FPS for HP TrueVision HD Webcam

[Asianesque]

I posted this in the "Notebook Hardware" section, but seeing that there has yet to be any response from any HP employee regarding this issue, I will post it here as well. 

My laptop is an HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC, product number: LM720AV.

Using the pre-installed video capture software, I got a really blurry, slow-moving video. Thinking it was the software, I downloaded a freeware, which had the same result - the freeware actually clocked the frame rate at around 1-3 FPS.

Thinking that perhaps it was an old driver, I attempted to update it through my device manager. Unfortunately, that did not resolve the issue, as the driver - which happens to be by Cyberlink (Cyberlink Webcam Virtual Driver) - proved to be up to date. When asking a friend who also owns a rather new HP laptop about it, I found that his older "HP TrueVision" webcam captured video at around 30 FPS.

Surely the newer, "HD" version of this webcam could not be of poorer quality than the previous version, could it? Is there any way for me to use Skype and record videos at a higher frame rate? Any help towards resolving this issue is much appreciated.

[sanjeevkafle · Accepted solution]

This solution worked for me and should work for you also. The problem was the low light compensation technology of the webcam.

Open youcam or any other webcam configuration freeware like yawcam and go to webam configuration properties.

If you have youcam, you can see the video on the left side. On the right side of the video, there are vertical rows of buttons. The first one is settings. Similarly, the fourth one or the fifth one is the webcam configuration option. Just mouseover the buttons and it says what the button does.

Click the webcam configuration button, It will show you two tabs. 

1. video proc amp tab

2. camera control tab.

Change all the settings as follows.:

Video Proc Amp tab

Brightness 127

Contrast 35

Hue 0

Saturation 50

Sharpness 2

Gamma 299

White Balance 2800

Backlight Comp 0

Gain 100

Powerline Frequency 60 hz

Camera Control Tab

It is set to -2 and the Auto box is checked.

remove low light compensation checkbox.

And hit apply, It will work as a charm

[Asianesque]

Thank you, both for responding to this post and the other post regarding this issue; I now consider to resolved. 

[jaaydott]

I know that I'm pretty late but for anyone who wants to know, the lower your exposure, the higher/faster video quality you get. Just throwing that out there for anyone!

[dadof2and2]

Turning off "low light" works for me also with one caveat.  It won't stick.  I hit "apply" and "OK" but exery time I reboot it's checked again.  Any suggestions?

[caiolima]

I have a HP DV6-6c10us notebook, and with it, HP Truevision HD Webcam, i have made this things, but without auto exposure and light compensation, only with direct sunlight i have imagem, tonight with lights on, i can`t see anything on webcam.

[Sissy16]

This Workes AMAZING! Thank you sooo much!

[nadium]

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[bayram]

could you please on the link to download the driver for my HP TrueVision Do you have gonderırmısınız called i love you