It works! The silly thing works!

Fired up Director tonight and installed the WebCam Xtra plugin - once the installation niggles were out of the way, I fired up one of the demo coded programs and was amazed by what I saw!

It works - straight 'out of the box' - with nothing but a dodgy no-name $20 webcam!

I was impressed, to say the least.

Probably the most useful demo I've looked at so far is called 'cactus' - it gives an edge tracer of what the camera is looking at - the stronger the contrast, the 'furrier' the edge. Very cool.

Now to dig under the bonnet and tinker with it's ticker...