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*iSight on Windows*

+External iSight+

+Windows XP and Vista will autodetect an external iSight camera as “1394 Desktop Video Camera”, but no specific iSight driver exists for Windows. Nevertheless, most Instant messaging clients are capable of using video from the camera and adjusting brightness and other settings (the image will appear to be overexposed until the settings are altered). Windows is not capable of receiving audio from iSight’s internal microphones, as no Windows driver exists.+

+Technology blog Gizmodo reported in July 2006 that a bounty was offered for a driver that would enable the external iSight's microphone to function on Windows XP. Users were asked to contribute funds that were to be won by the successful developer. The driver's source would then be open to the public for porting to future Windows versions. After waiting 5 months with no submissions, Gizmodo canceled the competition, returned all donations, sold the iSight and bought a MacBook Pro.+

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISight#iSightonWindows

Umm,

I wonder on that Boot Camp issue of the Drivers for the audio/Mic Input listed in that WiKi page

Defcom may have an External iSight and a Windows Boot to test it on.

I am sure though that the External is too old for Apple to have made a driver to be included as All Intel Macs that have cameras have the Internal iSight



8:56 PM Friday; June 19, 2009

Running Parallels with XP and 7 does not see the firewire iSight, sorry dont have bootcamp partition.

SO you have not run the Boot Camp assistant to see if the Drivers are On the created CD ?



6:59 PM Saturday; June 20, 2009

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No mate, as i dont want a windows partition to find out.

Stick the disk in

Step 3: Install the Boot Camp Drivers for Windows After installing Windows, install Mac-specific drivers and other software for Windows using your Mac OS X Leopard installation disc.

It's sort of "hidden" in the Optional install Folder



8:25 PM Saturday; June 20, 2009

Tried that still cant see firewire.

Hi Defcom,

Thanks for trying that.

It at least proves that an External iSight can not be a Mic - and in some cases may not be recognised as a Firewire device.



8:19 PM Saturday; June 20, 2009

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Not in parallels anyway, might do in bootcamp.

On a PC does ot not do video and not audio.

I know you can use the Drivers in Parallels for other Apple Hardware.

Did you not get a New Hardware Found message ?

This can be used for the Track pad and Internal iSight (or at least that is my understanding of the situation from iChat and iSight posts).

There again in the original Boot Camp the drivers were created in the Boot Camp Assistant and that was the way I did it.



9:42 PM Saturday; June 20, 2009

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Ralph Johns (UK) wrote:
Did you not get a New Hardware Found message ?

No

OK.

I thinks we have enough ecxtra info for the OP.



6:52 PM Sunday; June 21, 2009

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