Change gain/disable auto exposure of a camera connected to OS X (Macam)

Hey,
I connected a philips spc 900nc usb webcam to my mac by using macam.
I need to turn off auto exposure and to increase gain but these options arnt available via quicktime.std.sg.SGVideoChannel.settingDialog() as I was used to it with the iSight.
Any suggestions / samples/ links ?
Manuel

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    ### Automatically load driver modules depending on the hardware available
    .ifexists module-udev-detect.so
    load-module module-udev-detect
    .else
    ### Use the static hardware detection module (for systems that lack udev support)
    load-module module-detect
    .endif
    # Take Independent HP into use.
    load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:0,2
    All this really is a work-around for two bugs:
    Call it a bug or a missing feature, but it does not look like the Alsa snd_hda_codec_via driver allows to disable auto-muting.
    Before the change to default.pa, PulseAudio already allows me to switch between two output devices - "analog output" and "analog headphones". "Analog headphones" however does the same thing as "analog output" and plays sound on the external speakers and not the headphones. I suspect that the PulseAudio module-udev-detect detects both Alsa devices but wires them wrongly.
    The above still doesn't give me what I originally asked, i.e. sound on both speakers and headphones at the same time, but I realized that I don't really need that. I just need a way to switch on speakers occasionally while my headphones are plugged in.
    Last edited by fax (2013-03-24 23:06:27)

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