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iSight is a webcam, both external and internal, developed and marketed by Apple Inc. The external iSight was connected to a computer via a FireWire cable, and came with a set of mounts to place it atop any then-current Apple display, laptop computer, all-in-one desktop computer, or flat surface. Currently iSight camera are

The iSight is programmable via QTKit.

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Using QCView and iSight to capture image

I have a QCView that loads a Quartz file which gives you iSights feedback (basically like a QTCaptureView) Everything displays fine The button simply takes a snapshot using the following simple lines of code - (void)takePicture:(id)sender {NSImage…
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What process uses my camera (Macbook)

How to detect what process uses my cam on MacOS? I get an error when I want to take a photo: DVFreeThread - CFMachPortCreateWithPort hack = 0x206fde0, fPowerNotifyPort= 0x206fd30 FATAL: setting data channel failed - cam busy/not connected ?
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OSX Lion - iSight camera terminal usage triggers wake from display sleep?

I have 3 Macs - a MacBook Pro 15", MacBook Pro 13" & MacBook Air 11". The 15" stays home all the time, the other 2 are used for mobile usage, so I want to use the 15" for remote video capture or snapshots when I'm not home. I've been using a…
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Isight Camera + OpenCV + VMWARE

I'm running VMWARE on OS X to run Windows 7, and Visual Studio 2010. I'm using OpenCV to do some image and video processing software. I want to try and start doing processing to real time video. I'm running the code from: Real Time Canny I change…
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Capturing frames from macbook isight with PIL

I'm trying to write an app using python and PIL that involves processing frames from my macbook camera. Is there an easy way to capture frames from the iSight for use with PIL without installing too many libraries? I've seen a few questions on SO…
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iSight/FaceTime camera not working after upgrade

right now i am running the OS X Yosemite beta 10.10, after upgrading my OS X i lost my camera, i tried everything in the forums, but nothing helped. i can't FaceTime, or Skype or anything. normally i would take it in to an apple store, but the…
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Is there a way to test HTTP Live Streaming via an iSight camera?

I'm working on an iPhone app that will use HTTP Live Streaming. Using Apple's provided tools (particularly mediafilesegmenter), I'm able to successfully segment and serve an archived video. Now I want to test Live Streaming stuff. I don't own any…
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QTCaptureView shows black screen

I have an app that I want to just show a preview of the iSight camera. I am trying to use QTCaptureView to accomplish this. I have the QTCaptureView window linked in interface builder to the correct variables in my class. I can see the green light…
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MBP Retina Isight and FFmpeg

I try to reach the video stream from my brand new MacBook Pro Retina (Mavericks) to use it as an input in ffmpeg (and stream it again via RTMP). I've tried different solutions in other stack overflow's topics but none seems to work : wacaw -L…
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In need of basics of AVFoundation to capture images from device camera

I want to know that how can we capture image using AVFoundation framework, I have managed to activate the camera and my Cocos2D view is over the camera and is tranparent. I have tried using some tutorials but I am unable to capture the images( Still…
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Accessing iSight via Java on OSX

So after doing a lot of digging around here, and elsewhere, there is no good, simple, CURRENT way to grab images from iSight in Java. So first of all I would love if someone could point me to a good way to do this, and OpenCV does not work for Java…
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What is the best way to pass a jbyteArray from (objective-c) JNI to Java?

I'm currently retrieving image data from an iSight camera and I'd like to hand it over to Java for processing. I originally tried to put the data in a jbyteArray and return the jbyteArray. This works once per process. Calling the native function a…
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Why is "node output" error occurring in isight?

I used abaqus and loop component in isight. But It's not working. I tried changing the element type from CPS3 to CPE4R. But the error continued to occur. If you know how, please let me know. Thank you.enter image description here
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What does it mean to ask isight to wait for the output file?

I used Abaqus in isight. But it's doesn't work. So I need your help. enter image description here How can I solve this error? I haven't been able to solve this problem for days. Answer me, please. Thank you!
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How can we run a script through Abaqus using OS Command in ISight?

I am trying to perform an optimzation task using ISight. I need to run a Python script through Abaqus for the latter. However, when using the Abaqus Application component, some parameters cannot be selected. I am therefore using the Data Exchanger…
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