ISight no more working !

I used iChat AV 3.1.4 (v432) and AIM 4.7 for video chat many times until last Satuday. On Sunday, when I opened iChat, oh surprise, the camera near my photo was gone and replaced by a telephone sign. What happened ?
When I look at iChat preferences I can read that "no camera is attached to this computer" (it may not be the exact terms in English, because I use iChat in French).
I have two Firewire ports. Using either port does not make any difference. The green light in my iSight turns on for 2 or 3 seconds and gets off.
I must say that on saturday night, I used iPhoto in a Slide show and at the end, my Mac has frozen and I had to restart it.
1- Is the restart may have change some parameters so the camera is not working anymore ?
2- Is the camera in problem ? When I ask in "About Mac" informations about Firewire, I read "Bus Firewire: until 400Mb/s". There is no information about my camera ?
3- I readt different information in the forum and in the Apple support, but I found no response to my exact situation. Is anyone having any suggestion ?
Thanks for help
eMac Power PC G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Thanks Ralph for your help, but my iSight is still not functional.
When I go to the menu « About Mac » and choose « More information » about Firewire, I read « Bus Firewire : ». There’s nothing after ; usually it was written « Bus Firewire : until 400Mb/s ». Is Firewire in problem ?
Here are some other questions to help you, and for me, to understand :
- when iSight is connected to a Firewire port and we ask information about this port, in « About Mac », is the information supposed to be « this port is used by a camera or any device », like we see in iChat preferences ?
- my iSight was perfectly functional until last weekend when my computer has frozen when I was using iPhoto.
o 1- does iPhoto uses QuickTime ?
o 2- is it possible that this crash has damaged the camera or the Firewire port ?
o 3- is it possible that the crash has changed the settings of QuickTime or anything else meaning problems for Video-chat ?
o 4- When I go to the iChat Preferences, I read that « There is no camera attached to this computer » even if the green light on my iSight is always on. Does that mean that the camera is connected but not functional ?
o 5- When you suggest to other users to set quicktime streaming settings to 1.5Mbps, what does that mean. On my french version of Quicktime, in the quicktime streaming settings (Diffusion en continu), the speed is on « Automatic » (I have a choice of « Cable 1 Mbps » and the « Instant reading » is between « immediately and short delay ». I'm using Internet by cable high speed. Does these settings have to be changed ?
I’m using french software (Quebec, Canada), so it may happen that the terms I use are not exactly what you have on your software. I did not find any discussion forum in French in the Apple site for iChat. Am I wrong ?
Thanks again
Marcel
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This is my first post here at the forums although I’ve been browsing them for some time now.
I hit the trifecta of problems so I wasn’t sure where exactly to do this post. Hope you can help.
Latest Updates:
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Quick Time 7.3.1
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• NOTE: all stopped working at the same time after my latest software update so I believe they are related in someway. No 3rd party apps were installed in the mean time.
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4. Restarted the i-pod several times.
5. Restarted the MacBook several times.
6. Reinstalled (Apple Mobile Device Service).
7. Restarted the MacBook in safe mode.
8. Attempted to pair the remote with the MacBook by holding down the Menu and Next/FFWD button.
9. I reset the System Management Controller (SMC) several times.
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11. Deleted & reinstalled the latest version of Quick Time.
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13. Went to System Preference > Account > Login Item, and uncheck all the applications.
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1. Although once connected to another PC the i-pod is immediately recognized by i-tunes.
2. I-pod only charges once connected to the MacBook.
3. The i-pod, IR receiver & i-sight all appear under the USB section of the System Profiler.
4. Front Row can still be run using the keyboard short cuts.
Can you please come up with any suggestion other then the ones tried above to solve these issues.
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Welcome to Apple Discussions, hishamonline
Very well done Topic! Thanks for such a good and thorough description.
You have landed in iSight discussions, and I see that you have tried many of the things that users can do to correct iSight problems. It can be very difficult to try to troubleshoot multiple devices simultaneously, so I will first give you my suggestions for your iSight issue. It is possible that something you try for iSight will fix one of your other problems even if it does not fix iSight. To keep the process as simple as possible, whether a given suggestion fixes iSight, one of your other problems, or noting at all, I suggest you continue to concentrate iSight until we get that resolved. Then we will move on to any other remaining issues.
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(4) whether your iPod touch, Photo Booth, and Remote ever worked correctly
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bizeulg wrote:
I have the exact same problem. My external iSight which worked well till last week suddenly only shows a phone icon in iChat. In Skype, it tells me there is no Camera as in iChat. The problem remains the same whether I quit or not Skype...
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