yes, not only that. reading through the linux

uvc driver i found the following comment.

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/* 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.

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* 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.

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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...
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> {"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/."}

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