Het programma macam richt zich op het ondersteunen van verschillende usb-webcam's op het Mac OS X-platform. Voor een complete lijst met ondersteunde modellen verwijzen we jullie door naar deze pagina. Naast het aansturen van de webcam kan het programma ook de videobeelden opnemen die er gemaakt worden. Voor meer informatie verwijzen we jullie door naar deze pagina. De ontwikkelaars hebben versie 0.8.8 op de wereld gezet met de volgende aanpassingen:
Version 0.8.8:Version 0.8.7:
- ZC030x driver appears to not crash anymore (Quickcam Communicate STX)
- SN9Cxxx driver appears to not crash anymore (Philips SPC600NC anyway)
- compression for ZC030x might work
- added downloading of images for Philips FunCam (DMVC 300K)
- added Trust WB-3400T
- fixed SPC200NC inversion
- macam now quits when main window is closed
- added copy functionality to main window
- added preliminary EyeToy support
- added more QuickCam Express cameras
- added an spca561 cam
- added a sonix cam
- fixed debug messages in Messenger driver
- fixed a byte-order quality issue for many cameras on Mac Intel (in BayerConverter!)
- fixed rotation for Veo Stingray
Version 0.8.6:
- Fixed (hopefully) a serious QuickTime resource bug at the request of Apple
- OV511(+) has reverted to 0.8.4 status and should work now (oops)
- TV8532-based cameras should work now
- SPCA501-based cameras should work now
- SPCA508-based cameras should work now
- ZC030x-based cameras should work now
- Ezonics iContact should work now
- All Logitech QuickCam Express (all 4 varieties) should work now
- Sonix-based cameras might work now
- Some cameras may still have problems on Intel-based Macs, please report
Version 0.8.5:
- SPCA561A-based webcams actually work now (some Quickcam Express)
- OV519-based camera support has been improved, please report (possibly Eyetoy)
- ZC030x-based cameras may work, please report
- Some cameras may still have problems on Intel-based Macs, please report
- Other occasional bugs have been fixed
- Both the application (macam) and the Quicktime component (macam.component) are Universal now
- However some cameras may still have problems on Intel-based Macs, please report
- Added support for Pixart PAC207-based webcams
- Added preliminary support for Sunplus SPCA561A-based webcams, may or may not work with all cameras.
- Added support for Logitech QuickCam Messenger, Messenger Plus, and Communicate webcams
- Added a GenericDriver to the infrastructure to simplify further development
- Added a SPCA5XXDriver to allow the inclusion of code directly from the spca5xx Linux driver
- Please note the existence of a companion project (wacaw), a command-line grab utility