Apple Mac iSight on Chatroom?

21 Sep 2006

Anyone have any suggestions as to how i can get my iSight camera to work with the chatroom? Somewhat of a novice when it comes to cameras and chat rooms !
Camera works fine in iChat (in that you get a video preview). Closing iChat turns off the camera. Do i have to put account details into ichat settings? If so what are they?!
Am i being really stoopid ?
Likely.
Cheers
andyabc9

21 Sep 2006

Check here http://www.swingingheaven.co.uk/swingers-forum/viewtopic/88005.html
If that don't help at all then i have no idea as i have very limited knowledge about Apple Mac
Tony wink

21 Sep 2006

we have a G5 and have never found a cam to work in the chat room yet, its summat to do with the program used to run the chat room that the macs don;t understand, i'm not very thecnical my hubby explains it much better than me lol

22 Sep 2006

I had a suspicion it might not ! But thanks for your replies anyway..
andyabc9

26 Sep 2006

The built-in iSight on my MacBook works fine..

26 Sep 2006

As the chatroom is a Flash movie then having the latest FlashPlayer for mac, , should help.
Don't worry about the web-site being German, it should work.
Also follow the tip on the top sticky item about giving Flash access to your cam.

27 Sep 2006

iSights work fine on here. Not a hardware problem but the software smile

29 Sep 2006

Quote by j4mie
The built-in iSight on my MacBook works fine..

yes it would be we can't all afford to go out and buy a new mac just to get the built in web cam lol

30 Sep 2006

It's not the built-in one being referred to. It's this... ..Iit's a plug-in one but high-quality with autofocus and CCD (excellent in low-light) and not CMOS (2 for a tenner in Homebase).

30 Sep 2006

attach the isight as normal, check the settings / picture in video preview in ichat, close ichat, log in to the chatroom of your choice and in the main windownof the chatroom ctrl click to bring up context menu select settings which will show the video / audio prefernces of the chatroom, click the webcam icon and from the dropdown list choose firewire camera and your isight should be picked up no probs I think by default its set for usb which of course doesn't work natively with macs for webcams unless you use extra drivers and stuff and involves a lot of faffing about

3 Oct 2006

Odd one here. The inbuilt cam on my mac book was working fine in the rooms, but has all of a sudden decided to be uncooperative. Most strange - works fine in all other contexts.
Any thoughts? Will keep fiddling........in the hope of sorting it and getting back to the kind of fiddling I enjoy rather more
smile

5 Oct 2006

Probably the flash settings, apple-click anywhere in the chatroom window, then make sure your i-sight is chosen as the video source and flash is set to allow it to be used in the little pop-up menu that appears.
For the benefit of other Apple users, and a certain somebody who I told this to months back but clearly hasn't sorted out their Macs yet wink

if your cam doesn't work with SH, try the drivers avaialble from ioxperts, they cost $19, but there is a trial that cuts out every 30 minutes for free, which is good for peope who want to check if it works (or ones who only go into chat for a 5-minute hamster-stroking session I sppose! :-) )

9 Oct 2006

Thanks Mister D,
Changed the settings and it worked for a bit, then stopped again.......I suspect I have some conflicting going on somewhere.
Still, my cam not working may be a blessing to some biggrin

20 Oct 2006

Hi all
Here's a quick fix for anyone with an intel mac and running Flash 9 or OS X 10.4.8.
In chat right click/control click and go to settings, click on the webcam icon and change it too USB Video Class. Click close and you're working again.
The 10.4.8 upgrade included Flash 9 and intel macs maybe powerpc macs are a bit funky about Flash 9.