Finally got my VX-6000 working with Skype, iChat (using iUSBCam) and QuickTime. All you need to do is download "SN9C202 (Phase out)" driver from Sonix , install it and edit /Library/QuickTime/Sonix SN9C201 WebCam.component/Contents/Info.plist . There are some dots but better than nothing. Take a look at the pic.

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A little HOWTO.

What did you change? Both pics are displaying the same information. Do you get this information from the System Preferences?

well these pics were made after i edited the file. just open original file after you install it and compare it to the pics and you'll see the difference. device and vendor id's are hex converted to dec (microsoft has 0x045e in hex and lifecam is 0x00f4) just take a look at http://webcam-osx.sourceforge.net/cameras/index.php and i knew which one sonix id to change to microsoft thx to Microdia driver for linux

Excellent, thanks for clearing that up. I'll give it a try.

No luck. Any other ideas?

try to put this Click to view attachment in /Library/QuickTime/

I'll let you know how I get on.

i have realized that this driver should work with other webcams too so i have created a little HOWTO.

One question. How do you install the drivers from sonix ?
Because when i download it i got a file called SONIX.
But there is no extension.

go to http://www.sonix.com.tw/sonix/family.do?f=3

click on SN9C202 (Phase out)
this will take you to another page where you can find SN9C201/202_v1.01.0001_MacOSX (1790KB) undel big "Downloads" on right side. i'm using safari.

or maybe just use this http://www.sonix.com.tw/sonix/download.do?d=1989,2




if you download driver from sonix you'll get quicktime component and WebCam Monitor.app
maybe all you need is patched quicktime component but i haven't tried that

hello frantisheq . i've tried ur method . my cam is buit in . and it's hp webcam here is the info.

Version: 6.04
Bus Power (mA): 500
Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd.
Product ID: 0xb016
Serial Number: SN0001
Vendor ID: 0x04f2

i installed the sonix driver . and webcam monitor does work . i just need to change fram setting to less then 5 each time i wanna use the webcam monitor program. i did installed the patch you provided. but for my cam i searched everywhere i couldn't find bringe + sensor combination. so i just picked HV7131R which i think it was a close call. i added the Ven and product id to HV7131R webcam saved plist and everything was ok. and when i clicked ichat . the iusb showed a new webcam detected. with this name HV7131R webcam. but when i tried turning the cam on in ichat . it didn't turn on the cam's light or it didn't turn the cam on at all. although it does turn on when i'm using the webcam monitor application from sonix. so i don't know, if you can give any advice i'll appreciate it. and sorry i typed to much.

oh one more thing . did you try macam . if you look inside macam source package which comes with the installation. inside a folder called cameras . you'll see all the supported drivers and a file called example.m . that file shows how to add ven and product id . i tried doing it but it got a bit confusing so i stopped .

note: my cam works in yahoo and a couple of other programs. like murcary for msn messenger. and camtwist .

sorry can't help you but maybe it's because it is built in. i think that iUSBCam works only for USB cams. but on my acer laptop builtin webcam is shown as USB device so it should work i don't know. and i was playing with macam but it was giving me something like USB communication problem so no use.




if you have used SN9C201+HV7131R maybe you should try SN9C202+HV7131R. or vice versa.
don't forget to change device id you have used before

have any idea if this works on Microsoft LifeCam VX-1000 ?

Cheers

Hi Frantisheq (or anyone else actually)
Do you know if and how I can change the VX-6000 settings that appear in the .plist where you change the
I need to change resolution and white balance, tried a few settings but that didn't change a thing. Changing the Prod ID and vendor ID right there did make it work.

Thank you,

Pat

sorry can't help you with that

Just wanted to say a big "thanks" for the howto with this. Works a treat!

thx

hi,

somewhat of a noob, but please forgive me if i sound it.

I must ditto a previous request regarding Microsoft's LifeCam VX-1000, i recently purchased it, due to the price and so far, not so good.

the cam is displaying a psychedelic strobe effect, which seems to die down (i've read about it elsewhere), also the picture is very grainy, and seems to be looked into a zoomed position.

