The two lights next to macbook camera

I just turned my macbook on today to find that there is a green light next to my webcam, does it mean that it's on? also one more question, I don't know how to access my webcam to turn it off/on.

If someone could give me a hand that would be greatly appreciated

 

Yes, the webcam is on when the green light is on . It normally should just be off, unless you have an application that is using it (Front Row, iMovie to record, etc.).

 

How do I turn it off? it doesn't seem like any programs I'm running at the moment could have it turned on? (Safari, Finder and MSN)

 

Hmm, and the light is on?

That's weird. Maybe try restarting the Mac, see if that will kill it.

 

Doesn't turn off, I even went into image capture.app and it says no camera connected?

 

Take a look and see if this link helps troubleshoot your problem...it seems similar to yours :

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5009004

 

thanks i'll give it a go, i'm pretty new with using mac os x and all. when i turn on iChat and go into the preferences -> video/audio it just shows a black screen yet the microphone is working. is there a webcam preferences somewhere? i'll give this link a go

 

That happened to me before... I turn on my MB and the light would be on; the camera wouldn't work in Photo Booth though.

I restarted and it went away. Go figure.

 

Okay I fixed it, for anyone who was wondering. I turned my macbook off, removed the battery and held the power button for 5 seconds and placed the battery back and that fixed it

Thanks Sam for the link

 

Wouldn't just a normal restart do the trick as well?

 

Glad to hear you solved the problem, Bwen! Happy to help out .

 

I tried, it didn't do anything. I shut down my computer and turned it back on too and it had the same problem.

 

I had the same problem awhile ago. I just restarted my macbook and it was off when my macbook turned back on.