Webcam, live messenger, and media center TV conflict

When I try to send my webcam, my friends see broadast television coming from
my MSN sending efforts. I DO have my cable tv running into the computer iva
the Media Center software. But I am chossing my settings correctly.

I went through the a/v tuning wizard. When I get to the webcam I have
several webcam choices. One is the Falcon tuner and I recognize another one
as my webcam. The Falcon tuner shows the video from my windows media version,
which tunes in my cable tv. When I choose the webcam, the wizard shows the
correct picture, but even tho I select it, that webcam does not show when I
sent my webcam to others on Messenger. Instead they see that cable TV
picture from the media center. Its as if Messenger can only see one source,
the TV. How can I get my recipients to see my webcam.

Again, I can see my correct webcam picture in the audio/video tuning wizard,
but even tho I choose it, when I go back into regular Messenger it is gone,
replaced by the TV
channel.

Greetings,

This issue has come up before. One thing you can try is to force the webcam by temporarily
disabling the TV tuner in the Device Manager.

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"bbbacres" <> wrote in message
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> When I try to send my webcam, my friends see broadast television coming from
> my MSN sending efforts. I DO have my cable tv running into the computer iva
> the Media Center software. But I am chossing my settings correctly.
>
> I went through the a/v tuning wizard. When I get to the webcam I have
> several webcam choices. One is the Falcon tuner and I recognize another one
> as my webcam. The Falcon tuner shows the video from my windows media version,
> which tunes in my cable tv. When I choose the webcam, the wizard shows the
> correct picture, but even tho I select it, that webcam does not show when I
> sent my webcam to others on Messenger. Instead they see that cable TV
> picture from the media center. Its as if Messenger can only see one source,
> the TV. How can I get my recipients to see my webcam.
>
> Again, I can see my correct webcam picture in the audio/video tuning wizard,
> but even tho I choose it, when I go back into regular Messenger it is gone,
> replaced by the TV
> channel.