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    Parallels, WinXP and iSight

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by wave, Jul 13, 2007.

  1. wave

    wave Notebook Virtuoso

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    Hello,

    Has anybody made the Macbooks Pro iSight work with Parallels and WinXP. Under devices I turned on the build in iSight and WinXP found a new device. I tried installing the drivers from the bootcamp driver CD but it didnt work. Also after quiting Parallels iSight does not work in OSX anymore. I need to reboot to make it work again.

    Reason for wanting it is mostly Skype and MSN Messenger Video chat. Skype for Mac has horrible voice quality. When I run windows Skype in the VM the voice quality improves noticably. Also tried aMSN under mac and it claims to have a webcam option. However I tried this and it just never gets connected. I got MSN Messenger 7.5 (windows) on the other side. With bootcamp and WinXP it all works perfectly.

    Any ideas? Thank you!
     
    wave, Jul 13, 2007
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  2. M@lew

    M@lew Notebook Evangelist

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    Works for me fine. How doesn't it work? Do you get an error?
     
    M@lew, Jul 14, 2007
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