"There is no connected camera"

Thanks Madams, this solved my issue. Great explanation as well, I think in my case, creating a signature in Preview is what hung the cam.

I have the same problem wthe a Macbook 5,1 using 10.6.8 after the last abdate the cam is not anvalebal.

Do you have a idea way?

It happened to me to. Update SMC reset. Kill all..... nothing happened

Anything else?

I just wanted to say the Terminal command actually worked for me, so thank you. I won't have to reboot do reset the SMC every time I want to use the camera anymore.

Hi madams end

I'm not an english native speaker and I think I don't understand what "sudo killall VDCA assistant" means. How can I do it? Is it a document or what?

Thank you

Thank you very much for your answer, but apart from pressing the enter key do I have to write my password or something?

Thank you again

No

Hi pennbank and thank you again. I typed sudo killall VDCAssistant and I was asked a password (which one?), but I could not write anything else. Any idea?

Thank you a lot for your time

agree 100%

This worked for me .... Skype got the camera.

Madams end. It works for me too. Thank you

It solved my issue, thanks for provide help

It worked for me, thanks... Reboot also did. thanks

How did you find these daemon files?

I've tried everything I can think of, including reset PRAM and SMC, and sudo killall VDCAssistant. nothing worked

Exactly the same going on here.

Nothing is working from any of the above posts to enable the webcam on my iMac for any app.

Any further ideas please?