After some cajoling by a colleague I broke down and got an iSight. It’s very nice and the experience on the Mac is flawless. My gripe? No Windows microphone drivers. The camera works under XP with generic 1394 camera drivers, but the microphone is unrecognized. Supposedly Apple has released the specs but I can’t find them on Apple Developers site.
So c’mon Apple, it’s a couple microphone drivers. I know iSight sales are pretty flat. I’m sure you have some Windows drivers in-house somewhere, so how about releasing ’em. You’ll sell alot more iSights.
Or, you windows device driver hackers, how about figuring something out. I’d be willing to pay up to $20 for microphone drivers so I could use the iSight with XP.
there’s a project on sourceforge, working on isight audio-drivers for linux, so i guess there is hope for windows drivers to follow.
anyhow, i’d love to know how you got the camera working, i could not find generic firewire drivers for cameras (only controllers, network etc).
there’s a iSight project on sourceforge, working on linux drivers. so there’s hope, that windows drivers might follow.