Digital Camera Use

My frend has a kodac easyshare camera, and im wondering if we can use it to video chat.....please can anyone help or give me a link to that page that tells which cameras iChat AV suports? thanks NEways
powermac G4 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Hi Bruce,
I have a Kodak DC4800. This has a USB ouptut for the sitlls it can take and a cable and seperate output of a TV signal (Can be PAL or NTSC) which is an RCA connection at the far end.
I then use a DV Converter to change the Signal to DV for iChat.
The pic is of the "live" framing view on the LCD of the camera. I have found no way to output it over the USB connection. I do not know if later cameras than mine have changed this, or if the EasyShare Dock will do this.
IF the camera saves Video or outputs in Mpeg format then the USBCam thing may work.
Ralph

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