So, I use Pidgin for IM. It is like Trillian, but I like it better. No webcam support. I don’t webcam really, but I wondered today what I could use to webcam if I wanted to. I found a site, tokbox that lets you do just that, through the web – cool!
Anyway’s, It works fine on Vista with my webcam hooked up on my Dell, but I tried it on XP on Parallels on my MacBook and it couldn’t find a cam, WTF? So I did some digging and this is what I found, it will work, you just need to set it up!
In the MacBook, Parallels menu->Devices->USB->Built-In iSight which will enable it for use in XP..but no drivers. Here they are – iSight Drivers For Windows XP.
When going through the driver wizard in XP, point to the extracted drivers from that zip and it should work! Happy web camming! 🙂
BTW – I am on tokbox now (http://tokbox.com/ScaleOvenStove), so if you want to chat, audio/video, give me a "call". I haven’t tried it yet with anyone.
Steve Novoselac's Blog 
42 replies on “HowTo: Get iSight Camera Working in Windows XP through Parallels 3.0 on MacBook”
When I bought my MacBook, I thought the fact that it had a built-in cam was really cool, but I’ve yet to even use it…
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nice 🙂 well maybe we should video chat sometime then, so you can break it in …
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Unfortunately, this does not work on a macpro using an external firewire iSight camera.
😦
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Thanks for the tip – sorted!
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[…] I can get iSight working with Windows XP under Parallels and you indeed can, originally found via StevieNova. I’ve added screenshots and a […]
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Thanks! Been beating my head against the wall to figure this out and now works fine!
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Thnx man…I never even noticed the devices menu…
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i went thru the all the steps and xp detects the cam, but it would not show a picture at all!! please help 😦
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Many Thanks for the isight drivers, worked a treat on Macbook with xp.
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The zip file is currupted. I could not open it on my Windows XP Parallels Image
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How do you install this driver? In the setup wizard, I could not get to it.
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downloaded and extracted but the wizard can’t find the necessary software, help…
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Having the same problem sa anonymous above.
Got these drivers from several online sources, and wizard says “the hardware was not installed because the wizard cannot find the necessary software” 😦
Is this a naming mismatch or something?
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it worked for me, not sure sure why it isnt working, nothing has changed with the driver. I just re-downloaded it from the link and extracted it fine, not sure what to tell you
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Same problem as the two Anonymous. The funny thing is that it works in my old iMac and does not work in the brand new one.I do not know if it has something to do with the parallels version. Does anyone know where to find another driver?
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Had the same problem with my external FireWire iSight camera, xp hardware installer does not recognizes the driver as valid. Is there any alternative solution for the external iSight?
Many thanks!
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Tried your driver and had no joy either hovever using after selecting parallels -Devices-USB-Built in iSight and the wizard pops up following through to automatically select it picked some generic windows drivers that appear to work.
XP SP2
Parallels Ver 3.0 Build 5608
it now shows up under My computer as USB Video Device
and have tested it using Adobe Connect Pro. So far so good.
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thanks boos its working
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It doesnt work for me i have tried it and it sais the system cannot find the file specified any help?
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Perfect, it worked for me, thans a lot…
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Thanks, This worked for me in parallels…
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Are we talking Windows on a Mac, or Windows XP on an IBM Compatable?
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THX, works fine with Parallels 4, Windows XP SP3 on MacBook4,1 white.
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Got this working after editing the INF to match the the device info in the system manager thanks.
For me a new iMac i changed
%iSight.DeviceDesc%=iSight,USBVID_05AC&PID_8503&MI_00
to
%iSight.DeviceDesc%=iSight,USBVID_05AC&PID_8502&MI_02
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This is THE solution (changing the .inf) file. Thanks so much for posting. Success!
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Having the same problem. Able to download the file, but when decompressing it, it stated that the file was corrupt or invalid. Using Parallel desktop on the new Macbook Pro. Any suggestions?
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Excellent. Works perfectly. I now can use my isight cam using XP via parallels. Know why I used XP instead?. I used to enjoy my internet via Leopard during the 1st few days use of my Macbook. (Cat5 cable through an ADSL modem). But suddenly until now I cannot connect. It shows that the enthernet is connected with assigned correct IP address. But I cannot connect. Will appreciate any help. Thanks a Lot.
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Hello.
In my new Macbook Pro, don´t work.
I think the iSight is a new hardware version.
I try change values in .INF file, but I don´t know exactly what change.
My Hardware ID. iSight:
USBVID_05AC&PID_8507&Rev_0419&MI_02
USBVID_05AC&PID_8507&MI_02
Any help.
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Thanks a lot…. it really works
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[…] about iSight drivers and Parallels Desktop on Windows XP. Fortunately, I was able to recall the site. And voila!! It worked! iSight […]
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works great…17″ MBP had to add the line%iSight.DeviceDesc%=iSight,USBVID_05AC&PID;_8502&MI;_02just beneath the [Apple] section. Comes up as a 'USB Video Device #2' and a problem – with Apple Built-in iSight.. .. but the device still works greatThanks
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works great…17″ MBP had to add the line%iSight.DeviceDesc%=iSight,USBVID_05AC&PID;_8502&MI;_02just beneath the [Apple] section. Comes up as a 'USB Video Device #2' and a problem – with Apple Built-in iSight.. .. but the device still works greatThanks
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works great…17″ MBP had to add the line%iSight.DeviceDesc%=iSight,USBVID_05AC&PID;_8502&MI;_02just beneath the [Apple] section. Comes up as a 'USB Video Device #2' and a problem – with Apple Built-in iSight.. .. but the device still works greatThanks
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i love you guys. I did this and had my iSight runnung in less than a munute…thanx
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i love you guys. I did this and had my iSight runnung in less than a munute…thanx
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This is THE solution (changing the .inf) file. Thanks so much for posting. Success!
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The file downloaded but it says invalid or corrupted file while trying to uncompress.
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The file downloaded but it says invalid or corrupted file while trying to uncompress.
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i have the same problem only, im using windows 7….
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had to play with it a little. installed driver. removed USB device in device manager and rebooted. then windows found it and it worked…cool
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works great…
I have a new 13″ MBP 2010
Running Parallels Desktop
had to add the line
%iSight.DeviceDesc%=iSight,USBVID_05AC&PID;_8502&MI;_02
just beneath the last line under the [Apple] section. Comes up as a ‘Imaging devices’ and a problem – with Apple Built-in iSight.. .. but the device still works great
Also I changed
%iSight.DeviceDesc%=iSight,USBVID_05AC&PID;_8503&MI;_00
to
%iSight.DeviceDesc%=iSight,USBVID_05AC&PID;_8507&MI;_02
Thanks for the Help
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`good
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