I am very happy with iUSBCam. It works as advertised, with a Hue Clique USB webcam and 10.4.11. The developer is helpful and prompt responding to questions. I had asked about the licensing, and the developer informed me that my license is good for all of my personal Macs, which makes the low price even better. The trial period is one week, which is plenty of time to determine if it will work.
A driver must also be installed for the USB camera to work. I got mine from the webcam manufacturer's website- the most recent driver instead of the outdated one that came with the CD. If your camera manufacturer doesn't have a Mac OS X driver, check out Macam, a free USB webcam driver that is available here at MacUpdate.
For some reason, the feature that IMO makes iUSBCam a necessity, is not even mentioned in the description above. It enables older Macs that don't meet the requirements set by Apple to broadcast video in iChat and other IM programs. I installed it on a 400MHz G3 iMac and a 466MHz iBook SE, and it works perfectly. Also enables an external iSight to work on older Macs that fall under the requirements. Prior to iUSBCam, the iSight would power itself off after showing a few seconds of video- enough to know that the computer was not the problem. Because of iUSBCam, I can use my USB webcam in iChat, or my FireWire iSight on all of my Macs. Fantastic!
I am very happy with iUSBCam. It works as advertised, with a Hue Clique USB webcam and 10.4.11. The developer is helpful and prompt responding to questions. I had asked about the licensing, and the developer informed me that my license is good for all of my personal Macs, which makes the low price even better. The trial period is one week, which is plenty of time to determine if it will work.
A driver must also be installed for the USB camera to work. I got mine from the webcam manufacturer's website- the most recent driver instead of the outdated one that came with the CD. If your camera manufacturer doesn't have a Mac OS X driver, check out Macam, a free USB webcam driver that is available here at MacUpdate.
For some reason, the feature that IMO makes iUSBCam a necessity, is not even mentioned in the description above. It enables older Macs that don't meet the requirements set by Apple to broadcast video in iChat and other IM programs. I installed it on a 400MHz G3 iMac and a 466MHz iBook SE, and it works perfectly. Also enables an external iSight to work on older Macs that fall under the requirements. Prior to iUSBCam, the iSight would power itself off after showing a few seconds of video- enough to know that the computer was not the problem. Because of iUSBCam, I can use my USB webcam in iChat, or my FireWire iSight on all of my Macs. Fantastic!
iUSBCam 2.2.4 seems to work with Leopard 10.5.2 and iChat (current) but usability is very poor. THere are problems with the application apparently, as this is being written to syslog 10-20 times a second: 3/19/08 8:20:43 AM iChat[803] *** Break on _NSLockError() to debug.
Which means the ahrddrive and cpu are going like mad.
Working and usable are two different things. :)
This program is a ten! I have a 24 inch iMac with the built in camera. I really like the ability to use a USB web cam as it gives me the ability to sit and relax instead of sitting fixed in front of the iMac. Gladly bought the program minutes after using it.
How come I cant get more then two people in a video chat(me and another person)?Is it because I havent registered yet?Great software though,I dont know why apple didnt include support for usb cameras.If the camera works in quicktime I dont understant why it wouldent work in ichat(probably because they want people to buy the isight).Very usefull software,alot cheaper then a 150 dollar isight.
Well installed Tiger 10.4 tonight and webcam doesnt work in ichat anymore. When might we see a update or am i not doing something right?
great app love it.
Great piece of software. Does the job, opened up the world of video conferencing for USB webcam owners. There are few cheap alternatives to the Apple iSight which are really worth paying for. Get yourself a USB cam and away you go. i recommend the Logitech QuickCam 4000. Worked a breeze. Picked one up brand new on eBay for £21!!
There are a few flaws with this software. It is quite processor intensive when running iChat. I am not sure that this is down to iChatUSBCam but I have my suspicions. Also, if you have your energy saver setting not set to 'Highest' you get an annoying message whenever you start iChat which you cannot choose to 'stop showing in future'.
Overall its best to get this software and a USB webcam than fork out £120 for an iSight!
Just tried this for the first time with a Toucam Pro and IOXperts drivers on my Dad's Dual 533 G4. Tried two video chats and both worked perfectly. The Toucam Pro was always a great cam, if ugly, so I'm chuffed my Pa can put it to use now.
It does eat alot of CPU cycles but then it is having to convert the USB video feed to a DV feed on the fly isn't it?
My new iSight didn't work on an old iMac, old iBook, and B&W G3 used my my sister's and mom, respectively (Apple restricts usage to 600Mhz+ G3+ systems).
This program worked immediately and without any fuss.
Beautiful.
