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iCam Support / Re: iMac, multiple cameras

« on: August 30, 2010, 08:16:11 PM »

I have been having this same problem.  If I start one camera, the other one just shows a white screen in iCam, black screen in other programs.  My machine is a Mac Pro.  I unplugged all usb devices except the cameras.  I tried plugging both in the front, both in the back, one in the front and one in the back.  I did restart the Mac every time I made a change.  I checked to see that both cameras were getting enough power using system profiler.  I can't get two usb cameras to work at the same time even using other programs (skype, ichat, image capture).  Only the first camera will show video.  Sometimes, the second camera will say "camera already in use".  However, on my Mac Mini it works with no problems.  I plug two cameras in, start iCam and iCam copy, select cameras, everything up and running within 2 minutes.  I'm not sure what the problem is.  I'm going to keep working on it, but I could really use some help.

i have an iMac i7 27" and i am having identical problems you are having... if u find something, please let me know...

thx

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iCam Support / Re: iMac, multiple cameras

« on: August 30, 2010, 04:01:11 PM »

This sounds like the issue that some users have had getting more than one webcam to function at once on the same USB bus. (If you do a forum search for "usb bus" you will find a number of threads discussing it.)

It seems like there are sometimes hardware restrictions on the number and types of USB devices that can be active at any one time.

Are you able to run two other webcam applications (like Photo Booth and iChat) simultaneously, choosing a different camera in each one?

You could try different USB ports, choosing No Audio in the iCamSource Audio drop-down lists, or removing any other USB devices from the computer to see if that has any effect.

No, it seems that i can not use multiple webcam apps and selecting different webcams.  i tried that with iCamSource and photo booth.  it seems that one will affect the other.

i can try our suggestion...

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iCam Support / iMac, multiple cameras

« on: August 29, 2010, 08:22:58 PM »

Hi, 

I am trying yo use icam with multiple web cams. One is the default cam on iMac and the other is a gear head face tracking web cam. I created multiple multiple isource as your site recommended. But only one camera works at a time. I setup one Isource and it works. But then when I setup the second isource and select the second web cam source, there is no video. Can someone help.

Thx