Built in iSight camera will not show on iChat or PhotoBooth

When logging on to these applications I get the same message " Camera being used by other application" but cannot find any others that would be using it. How can I get around this problem? Thanks anyone?

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Any Suggestions?

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Built Flash Video and will NOT show in Hosted Environment.
The files generated work on development machine. I posted the same
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Nickels55, I appreciate the response. Here are the
interesting facts. I had my hosting provider apply the mime type
and restart IIS. No flash video. I have Vista x64 Ultimate with I
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and then it WORKED. Yeah! But I still don’t have it working
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I would like to try another angle here. Again I am using the
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1.) I can send my video to someone to post on their Win2003
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2.) Someone send me a short 3 second video that they produced
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3.) Any other ideas? Surely someone in this universe has used
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No, unfortunately that did not help. I did the following...
1. See if the issue is application-specific. - Nope. Camera is not recognized in any of the apps that it should be recognized in, I tested iChat AV, PhotoBooth, ImageCapture, and iMovie.
2. See if the issue is user-specific. - There's only one user account on this Mac, so I couldn't do that.
3. Find out if the computer recognizes the iSight. I went into System Profiler and checked the USB profiler, and the camera does not show up.
4. Reset SMC or PMU. These just looked like different ways of restarting, which I did multiple times.
I have also run my Software Updates (on OS 10.5, which I did with a clean install from an OS 10.5 DVD by the way) and still no camera. This problem started happening with the original OS 10.4 (which it came with) and I was hoping a clean install of the OS would help, but no.
I'm wondering if resetting the PRAM might help, but I can't remember those keys you hold down while restarting (was it Apple-Option-P-R ?) or if that is just reaching waaaaay back to the pre OSX days.
Here's the kicker though - if I plug in a FireWire iSight camera, all is well. I'm really hoping that the camera isn't jsut dead, but it's starting to look that way. Would Disk First Aid or maybe DiskWarrior help?

Built in isight camera no longer showing up or recognized

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Hi ckauf49!
Thanks for the post.
The camera may not show an image on the LCD screen if the camera is not set for live view shooting. However, it will always display the menu on the screen if you press the MENU button. If it does not, then the camera will need to be serviced. To start this process, you'll need to complete a Repair Request on our website.
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The camera will not load so nobody can see me. I can see them. I have reinstalled skype same problem. Camera works with Facetime.

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ISight camera will not connect...

...from my network anyway! I have firewall turned off on my MBP, my wireless router settings have firewall settings off AND my ISP (DSL) router firewall settings are off. It works on my network at the office but any time I try to connect (one-way or otherwise) from home, no dice.
Anyone have any tips?

