iSight/iChat: camera in use by another..

[ccogar]

I've seen some other references to this here and elsewhere, but none of the recommended fixes worked for me. The weird thing for me is that the iSight works fine in PhotoBooth and Quicktime Player (Pro), but not in iChat. One thing I noticed is that when I access it from iChat, I get the following error message in Console:

12/14/07 4:07:16 PM iChat[1483] Error loading /Library/QuickTime/QuickTimeUSBVDCDigitizer.component/Contents/MacOS/QuickTimeUSBVDCDigitizer: dlopen(/Library/QuickTime/QuickTimeUSBVDCDigitizer.component/Contents/MacOS/QuickTimeUSBVDCDigitizer, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Library/QuickTime/QuickTimeUSBVDCDigitizer.component/Contents/MacOS/QuickTimeUSBVDCDigitizer: mach-o, but wrong architecture


Anybody have any idea on this? Do I need to update iChat or the iSight driver? Not sure what to do.

 

[Giaguara]

Try deleting these two preferences first

(on your Userfolder/Library/Preferences: )
com.apple.iChat.plist
com.apple.iChatAgent.plist

restart iChat after.

Are you running 10.4.? or 10.5.? ?? Depending on the exact OS, I might consider installing the system or the Combo update for the architecture (e.g. 10.4.10 update for Intel or PPC or the same for 10.5.1) since it really is saying it can't find the correct piece of code.

Any Quicktime or Garageband additions? Maybe those could cause it too