What your after is a usb or firewire capture card. This will do what you want, but I'm not sure about what ones work well under osx or not - on the pc end, haupauge are pretty good.
On 15/12/2009, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote: > OSX will recognize a number of video input devices so if you get one it > likes then you can use it with any number of apps, including iChat or > Skype. I haven't tried it recently but somewhere I have a box that was > ntsc or s-video input and firewire output which the Mac would recognize. > From there I could pull video into iChat, iMovie or the like to convert > old analog sources like VHS. This was years ago so I don't know if they > even make the box anymore. Ahh, here it is in a review from 1999: > > http://www.insanely-great.com/reviews/da1.html > > Today you can probably do the same thing by piping your analog source > into a basic firewire video camera. Probably some similar USB2 cameras > which do the same thing out there as well. > > CB > > joe quinn wrote: >> maybe the subject's wrong, but, I've got a device for my windows >> machine that will allow me to connect a video source to it, then >> broadcast that source over Skype or msn or some such as if it was a >> webcam... anyone know of nay device for the Mac that will work? >> >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.