Creative Live! Cam Optia

My mother recently received one of these cameras for her birthday. It was purchased because it advertises itself as being UVC compliant. I understand any OS after 10.4.9 has UVC camera support however she has no joy getting a picture.

I am her tech support on this but she is in Scotland and I am in Australia. Any help you can give me will be gratefully received.

She has a Mac Mini single core running OS 10.4.10.

Thanks,

Grant

MBP 2.2Ghz 15", Mac OS X (10.4.10), iMac G3 500MHz, G4 Tower 2Gb Dual 1.25GHz

Posted on Sep 7, 2007 5:39 AM

55 replies

Defcom-UK

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Sep 29, 2007 11:13 AM in response to larguinho

Looks your should work without a driver http://webcam-osx.sourceforge.net/cameras/camera.php?id=516

So try rebooting your mac.

Sep 29, 2007 11:16 AM in response to Defcom-UK

Yes I did. It gave me +"status: no camera"+

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Sep 29, 2007 11:19 AM in response to larguinho

Try running the cron scripts, download this and run it http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/5856/macjanitor once running click on the lock and then click on "all tasks".

Tony

Sep 29, 2007 11:35 AM in response to Defcom-UK

Did already a reboot. Trying right now MacJanitor. Will give an update in a whlie(still running a blue & white bar).

Sep 29, 2007 11:41 AM in response to Defcom-UK

Still nothing. This is what you see(or don't see) in Skype preferences:
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/8793/skypeoptiaqr2.png

Defcom-UK

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Sep 29, 2007 11:55 AM in response to larguinho

Link does not work.

Sep 29, 2007 12:08 PM in response to Defcom-UK

Strange. I Just tried the link on anoother computer(Toshiba laptop). Working o.k. here.

I tried also in AIM IM and it gives me a black background(blue ring light again lights up). If you unplug the Cam, it says: +No camera encountered+

Really strange. I appreciate all the help Defcom. Thanks. Will keep searching & trying. If something comes up(an image at least), I will post it.

Sep 29, 2007 1:21 PM in response to Defcom-UK

On BTV Carbon I also get a black screen with the Cam(blue ring on again). It does say that it's a Live Optia Web Cam, but thats it, no picture.

Sep 29, 2007 2:23 PM in response to Grant Crosthwaite

Tried also with Skype Beta Version 2.7.0. Same thing(blank screen).

Sep 29, 2007 3:17 PM in response to larguinho

I have looked at a great many forums looking for an answer to my original question on this. The general consensus seems to be that this is a software problem associated with the Intel version of OSX. The camera works as advertised on non-Intel macs. I am guessing we have to wait for Apple to fix this but I wouldn't hold your breath.

d_boy

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Sep 30, 2007 6:24 AM in response to Grant Crosthwaite

What about the new Creative Live! Cam Optia Pro? Does anyone know if it would work on my PowerBook?
Thanks!

Sep 30, 2007 10:34 AM in response to larguinho

Make sure the System Preferences > Displays is set to Millions.

6:33 PM Sunday; September 30, 2007

Oct 3, 2007 12:58 PM in response to Grant Crosthwaite

Just bought one of these after seeing the review in Macworld (UK).
Same problems as everyone else, but on a 17"G4 PB. So it's not only an Intel problem.

System Profiler - Ok; Skype - recognised but no image; iChat with iChatUSBCam demo - ditto; QuickTime Player (Pro) with macam.0.9.1 - ditto; macam demo app says 'no camera'.

David

d_boy

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Oct 4, 2007 1:11 AM in response to David Ledger

I just bought Optia AF and it works. No problems at all. The camera performs quite well. I'm one satisfied customer.

Oct 8, 2007 6:08 AM in response to d_boy

The Optia AF is a different webcam. In the adverts it is black / dark grey. The straight Optia (as shown in the Macworld UK review) is white.

David

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