I've tried different drivers but still the same effect.

any help, advice or suggestions would be great. I have read that there are solutions in progress for macam, so i may have to be patient, and i can understand that.

saddly i don't understand why there is such an issue with webcams and mac, considering the fact that other 'computer accessories' seem to not be as much of a problem.

thanks in advance.

looks like it should work. i'll try to patch the driver for you if it's possible.

EDIT: VX-6000 is based on SN9C201 but VX-1000 is based on SN9C105R. anyway i'll try to fix the SN9C105R driver.

OK here it is. Not sure but it should work. VX-1000 is a combination of Sonix sn9c105r+OV7660 so first install Sonix SN9C102p driver

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and then extract the fixed quicktime component and put it in /Library/QuickTime. Overwrite the original one.

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Let me know if it works and don't forget to delete macam component or any other driver that you have tried or it may conflict with this one.

hi, thanks for the fast reply.

i tried it and so far it still isn't working. results are the same.

i was wondering about conflicts, do i need to get rid of possible conflicting files off my computer, or just in the quick time folder?
i did have some flip4mac files in the Quick Time folder too, i moved them to desktop to get them out, but still no change.

i have been trying to figure out the driver issue for several hours now, since yesterday when i got the cam but i am a rookie.

i'm kind of surprised too, since i had better success in the past with a fairly older logitech cam which no longer works.

once the 'psychedelic' lighting tends to ease up, the picture is still really grainy, and is really sensitive to light.

i'm pretty sure i did everything right.

hi,

still no luck on my end. I'll assume that there may be some fixes if and/or when a new version of macam comes out.

for the price of the cam (vx-1000) i got it at, i don't think i'll just return it, but i may try to get another cam for the meantime, depends tho, since i've seen most cams at/or above 40$ (can), i payed 20$ (can) for the vx-1000.

thanks again.

These work a treat. I'm using the MSI StarClip cam and it works perfectly in Skype.

I got my VX-1000 to work on my Mac OSX Leopard. Here are the steps:

1 Download the Sonix driver as stated above.
2 Install the driver as per instruction.
3 Open Library/Quicktime/Contents/Info.plist
4 Search for idproduct 24827.
5 Change idproduct to 247 and idvendor to 1118
6 Look for the <asicPSnsrPwrDnInv> key and change the value to 0
7 Save changes and close file

Make sure to delete macam or other drivers/components too.

Have fun!

same for me, except my product id is b022, have you found any solution?

Hey Thank you and the thread stater.

Here is mine Microsoft LifeCam VX-3000 Driver same as VX-1000 just need to change Product id

Everything works fine audio and video even photobooth worked out awesome. Have fun

Try this website for Sensor+Bridge

This is a great post. thanks. I ran into a few minor differences, but it works great even so.

When I opened Info.plist, there was no idproduct 24827.
There was an idproduct already set to 247, with the idvendor as 1118.
There were a number of occurrences of "<asicPSnsrPwrDnInv>", so I changed all their values from 1 to 0.

I don't know why this case was different.
Maybe other cameras won't work. Oh well - the one I have does.

In any case, it worked! Thanks!

driver for vx-3000 works with skype but not with ichat

Would be good to count with a snapshot of vx-3000 videoconference quality using this solution.

Also, does require tuning other options like moving the RGB sliders ?

I followed these instructions with my VX-1000 and was able to get video perfectly, but I am not able to get the built in microphone to record anything. I've tried with the WebCam Monitor program that came with the Sonix driver and also with the Google Chat video settings.

Does anyone have the VX-1000 microphone working?

Thanks!

P.S. As a hint, and as someone mentioned above when following these instructions the key <asicPSnsrPwrDnInv> appears many times (~20). The first time I tried I only set the first instance to 0 and got no picture out of the webcam. When I tried again I set all instances of <asicPSnsrPwrDnInv> to 0 and thats when I got video.

I've been trying to follow this post from the top and get my LifeCam VX-1000 working on my mac. When I download the SN9C102p and install and then go to /library/quicktime the only thing in there is the Sonix SN9C102p webcam.component there is no where else to go can't go further to Contents/Info.plist . to change the settings there. Can anybody help me?

