Help, isight screen is black

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Help, isight screen is black

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When I push the button in DVDpedia to scan in my DVDs using my isight, the resulting isgiht screen is black. I'm positive it's not a light issue. What can I do?
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I just wanted to add that I'm running an external isight camera connected to a G5 running 10.4.6.
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I bet it's because I have a Miglia AlchemyTV card installed. I'm not using the card, so that's probably why the screen is black. Otherwise I'd get the TV in the isight window, right? I'm speculating on this based on a previous report in the bruji.com "bug report" forum.
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mpatterson1 wrote:When I push the button in DVDpedia to scan in my DVDs using my isight, the resulting isgiht screen is black. I'm positive it's not a light issue. What can I do?
Is the iSight on? (Turn the front of it so that the white iris disappears.) I know that sounds stupid, but it has been the problem for some people.

Another potential source is that another application is using the iSight. Only one application can use it at a time. iChat AV is the usual suspect. If it is on and using the iSight, DVDpedia cannot. (Depending upon which version of DVDpedia you get, you may get a message that it can't find the iSight.)

Of course, it may be your video/TV card. That's one I know nothing about. Try disabling it and see what happens.
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