Anyone using Logitech Quickcam 5000 Pro with OSX??
Is anyone successfully using a Logitech Quickcam 5000 Pro with their Mac? The specs say a WinTel machine is required, but I'm wondering if the camera/microphone functions will just plug-and-play on a mac even without the Logitech software...
As for application compatibility... the camera is recognized without me needing to install a driver when using Skype, Yahoo Messenger, QuickTime Pro, and HackTV. However, when I try to use it with iChat, iChat always claims the webcam is busy - from all the other posts it seems iChatUSBCam should allow the camera to work with iChat. I personally haven't tried it because I use Skype to video chat with my GF (who uses a PC and the PC version of Skype). It's a little choppy, but I think it's because I'm on cable and she's on DSL. Also, I'm willing to live with some choppiness to use a $60 webcam instead of paying the ridiculous $300 it takes to buy an iSight on fleaBay nowadays.
Power Mac G5 (2 x 2GHz) NOT dual-core Mac OS X (10.4.8)
Just bought the Logitech Quickcam Pro 5000,
it works out of the box with:
- OSX 10.4.9
- plug it in a computer USB-port (not a hub)
- Make sure you buy the LATEST version of the pro 5000 (the one with a Windows Vista sign on the box). This camera is USB Video Class compatible
- iChatUSBcam is no longer needed for ichat in OSX 10.4.9
The Pro 5000 is one of the cams with two incarnations. The original model didn't have UVC support and the newer ones do. They look identical otherwise.
(UVC support is what you need to use it on the Mac.)
You can see on this Logitech webpage that there are two models and only the second model number has UVC support.
I was at a Mac reseller and they recommended this camera to me as a good alternative to the iSight. I have to agree that it is! It worked without any drivers... but I have experienced a strange occurrence.
On occasion, when chatting with someone using a low-end MacBook, the video of me is shrunken inside of a black box. So if the video chat window is say 640x480, the actual video of me is only 320x240 in the center of the window, and the rest is black. This doesn't happen when i've chatted with old iBook G4s, or even other black MacBooks...
I have a Stills camera that outputs PAL TV signals and run it through a DV converter.
Part of this process brings up a similar "Edge" to my pic.
I would guess it's part of the iChatUSBCam process that effects certain processors that may not have some of the abilities that later machines have. (Quartz, Multithreading ?)