If you’re a developer who needs to work with the iSight video camera, you should read and understand the following documents. Note that these documents are not available from Apple and the necessary information contained therein is not repeated in this document.
IEEE 1394-1995: Standard for a High Performance Serial Bus
IEEE 1394a-2000: Standard for a High Performance Serial Bus––Amendment 1
IEEE 1212-2001: IEEE Standard for a Control and Status Registers (CSR) Architecture
IIDC 1.30 Digital Camera specification
The IEEE standards listed above can be obtained from http://www.ieee.org
The IIDC specification listed above is available from http://www.1394ta.org
Tools such as FireBug , mentioned in this document, are available in Apple’s FireWire SDK for Mac OS X, which can be downloaded from http://developer.apple.com/sdk
Developers seeking further information about iSight may contact firewire@apple.com
Last updated: 2004-10-05