Hi Ken,
In this case the modem itself is routing to your LAN.
This will almost certainly mean that the ports needed for iChat will have to be opened. (See Rj's first post re Firewall and Ports)
By default most domestic devices that route have ports up to port 1024 open. This allows common apps like Web browsing and mail to work "Out-of-the-Box".
iChat uses a total of 29 ports for iChat to work with AIM, Jabber and Bonjour.
They also use two interent protocols as well.
TCP 5190, 5220, 5222, 5223, 5298
UDP 5060, 5190, 5297, 5298, 5353, 5678, 16384-16403
More on why and which does which here http://www.ralphjohnsuk.dsl.pipex.com/page3.html
In your Network Preferences it will list a "router" IP towards the bottom. This should be the default IP to use in a Web Browser to access the modem's set up pages.
This page http://portforward.com/routers.htm may list your device. By clicking it you will come to a list of Applications and Games that you can also click on.
This will lead to a specific set of instructions for that APP.
Currently that site does not have the right ports for iChat (it used to).
However at the top of the page it will give you instructions on how to access the device with default User ID and Passwords as well as the IP.
Next we have to know if the 192.168.xxx.xxx IP that you computer gets is given out from the modem by it doing DHCP.
(you have one level of DHCP to the ISP that by the nature of the modem stops there)
IF the modem is doing DHCP to the LAN then we have to make sure it or the Wireless router are not doing it.
iChat does not like it when two devices on a LAN are doing DHCP (The nature of routers is that they allow the passing of addressing data through. This creates subnets.
Modem to Computer via router
Router to computer.
As the router is "closer" you only see this IP in the Network prefs. In some circumstances you may want to use two IPs, but iChat is not one of them.
If we know the Modem make and Model and the same for the wireless router we could point you at more direct info.
The goal is to have only 1 DHCP server and one instance of NAT
Network Address Translation (NAT) is how the modem and router move data arriving on one IP number to the number(s) on the other side of the device. There are about 6 main ways of doing this which in iChat's case can lead to problems betewwn either end. Port Forwarding, Port Triggering and DMZ are all use NAT
Now unfortunately differnt routing devices do different things when you change the settings.
Turning Off DHCP in an Apple Airport device makes it a Wireleess Access Point. It allows any addressing from the modem to control the LAN.
Most other devices, if you turn Off DHCP, require that you set Static addresses.
Static addressing limits the data from one device to the next.
To acheive the goal of avoiding NAT being done twice you may need to use Static addressing with UPnP (a non NAT way of opening the port) between the devices.
Modem <-> Router <-> computer
This is two subnets but they are closed and independent of each other.
I know this is a lot of info. It can be shorter if we know what devices you have.
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My built in isight camera is not working since loading mavericks

Can anyone help me please? I can't seem to get the isight built in camera to work on my 27'' imac since I installed Mavericks. First noticed this when using skype but it also doesn't work on facetime either.
Any suggestions.
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Nick

briannick wrote:...I can't seem to get the isight built in camera to work on my 27'' imac since I installed Mavericks....
If restarting Mac does not resolve the problem, use Disk Utility in OS X Revovery to repair your startup disk.
If the camera is still not working properly, follow Apple's http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090 suggestions.
(Over time, Apple has changed the built-in camera's name on newer Macs from "iSight" to "FaceTime" and then to "FaceTime HD." Regardless of the name of your Mac's built-in camera, the same info and troubleshooting applies.)
If the problem the problem continues after using all the above, the last thing you can try is to reinstall OS X 10.9.
If that fails, too, contact Apple or an Apple-Authorized Service Provider for service.
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Built-in iSight Camera

My built-in iSight camera does not work. When I pull up iMovie, Quicktime X (10), or iChat is says camera not connected. PLEASE HELP!

My Built-in iSight Camera wrote:
My built-in iSight camera does not work. When I pull up iMovie, Quicktime X (10), or iChat is says camera not connected. PLEASE HELP!
For any iSight problems, first try restarting the Mac. If the problems persist, try all relevant suggestions from:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090
If your iSight problem still occurs in more than one app and more than one user account, the reset suggested there often restores proper function of inbuilt iSight.
However, if your built-in iSight still does not work after carefully following all the suggestions in the "How to Troubleshoot iSight" article, and if iSight does not show as a USB hardware device in your Mac's System Profiler utility, yours is most likely a hardware problem. In that case, contact Apple or an Apple-Authorized Service Provider for service.
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Built in isight camera not working with flash

My built in isight camera on my macbook works just fine in photobooth and in skype or ichat.. but just in the past week or so, it will not work when im on websites that use flash. I've seen some threads that say that I need to go into settings and make sure that the camera chosen is the USB. When i go into flash settings, the only options are Google1, Google2, or Built in isight. It doesn't work with any of them. Does anyone have any idea how I can make it work again?

zeppelinfan1234 wrote:
I don't have google add ons. I followed the path but i have no Google folder in Application Support. Any other suggestions?
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http://support.apple.com/downloads/MacOS_X_10_5_8_ComboUpdate
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(2) After applying the 10.5.8 Combo, if you are still having problems, download and install the latest Flash player compatible with your system:
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On this page
http://support.apple.com/en-us/TS2472
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