MacOS – Webcam not working on Macbook Pro 13″

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At some point this year I noticed that my camera was not working. (Skype, Google, Facetime)

I tried this https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT2090

But under devices for Camera it says no devices found.

Mac OS 10.10.4

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It might be some VDCAssistant programs using it.

Try this ,Open a terminal window and type the command below.

sudo killall VDCAssistant

This will kill all other programs and you will be able to use your camera again.

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I found out that the camera is taken over, somehow, by the google talk browser plugin. I solved by doing the following. From a terminal, I issued the following command

ps uaxw |grep Firefox

It will show a list of the processes under Firefox. One of them may be something like

sbo      21173   0.0  0.1   414040   2492   ??  S     5May11   0:07.47 
   /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/plugin-container.app/Contents/
   MacOS/plugin-container /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/googletalkbrowserplugin.plugin
   -omnijar /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/omni.jar 21168 
   gecko-crash-server-pipe.21168 org.mozilla.machname.855559451 plugin

I wrapped the long line. I then proceeded to kill this process (the pid is the first number)

  kill 21173

and the iSight started working again.

MacOS – Built-in iSight not working after migrating OS X from Mac Mini to MacBook Pro

[Adding update for posterity and closing this question]

Pleased to report my iSight was working in my MBP with a new logic board.

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