FaceTime HD camera not working at all?

Recently, I opened up photobooth and tried to use the built in camera on my 13 inch macbook air and while the green light on the camera was on, all that appeared on the screen of photobooth was the rotaingloading symbol. I got in april 2013, so it shouldnt be breaking down already. I don't use that camera very often, so I have no idea when it stopped working for sure, only that it happened after OS X Mavericks. I've tried force quitting everything else, restarting, logging in to a different user, and my computer doesnt have any of the symptoms that might require an SMC reboot. My warranty expired about a week before I became aware of the problem, and if possible, I'd love to have a solution that wouldn't cost me anything. Let me know if you need any more details. Thanks (:

I'm having the same problem on a Mid 2012 MacBook Air that had previously been working just fine. I used FaceTime all the time.
My symptoms are exactly the same as yours; green light, but no camera image.
I have a question for you.
If you select the Apple menu, then about this mac, then click more info, then click on system report.
When the system report appears, click on USB. There are going to be several USB hubs, keep opening them (Clicking the little triangle) until you find an entry that says
FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Click on that entry.
From there you'll see detailed infor about your camera. It should look similar to the list below.
Product ID:          0x8510
  Vendor ID:          0x05ac  (Apple Inc.)
  Version:          80.25
  Serial Number:          û ž—ÞÄpõ]v™j
  Speed:          Up to 480 Mb/sec
  Manufacturer:          Apple Inc.
  Location ID:          0x1a110000 / 3
  Current Available (mA):          500
  Current Required (mA):          500
What I'm curious about is the Serial Number:   You'll notice mine has no numbers, just characters. These characters change at almost every reboot of the computer.
A wokring camera has a string of numeric values.
I think this too is a symptom of the failure but I want to be sure that I'm not the only person seeing this.
Thanks.

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