Camera in use with another app. BUT IT ISN"T

Wonder if anyone has got this problem. I installed Tiger and made all the updates. Since doing that my ichat keeps telling me my camera is in use with another application and asks me to quit it before I can use it with iChat.
As I only have iChat open at the time (& finder of course) then there is nothing to quite and I can't get iChat to recognize the camera. its a panasonic 3CCD and worked perfectly with Panther.
Any suggestions please

I used to have this happen, but not recently. I still don't know the cause, but have found an answer that works most of the time for me, and a few others I V-C with.
Close all apps that can involve a webcam. Disconnect the FW cable from either your camera or the Mac, momentarily, then reconnect it. That should launch iChat, and have the camera again recognized by iChat as available.
Not very elegant, but works most of the time for me.
My iSight use to have mic problems in Panther. Often after the first launch of iChat, the mic wouldn't function. Unplugging the FW cable would cure that as well. This has not happened in Tiger.

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I am having an issue with my iMac G5 2.1GHz with iSight built in.
I tried to iChat AV tonight after months of not using it. When I opened my own video window it says "Your camera is in use by another application."
There are no other applications open in the dock other than Finder.
Same results with Photobooth. The message reads -- Photo Booth cannot open because the camera is in use by another applicaton. Close the application using the camera, then try opening Photo Booth again. < OK >
I searched this forum and tried the following:
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Also, the camera shows up under USB under system profiler. The IR remote also shows up on the same bus, and the remote works just fine.
The green light next to the iSight is never on.
I switched to another user and experience the same problems, so it does not seem to be user settings.
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Thanks for the note. I saw that Apple KB article #93216 that basically tells you not to have any other applications running that use the camera, which I do not. Also, I have Classic installed, but it is not running as I hardly ever use it.
Since my original post last night I have tried several more things, with absolutely zero success.
One unique thing that I thought would work (and it sort of did) was to add Photobooth to my Startup Items under the Accounts tab of System Preferences. Unlike iChat AV, Photobooth will not even open if the built-in iSight is not available. So, I thought, let's see if Photobooth will open at Startup and perhaps take over the camera before whatever is taking it over has a chance to do that.
Sure enough, this trick worked, although the video screen was blank. On a second time the video screen showed erratic thick lines like it was starting to pass the video data through and then was stopped. Again, my iSight is recognized by Apple System Profiler, so the computer knows it is there and is getting power, etc. As soon as I quit Photobooth and tried to reopen it, I received the message again that the camera was in use by another application.
My next steps, when I am able, are to try to boot off an external firewire hard drive that should have an older saved backup of my system, from when the camera was working. I will also download the combo updater as you suggest, MGW, and apply that as I understand that to be a sort of remedy for any number of problems.
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Camera being used by another app?

Hey out there,
I've got a powerpc G5 w/built in isight & I'm getting the "your camera is being used by another application" error. I've seen other posts regarding this, but they all seem to be with older macs & external cameras. Any ideas, reload QT?
Thanks
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