yes, not only that. reading through the linux
uvc driver i found the following comment.
---
/* Built-in iSight webcams are completely broken. They implement most
* of UVC 1.0, but the Apple engineers decided to use a completely
* different packet format, although the video data is in YUV. Were
* they on crack or just lazy ? As the hardware is 8051-based, it
* might be interesting to write an open-source firmware.
*
* Instead of sending a header at the beginning of each isochronous
* transfer payload, the webcam sends a single header per image (on
* its own in a packet), followed by packets containing data only.
---
http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/linux-uvc/linux-uvc/trunk/
so, i guess, isight wont be one of the goals for uvideo(4).
sorry for the noise...
Unix Fan schrieb:
http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/#footnote-4
{"iSight webcams require a proprietary firmware that can't be redistributed. Tools
to extract the firmware from the MacOS X driver and load it into the device are available
at http://bersace03.free.fr/ift/."}
-Nix Fan.
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