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I have a MacBook Pro 15" 2.5GHz
When I run Windows 8.1 Enterprise on BootCamp the webcam is not working properly, hardly at all, in fact.
In all apps I tried (e.g. Skype) the image is "heavily shaking" (it looks as if each frame is taken with a different angle, even though that doesn't make sense because there is only one camera).
Then, when I close the app, the camera isn't "released". That is, even though I close the app (or at least try to), the green light next to the camera stays on, and the camera becomes unusable. At least in one occasion I even had problems rebooting the computer after this.
The driver for the FaceTime HD Camera seems to be up to date - 5.0.22.0

Have you checked other applications for Camera behavior - the native Windows application works very well?
If the driver is installed, Skype can misbehave in many instances. What is the version of Skype on Windows?

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