Webcam Support

2006-04-19 Thread Paul Chong
I was told  that Skype on the iMac does not support webcams. Isn't 
there any webcam

available for use as such?
Paul



Re: Webcam Support

2006-04-19 Thread Christian Kotz
the problem is not the webcam device itself but the Applications you  
want to use a webcam with.
The only webcams you can use in Mac OS X have to be firewire based in  
order to be recognised. This means only an iSight or a firewire  
camcorder can be used. The IOXio group I htink they call themselves  
have written a USB driver to support a large assortment of  
unsupported USB webcams but as I said initially, It's not the device  
that's the problem, its application support for them.
Currently iChat and Yahoo Messenger are the only Applications to  
support Webcams and Yahoo does it without Audio streaming. Well known  
instant messenger services like MSN Messenger Mac still haven't  
included webcam support but lets not complain I mean their latest  
release did include display picture support :)


Regards Christian
On 19/04/2006, at 8:46 AM, Paul Chong wrote:

I was told  that Skype on the iMac does not support webcams. Isn't  
there any webcam

available for use as such?
Paul


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