iChatAV with DV camera

I just bought my daughter an iSight camera so we could video chat while
she's away at college. I didn't buy one for myself because I own a JVC
MiniDV firewire video camera. About six months ago I tried to see if I
could chat with her with me using a video camera, so she could see me
but I could only hear her. The iChat AV application wouldn't let me do
that. However, I was at least able to use my camera. I could see myself
and take a picture for my Buddy Picture.

Now, I can't use my camera. I get messages like the following:

Your camera appears to be in use by another application. Please quit
any other application that might be using the camera.

Of course, I don't have any other applications running. Note that I have
started up iMovie and verified that it can still use my camera.


The main difference between then and now is that I have upgraded to
Tiger and I have upgraded to QT 7 Pro. I have the latest OS. I'm on a
Powerbook G4 15".

I read on the Apple discussion board that someone had some success
solving this problem by uninstalling QT. I just set about doing that and
can't really find any way to do that easily. Just how does one uninstall
QT?

I would also appreciate any other help with this.

Thanks.

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John S. Heaney voice & fax (401) 438-4288
I don't train in Aikido to protect myself from the world,
but to protect the world from me.

John Heaney <> wrote:

>[...] Now, I can't use my camera. I get messages like the following:
>
> Your camera appears to be in use by another application. Please quit
> any other application that might be using the camera.

John,

I got this message recently also. I had just added a firewire scanner to
my setup. I found that if I disconnected my scanner iChat worked well
and the "busy" message disappeared. I don't know if it is necessary to
disconnect or turn off all firewire devices. I have some external
firewire HDD's, but don't recall if I have had them running while using
iChat or not.

Hope this helps.

Jerry




>
> Of course, I don't have any other applications running. Note that I have
> started up iMovie and verified that it can still use my camera.
>
>
> The main difference between then and now is that I have upgraded to
> Tiger and I have upgraded to QT 7 Pro. I have the latest OS. I'm on a
> Powerbook G4 15".
>
> I read on the Apple discussion board that someone had some success
> solving this problem by uninstalling QT. I just set about doing that and
> can't really find any way to do that easily. Just how does one uninstall
> QT?
>
> I would also appreciate any other help with this.
>
> Thanks.

In article <heaney->,
John Heaney <> wrote:

> I just bought my daughter an iSight camera so we could video chat while
> she's away at college. I didn't buy one for myself because I own a JVC
> MiniDV firewire video camera. About six months ago I tried to see if I
> could chat with her with me using a video camera, so she could see me
> but I could only hear her. The iChat AV application wouldn't let me do
> that. However, I was at least able to use my camera. I could see myself
> and take a picture for my Buddy Picture.
>
> Now, I can't use my camera. I get messages like the following:
>
> Your camera appears to be in use by another application. Please quit
> any other application that might be using the camera.
>
> Of course, I don't have any other applications running. Note that I have
> started up iMovie and verified that it can still use my camera.
>
>
> The main difference between then and now is that I have upgraded to
> Tiger and I have upgraded to QT 7 Pro. I have the latest OS. I'm on a
> Powerbook G4 15".
>
> I read on the Apple discussion board that someone had some success
> solving this problem by uninstalling QT. I just set about doing that and
> can't really find any way to do that easily. Just how does one uninstall
> QT?
>
> I would also appreciate any other help with this.
>
> Thanks.

In case anyone was following this, my problem was solved when I upgraded
to QT 7.0.1 recently.

--
John S. Heaney voice & fax (401) 438-4288
I don't train in Aikido to protect myself from the world,
but to protect the world from me.