5.2 Video Problems?
Having a problem with scrambled video in your local video window even when you are not video chatting? Go to your contact list “actions” menu then choose “settings” and then “video”. Next check the box “use old rendering system”.
IMPORTANT: If you’re not having any problems don’t activate the old rendering system, otherwise future cool features we plan to add may not work on your computer.
Only a very small percentage of Camfrog users with extremely old video systems should need to check this box.
January 28th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Perhaps you can let us know the details about some of the cool new features which will be added to camfrog using the new rendering system?
(new rendering system works fine)
January 28th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Can’t say yet.
January 28th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
BIGGG DEEPEST DARKEST SECRET?!?!? LOL
January 28th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
I’m waiting for CamfrogBot plugin to fetch a beer from the fridge while I Camfrog!
January 29th, 2009 at 3:53 am
I don’t have an “extremely old video system”, but when I don’t use the old rendering systems my cam and those of others look scrambled and pixeled.
January 29th, 2009 at 6:34 am
Does your video look scrambled when you are looking at it without being in a room?
January 29th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
I was online (servers), my video chat & all my rooms logged off in my servers (in seconds) and got back. So , it wasn’t really bad at all. Everything is okay. And we continue to promote camfrog chatrooms. The new features are awesome, super.
Thank you so much Camfrog Admins, more power!
January 29th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
THX FOR THE ANNOUNCEMENT…THE NEW FEATURES ARE COOL , I WAS ABLE TO ORGANIZE OUR ROOMS AND BUDDYLIST
THANK U CAMFROG ADMINS
January 30th, 2009 at 1:31 am
Yes i have this problem with my laptop. It has a SiS 760GX video card.
January 30th, 2009 at 7:26 am
Jesus,
Does your video look scrambled when you are looking at it without being in a room, or only when you are in a room or in a one on one chat?
January 30th, 2009 at 10:36 am
I thought Jesus could do anything LOL f
January 31st, 2009 at 4:34 am
My video looks scrambled when I am in a room and when I am 1on1 and when I just open the preview of my cam.
January 31st, 2009 at 8:24 am
Carmen,
Try the suggested change above and let me know if it solves it.
February 1st, 2009 at 6:25 am
Some Brazilian users, are experience the same scrambled video problems. We inform to do these actions on post without sucess. Many users are asking about the oldest 5.1 version because its not so heavy on non TOP computers
February 1st, 2009 at 11:00 am
Is the scrambled video in their local video when they are not in a room, or is it when joining a room or in a video chat?
February 1st, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Perhaps a new feature is in order which would enble us to specify exactly how many cams should appear vertically and horizontally on screen with the auto-sort feature turned on and when the screen fills up it should start either on the 2nd monitor or overlapping on 1st monitor.
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I am surprised that this feature was not yet implemented in camfrog. Also would be nice to have some real support for people who have dual monitors…….
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(p.s. my video window does not scamble in preview mode nor in the room local video all is fine for me)
February 3rd, 2009 at 6:55 am
Hello Admin!
Its a scramble video on both sides .. inside room and own video ..
03 users report me about REMOVE manycam .. camfrog works normally.
February 3rd, 2009 at 12:34 pm
I think there talking about Lag not video issues to be honest a few rooms lag out means drop of audio and vedeo for a few seconds
February 4th, 2009 at 2:13 am
The thing is, it’s not just “extremely old” systems that are not compatible with the new Camfrog rendering system. It’s basically any Dell/Gateway/Compaq/etc that isn’t a “modded” or “gaming” configuration. Assuming that many Camfrog users just buy standard pre-made mid-level configurations, there will be a large portion of us who have “on board video” that doesn’t support DirectX 9.0.
Even upgrading to a video card is sometimes a challenge. For example, in my case, I bought my Dell Dimension 3100 a little under two years ago. I tried upgrading to a new video card, but this system (and many other basic/midlevel systems) doesn’t have PCI-Express 2.0 slots that most video cards require these days, just PCI slots and 1 PCI-e 1.1 slot. On top of that, I tried to upgrade to a 128MB Nvidia PCI card that supports DirectX 9.0, but then it turned out that my power supply was only 230watts and generally cards above 64MB require 250+ watt power supplies. So until I buy a new system, I’m stuck with a 64MB card that doesn’t support DirectX 9.0. Thanks for at least letting us have the option of using the old rendering system. I think you underestimate how many of us really have to use it, if the option wasn’t there I’d guess that at least 20% of people on Camfrog would lose their video.
One problem I think might need tackling eventually is Camfrog Mac users. I’ve sent you an e-mail before about it. I’ve asked others if they experience this and I’m not the only one. Basically Camfrog Mac users used to have the BEST video quality by far. After about Camfrog 3.94, they all started randomly getting pixelation on their cams every 5-10 seconds. I guess it’s not THAT big of a deal, it’s just a shame that their technology is going to waste.
February 4th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Hopefully the next Mac version should solve that problem for you Adrian.
February 7th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
camfrog 5.2 sucks! Video is scrambled and pixeled! where i can download the old version 5.1 pls?
February 9th, 2009 at 7:40 am
Gannouchou69,
To use the 5.1 video system just read the instructions in this blog post and uncheck the box in the 5.2 version. Downloading 5.1 will not help anything.
February 11th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
the rendering solution workded for me. Thank you
March 17th, 2009 at 3:29 am
I had my laptop repaired. Now when I go on Camfrog, I cannot get video streaming. It tells me to turn off my firewall. Or remove and re-install the program. I tried both and nil. I can go into the chat rooms, but I don’t hear sound or no streaming video would work. Aaaarrggg…please help.
May 1st, 2009 at 9:07 pm
i am using the comfrog 5.2 its become video scrambled. and i was fixed using the old rendering system, but if i go to the old rendering system my pc will restarted… pls help me to fixed them… and i am really dis appointed the camfrog if you cannot help me… pls help me… this is my email address… jeff_alferz@yahoo.com tnx……
May 31st, 2009 at 8:51 am
how can i get 5.2version of camfrog?? because i dont like version 5.3
August 24th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
why does camfrog always close down after about 5 mins the message i receive camfrog client module has stopped working windows will close the program thanks