QuickCam Camera Technology QuickCam from Connectix is a fully digital video camera. QuickCam sends these digital bits directly to your Mac or PC through a parallel port, such as your computer's built-in printer port. This gives you higher quality at a lower cost than solutions that convert to analog video and back. The array can capture images up to 320x240 pixels, or about a quarter of a standard VGA monitor. QuickCam connects to your Mac's or PC's parallel port using the 5' cable supplied.
Power is taken directly from the port.
Read the latest FAQ, also to be found in the Cornell ftp area . This will tell you what you can and cannot expect CU-SeeMe to do now, and in the future. Open a connection to one of the reflectors listed in the public reflectors list. You will find the source and all you need to know to make it work in the Cornell reflector ftp area. I have found the following can be useful when using either Maven or CU-SeeMe audio, especially where bandwidth usage is a major consideration, which for me is all the time.