Wecam installation problem on a iMac

[timmoore46]

G4 running OS X 10.4.11


We have a Macally IceCam 2 webcam plugged into a Powered usb 2 hub which is usb 1.1 compatible attached to an external power supply.

iChat sees the camera but says

'Your Camera is in use by another application'.

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I've no idea how to find this 'other application' or run any test to see if the camera working !

Utterly stuck !

Any thoughts very very welome !

Tim

 

[Sambo110]

Does 10.4.11 have Photo Booth? Or do you have Skype or aMSN to test it? Or maybe even a website like http://www.chatroulette.com/, it will let you see a preview of your cam.

 

[timmoore46]

Does 10.4.11 have Photo Booth? Or do you have Skype or aMSN to test it? Or maybe even a website like http://www.chatroulette.com/, it will let you see a preview of your cam.

I've not found Photo Booth. It has Skype but I thought this version didn't do Video on an iMac.

I'll check.

Many thanks for responding.

Tim

 

[timmoore46]

I've not found Photo Booth. It has Skype but I thought this version didn't do Video on an iMac.

I'll check.

Many thanks for responding.

Tim

Not found anywhere to download Photo Booth

Found webcam tweaker and that just shows black !

: (

Tim

 

[timmoore46]

After a re-boot Webcam Tweaker shows a nice image but iChat still says this:-


iChat sees the camera but says

'Your Camera is in use by another application'.


So why can one application see the camera and use it but iChat can't ?

all we are trying to do is establish a video link including speech which another member of the family,

Skype does not seem to want to play on the video side. Not sure how to fit a microphone to the iMac yet but typing works fine ans can see a video coming back from the relative. As 200 miles is the distance between us we really want to crack this problem !

Any thoughts very very welcome !

A very puzzled,

Tim

 

[Sambo110]

Try closing everything, properly closing them. Right click, quit. See if anything is open by pressing command+option+escape, and if it's still saying that when everything is closed, then I don't know.

 

[timmoore46]

Try closing everything, properly closing them. Right click, quit. See if anything is open by pressing command+option+escape, and if it's still saying that when everything is closed, then I don't know.

Done that, iChat/video/video Preview comes up with the same old message.



Tim

 

[timmoore46]

For iChat this seems to have solved it !

http://www.ecamm.com/mac/iusbcam/




Tim