I was so exited to see that some people out there finally gave the opporutnity to people who owned a USB web-cam to use iChat AV. Thank you! However, I have to say that even if I downloaded the iChatUSBCam 1.1.2 version more than four (4) times, it never worked! It also seems like it actually messed up my Fire Wire connection, for I cannot use my Digital Camcorder anymore with my iBook. So, sorry mates, it was a good idea, but it did not really work! I do not advice anyone to install iChatUSBCam 1.2.1 at all.
I have a 15"FR iMac w/ all of the very latest upgrades. I have a QuickCam (USB).
This ap freezes my iChatAV upon loading. I must either force quit it or unplug the webcam which then causes iChat to "unexpectantly quit". If I plug in the webcam after iChat has loaded, iChat doesn't recognize any cam connected.
In short: Useless!! Even worse than useless after all of the hoops you must jump through after downloading and installing other software just to make this one work. Thank goodness they both come with un-installers!!
I think I'll scrape up a few $$ and buy myself an iSight for Christmas and maintain the high quality of products on and in my Mac, rather than taking a PC-user-like route and duct taping cheap aps all over it, risking having a similar future of problems and troubleshooting a hard drive full of crapware, making $150 seem like a cheap investment.
The reason I as an iSight user would use this app is to do some color correction, focus control, and white point balancing. Unfortunately the demo doesn't allow you to access this part of the app. So what am I supposed to do? Pay before I try? I dont think so.
Well, every since Panther came out, I have been waiting for this. However, after installing it, I'm not as happy as the performance with 10.2.x. Needless to say, it has performed fairly well, but the new release has an odd, what I could call a bug in it. Granted, I don't have a plethora of web cams to test it with, but my USB cam is fairly new (2003 model), and I have a about a 80-100 pixel green bar to the left in the preview window.
re: what are they waiting for..
man, i bought chatusbcam before i got my os x panther release. what a waste of money. bet they aren't able to release a proper version.... maybe the new quicktime doesn't allow those kind of hacks.. well, if ecamm would at least post ANY status on their website. but we're all sitting in the dark here.
PLEASE SAY SOMETHING!
SAME PROBLEM!!!
All used to work beautifully...but I think it was after an Apple Upate...possibly when I went to 10.2.8 that this software began to NOT work!
I have reinstalled everything, but I am thinking that this is something that may have been caused by APPLE somehow during a software update.
Best Regards,
-Asagai
I have jus installed The Panther 10.3 and Application Enhancer (Updated for Panther ver. 1.4.1) and Your iChatUSBCam ver. 1.0 2 -
I am using iChat 2.0 (ver 145).
My camera is a Logitech QuickCam Zoom, and it works with WideoPlayer, so the Camera is compatible with Panther.
BUT NEVER THE LESS, THE CAMERA DOES NOT WORK WITH ICHAT, WHAT CAN I DO.
Jan Dalsgaard - Aktiv Data, Denmark
PS It is a problem, as I have written about Your program (3 pages) in my book about Panther, and now I have hundreds of customers ringing me asking for an explanation.
Answer URGENTLY Please.
Jan
Great one!!! purchased it straight away. Works great with my cheap little web camera. Saved me a fortune buying a new camera to work with iChat AV. Well worth it!!!
Since there is no way for the developer to respond directly to you, it doesn't make any sense to post support related things like questions to MacUpdate. Please send any problem reports or questions to ichatsusbcam@ecamm.com instead of posting them here. You will most likely get a response within a few hours. If you post them here there is now way to get an answer to you.
This is AWESOME. I am SO thrilled that this was made. I used this with my D-link C100 cam with the macam drivers, I did have to reboot to work, but once it was there it worked like a charm! I love the video quality in iChat and had no idea it would look this great. Beats the socks off of using Yahoo for video chat!
A billion thanks to the Developer!
brilliant!! It works, and works well! I'm using a digital dream l'espion camera - which you can pick up for less than $60 or £40ukp. Good picture, everything peachy. :D
I'm Impressed!!
I was really dubious whether this would work as webcams are notoriously difficult to manage. and whoomp! there it is! pukka. it all "just works" like any mac should/does! thanks for making this, its going to make my mac that bit more exciting to use!
Works quite fine with my old philips USB Vesta and Macam as driver.
Even if the video isn't very smooth, despite a 512 DSL connection, it's a great job, sorry Mister Jobs, I won"t bye your iSight :-)
I followed the instructions and it works just fine. The Video is not as fast as iSight and the picture quality will depend on the kind of USB-cam one uses. - iSight ? no thank you !
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4.75
11 July 2003
Version: 1.0b1
THIS WORKS! It makes my USB video camera recognized in iChat, but am not able to make video chat to my buddy, maybe still need faster internet connection. ATM on dail-up connection. At least I don't have to spend $$$'s for diff cam.
doneagle
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