iChat AV error "Can't get video from the camera"

Posted by Frodo Larik Mon, 17 Apr 2006 21:04:00 GMT

The solution below only works for people who are also running PostgreSQL on their Macs.

While I was setting up a new iMac G5 with builtin isight, I ended up playing around with iChat AV and Bonjour connections.

Somehow it didn’t work on my iMac, I was getting an error message after the connection seemed to be initiated. The error message was:

“Can’t get video from the camera”.

I forgot I had this problem before, and more imporantly how I solved it.

Thanks to a link on http://www.ralphjohnsuk.dsl.pipex.com/page16.html I found out that the problem was due to a shared memory problem (or shared port problem) between iChat and PostgreSQL.

There are two ways of solving this problem, choose one wich applies to your situation:

  1. Decrease shared memory on postgresql
  2. Recompile PostgreSQL for use with a different port