From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: January 17, 2006 5:27:05 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Re: Can't autoguide with Flea (or DSI Pro, for that matter).

Tim;

On 17-Jan-06, at 5:16 PM, Tim wrote:

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Milton Aupperle <milton@o...> wrote:

> If you download QuickTime 7.04 and OSX 10.4.4, then the PGR camera

> will be recognized by Apple's QuickTime driver. Apple finally fixed

> the bugs in their code that prevented it and other cameras from beign

> recognized (busg in their Confirgorm code), after I had 4 arguments

> with the QT and FireWire engineers and finally talked to the head

> Engineer of Apple FireWire to get it fixed (only had to wait 8 months

> and 3 revisions for them to fix it).. But Neither IOXperts nor Apples

> let you set exposure times directly. QuickTime basically isn't suited

> to doing what you want. I've forced it to do so for other clients

> with other cameras , but it simply isn't a workable Architecture.

Yeah. When I plug in the Flea, iChat opens up. I always quit, but maybe I should play with

that and verify it works?

Did you ever think of turning it off so that iChat doesn't do that?

Just from Memory doing this in the past.

iChat -> Prefernecs -> Video

and uncheck the Always open camera checkbox.

And shame on Apple for being such dick heads about hiding this away..

Milton J. Aupperle

President

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Mac Software (Drivers, Components and Application) Specialist

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