[Proxi]

Has anybody tried to use iSight on an old iMac with less than 600 MHz ?

What does it look like with 400 MHz G3 ?

[Safari]

Why did Apple cripple iSight/iChat AV as to not let it work with G3's under 600MHZ? My pismo (500MHz) has 2 Firewire ports and does Quicktime broadcast and DV editing quite well?
I am very disappointed.

[subego]

Originally posted by Safari:
Why did Apple cripple iSight/iChat AV as to not let it work with G3's under 600MHZ? My pismo (500MHz) has 2 Firewire ports and does Quicktime broadcast and DV editing quite well?
I am very disappointed.

AFAICT they didn't cripple it. Your CPU has to encode/decode to MPEG-4 on the fly. This takes way more horses than DV, where the encoding/decoding is handled by a chip in your camera.

I've edited DV on a 225Mhz...

<drum roll>

604!

For those young'uns out there, that was the Moto chip before the G3.

If it was as simple as pushing DV around I could use iSight on my computer from 1996!

[sideus]

That means the iSight is a software based camera! (Paying homage to the software based modems )

[Mastrap]

Originally posted by sideus:
That means the iSight is a software based camera! (Paying homage to the software based modems )

No, the iSight is just a straightforward camera. You can use it with tons of applications. iChat AV is the culprit, using very processor intensive compression technology.