Creative WebCam

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Creative WebCam

Does anyone have any tips on getting a Creative WebCam Pro to work on my G4 Powerbook? This camera is left over from my old PC and I would rather get this working than shell out for an iSight camera.

thanks

12" Powerbook G4, G5 Quad, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Sep 12, 2007 8:38 PM

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Answer 1

Pismo 900

Level 4

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Sep 12, 2007 10:37 PM in response to Grashuepfer

Try out these two resources. It helped when I was trying to do the same. I posted it in another thread I made earlier this year, but at this juncture, don't have time to go retrieve it (sorry):

1) http://webcam-osx.sourceforge.net/

2) http://www.ecamm.com/mac/ichatusbcam/ **

**this is software to let you use USB Cams with your Mac. It's not a USB Cam you buy.

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EZ Jim

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Sep 12, 2007 10:50 PM in response to Grashuepfer

Hello Grashuepfer

If your "Creative WebCam Pro" is one of the newer ones that supports the "UVC" standard for USB webcams, you can use it with your PowerBook by updating to to the latest version of Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4.10.) Support for all UVC webcams is built into OS X 10.4.9 and later with no need for additional software.

If your "Creative WebCam Pro" is NOT a "UVC" model, try the iChatUSBCam and appropriate "macam" driver that Pismo 900 recommends above.

EZ

Jim

PowerBook 1.67 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.10) G5 DP 1.8 External iSight

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Answer 3

Grashuepfer Author

Level 1

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Sep 13, 2007 4:26 PM in response to EZ Jim

Thanks for all your suggestions. I will give them a try this weekend.

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