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After Upgrading to 10.9.2 Isight is not working

Hi,


i just updated Mavericks to 10.9.2 on my Mac Book Pro (3.1). Now Facetime and Photo Booth is not working anymore.

Facetime is not working at all and crashes. Photo Booth tells me that isight is not connected.


The Isight is still visible in the System Monitor.


Any Ideas? It is really frustrating, beacuse i am not able to use facetime anymore.

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Feb 25, 2014 11:57 AM

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Feb 28, 2014 10:19 PM in response to Antonio Tejada

Update: After launching Skype things are back to normal (iSight works in Messages now). Thanks to all the smart people here that figured this out. Seems a bunch of developers need to update their apps,


Old post below.


I've uninstall AirParrot, AirServer, and iDisplay from my iMac. Still no iSight cam in Messages. External iSight (Firewire) works in Messages. Thanks for any suggestions.

Mar 2, 2014 3:39 AM in response to Licabettus

Hi everybody.


I have a 2009 iMac 3.07GHz running Mavericks. I have upgraded my OS up to 10.9.2 (Build 13C64).

Like a lot of folks, the build-in iSight has stopped immediatly to work....


No more FaceTime, bye bye Skype... And Photo Booth.

Restart, creation of a new User, one complete night of rethinking... and find a SOLUTION !


In my System Preferences, I deleted some Prefs Panes: Flash Player, Flip4Mac, Air Display, GoPro and Perian.


And the iSight works again !


But wich Pref Pane created a conflict ? I will never know...


I have reinstalled all Prefs Panes... And works fine

Mar 2, 2014 4:40 AM in response to Vinz Durel

Vinz Durel wrote:


In my System Preferences, I deleted some Prefs Panes: Flash Player, Flip4Mac, Air Display, GoPro and Perian.


And the iSight works again !


But wich Pref Pane created a conflict ? I will never know...

I guess you didn't actually read this whole discussion before posting, as we'd already found the following programs to be responsible:

  • Air Display
  • AirParrot
  • DisplayLink drivers


If anyone identifies any other culprits, please post here.

Mar 2, 2014 6:57 PM in response to Antonio Tejada

I've also fixed my issue. In my case, the culprit is the "Virtual Driver" of Splashtop Streamer. After I've click on the "Uninstall/Remove Driver" box, and rebotted my system, not only I'm able to access my iSight camera from Skype and Facetime (I've gotta launch Skype first to get it to recognise the camera, and Facetime works thereafter), I'm also no longer seeing the VDCAssistant constantly crashing and trying to relaunch and crashing again, and the CrashReporter hog in Console.


Attached is the image of my Splashtop Streamer options after unstalling the Virtual Driver and rebooting.


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Mar 3, 2014 3:02 PM in response to VinzZz

I delete all apps mentioned above,Airdisplay, Airparrot, iDisplay, and didn't work.


Before a clean install (i really need one), but is a pain to me reinstall everything.... I thought I should try one more thing.


Than I remove VMWARE and PARALLELS. (only the app, not the virtual machine - keep the machine until appear a solution...)


Solved! Everything back to normal. iSight back to FaceTime and Skype.


Is a try to people who already try everything.

After Upgrading to 10.9.2 Isight is not working

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