How do I access my default video camera on my mac? I know on Linux it is /dev/video0 but my Mac does not have that. I'm trying to capture my webcam into ffmpeg
ffmpeg -i /dev/video0
But it won't work because /dev/video0 doesn't exist.
3 Answers
here's the documentation for macOS:
OS X users can use the avfoundation and qtkit input devices for grabbing integrated iSight cameras as well as cameras connected via USB or FireWire:
AVFoundation is available on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) and later. Since then, Apple recommends AVFoundation for stream grabbing on OS X and iOS devices. QTKit is available on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and later. QTKit has been marked deprecated since OS X 10.7 (Lion) and may not be available on future releases.
here's an example using linux, but it can be done with the above link just as easily with macos.
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