Eye Toy

rendevousrendevous
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in iPod + iTunes + AppleTV edited January 2014
I got an Eye toy camera for my PS2 last weekend and I was wondering if it would work on a Mac? I plugged it into a spare USB and opened iChat but was unable to get a picture...



Does anyone know of a work around - as this camera is really cheap - yet the picture quality is great...



R.

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 3
    othelloothello Posts: 1,054member
    ichat only supports firewire cameras. but there is a hack to let it work with usb ones. do a search on version tracker for it...
  • Reply 2 of 3
    chopper3chopper3 Posts: 293member
    Two things, firstly there is a patch "out there" that lets iChat use USB cameras and it works very well, secondly the eyetoy camera has on-board compression/processing - that's why you can have a 640x480 15fps video over usb 1.1 - the camera does alot of the work. So I doubt it could ever work with QT, certainly not without very specific drivers.
  • Reply 3 of 3
    ringo20000ringo20000 Posts: 48member
    Has anyone gotten this to work with iChat? I'm thinking about getting an eye toy and it would be nice if I was able to also use it with iChat.
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