| Weblog: | Want to Do More with an iSight than Chat? | |
| Subject: | iSight Drivers? | |
| Date: | 2003-06-25 06:41:11 | |
| From: | anonymous2 | |
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Derrick, I'd like to know if Apple has open drivers for iSight, or is it proprietary Cocoa stuff? As a developer, I want to develop open source software for iSight, but do not want to be locked into anything proprietary with regard to driving the iSight. For instance, what if I wanted to drive iSight connected to a device running Linux or (cough cough Windows XP) on an Intel machine that has a Firewire card? Can I do it, or is iSight for Macintosh computers only? Hopefully Apple has learned great lessons from the success of iPods being multi-platform (I.e., both Macs and Wintel machines work with iPods). Can the same be said for iSight? Can I develop for it? Thanks Derrick for any info you have on this subject!
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iSight Drivers?
2003-06-25 14:46:15 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
I know this is probably an ignorant questions...but, is there any possibility of using the iSight with the iPod? Not now, since I know there's no software. I was just wondering if it's physically possible.
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iSight Drivers?
2003-06-25 09:01:56 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
Anyone know how to extend the range of a firewire device, other than multiple hubs/repeaters or expensive optical cable? I read on Apple's firewore info that using common ethernet cable extends the range from 4.5 to 100 meters, but I haven't found such cabling commercially.
Linda
wsu
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RE: iSight Drivers?
2003-06-25 07:41:13 Derrick Story |
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Hi Don,
I have good news for you, but not much detail yet. Yes, the drivers are "open" and Apple is very much hoping that developers will enable the iSight on other platforms. I don't have the details about this, but will keep my ears open and try to find out more. If anyone else has spec on this, please post.
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iSight Drivers?
2003-06-25 07:40:25 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
I remember reading yesterday that the iSight is a standard IIDC device that will work with any supporting application. It could serve as a recording given an appropriate application. Currently, I have a preset in QuickTime Broadcaster that issues dummy network information but records the stream.
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I have several sip clients on my Windows XP laptop, and if I could send from my PC AIM client this magic AIM message, I could then start up an AV session with one of my sip clients. Even if I can't send the magic AIM message from my ordinary PC AIM client, there are open AIM clients that will surely let me send the magic message.
Anyone know what it is?
thanks