Netcam Studio with 2 Logitech C510 Webcams

[RJS]

I am using Netcam Studio with Windows 7. I have 2 Logitech C510 webcams attached. Netcam Studio thinks they are the same camera.
Using the program WebcamViewer, I can view each webcam normally so I know that Windows knows there are 2 cams. I e-mailed Netcam Studio about this and they said:
"The software recognizes the source of the video driver name, if you use two webcams with the same driver, it conflicts. We always recommend to use webcam different models in order to use different names driver."

My first thought was to make a copy of the driver and rename it then point the 2nd cam to that driver. However, there are a lot of files associated with these webcams so I guess that approach is out of the question.

Any ideas?

FYI - I chose these cams for 3 reasons:
1 - They are flat and thin and install perfectly inside the home theater speakers.
2 - They are HD.
3 - I already owned them

Thanks,
Robert

[ORNVM]

you might see if windows update has a generic driver that works with these, then you could allow windows to detect and install that for the first camera, then go in and disable automatic detection of drivers, and then install the Logitech one for your second camera.

Logitech seems to be pretty good about having their actual drivers available to the windows updater so this might not work, but if it did you would have one camera with a generic driver and one with the Logitech driver.

Although depending on how the driver detects the device ID it would probably update both cameras to the "better" driver when you go and install the Logitech specific one.... so i guess this is a long shot to get working this way.

That seems like some craptastic design on netcam studio's part to not look any deeper than the driver name for associated devices....

[RJS]

Thanks, I'll give that a shot.

- Robert

[RJS]

I had no success trying to change the driver so I gave up and bought a new cam. Best Buy has a C310 on sale for 1/2 off. It's not as thin as the c510 but it still fits in the home theater speaker.

- Robert