I tried downloading this but there is nothing in the quicktime library doesn't go onto /contents/

I've since tried macam which I can finally get a picture with and sound but i's not a quality picture it's crap can only make out shaddows and it's flashing bright colours like strobe effect. Can anyone help me. I have the LifeCam VX-1000

I have finally got to the step where I'm trying to edit the info.plist but mine looks nothing like what you say it should. I can not find any product id and all that I'm using a LifeCam VX-1000

Please help. trying to get this set up so my wife can talk to her family in another country.

How did you find the contents folder??? I don't see it anywhere!

NVM!!! I found the solution, check this thread. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=161761

HOWTO is up again http://frantisheq.extroverthost.com/?p=27

When I download the SONIX drives on snow leopard, the installation keeps failing. I start up the installation and when it's writing files, i get the message that the installation fails and that i need to contact the software manufacturer... Anyone has any ideas?

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When I download the SONIX drives on snow leopard, the installation keeps failing.

I'm having the same problem with snow leopard. I'm using the sonix SN9C201 driver with a VEHO VMS-004 USB microscope. It worked fine under 10.5.8 but 10.6 has killed it.

Strangely, the sonix 'webcam monitor' app seems to work fine - except that the setting for LED ON/OFF is greyed out. Unfortunately it's stuck 'off' and you need it on most of the time!

I seem to remember messing about with plists some time ago with the older VEHO VMS-001 USB microscope, using the sonix driver. I somehow got the LED to turn on whenever you changed the 50hz/60hz setting, but now I can't remember how or what I did!

Anyone else have either of these microscopes working?

it looks like sonix component won't work with new quicktime so maybe it's time to buy a new webcam

any way of rolling quicktime back to the more useful version that did work?

maybe installing QuickTime 7 from Optional Installs.mpkg on Snow Leo DVD will help
EDIT: no it won't. it causes qt7 to crash

Great! New OS killed my camera. Is this Vista or what? Progress eh?

I fixed the SONIX installer - two of the scripts in the package need to be tweaked. Don't know why they wrote them this way, but they start with

#!bin/sh

instead of what they should be:

#!/bin/sh

Just change that at the top of two scripts in the installer package. The scripts are in Contents/Resources, and are called preflight and postflight. That got the installer working for me.

However, the driver (configured as described in this thread for my VX-6000) works at first but crashes any app using video when the app stops using the camera. Maybe it just isn't Snow Leopard compatible? Anyone else experience this?

Here's the error it puts in the system log:

WebCam Monitor[11509] CFDictionaryReplaceValue(): immutable collection 0x349fc0 given to mutating function

Also, don't know if it makes any difference, but I opened it up and the controller chip in my cam is not the sn9c201, but the sn9c202.

<<<OK here it is. Not sure but it should work. VX-1000 is a combination of Sonix sn9c105r+OV7660 so first install Sonix SN9C102p driver

SN9C102p_Series_WebCam_Driver_OSX_1.01.0004.zip ( 634.48K ) Number of downloads: 317>>>

Hey mate... this worked great for me (thank you), but do you know how to get ichat to work better with this method? Still kinda strobe-ish.

no idea

MAN THIS WORKED GREAT!!!

I tried editing the plist, but I was using textedit and must have screwed it up, but after downloading the file and plopping it into the same location it worked great!!! Skype , Ichat, Everything!!! AWESOME!!! oh im on a 10.5.6 hackintosh (HPD530)the camera is a lifecam VX-6000

thank you so much!!!

Does this work with PhotoBooth for anybody? When I go to the Camera menu it lists the iSight and "Camera (In Use)" - the camera is the VX-1000 which works in every other application I've tried - and it most definitely isn't in use.

Hi all, So - my company decided to order 40 vx-1000 cameras to install on macs. I have downloaded the revised files and it doesnt appear as though they work. I have installed the driver (SN9C102p Series WebCam Driver OSX 1.01.0004) & replaced the Info.plist file - but i get nothing. Im hoping someone has found a solution to this problem and simply hasn't posted it.

I have yet to find / make one which works nicely with PhotoBooth, if anyone has could they upload the .zip please? It'll be much appreciated.

using the latest 1.0.3 driver from sonix for the VX-6000, camera is recognised in monitor but no picture / sound and the camera does not switch on. any ideas?

this is in SL 10.6.2