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?
>>
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