How do I refer to my iSight or USB webcam?

[d11wtq]

All the docs keep putting "input_stream" in place of the real input stream. Googling just takes me to Linux-centric tutorials where you use /dev/video0 or something which doesn't exist on OS X (Tiger/Leopard).

Anyone know what I'm supposed to use as input_stream to capture from my webcam?

[pdherbemont]

in 0.9.0 we support qtcapture. The device to open is qtcapture://

[d11wtq]

Awesome, thanks heaps.

Do I need to check out from SVN for this? It looks like the latest version is 0.8.6 on the download page I couldn't get 0.8.6 to run (it just crashed immediately both for clivlc and the GUI based app) so had to play with 0.8.4 instead.

[pdherbemont]

Checkout http://nightlies.videolan.org/

Pierre.

[pdherbemont]

Note, if you experience some crashes reset VLC preferences.

[d11wtq]

Legendary! It works

I was actually in the middle of writing my own with the new QTKit API... does this version support OS X 10.4 or only 10.5? Guessing it depends on QT 7.2.1 or higher? Just curious.

[yorgasor]

I'm trying to make this work with a firewire version of the iSight camera. I downloaded the nightly build from Aug 30th, and tried using qtcapture:// as my input stream. But when I finish the wizard, I get the error, "No input device found". Should I use something else to refer to firewire versions of the camera, or is it not supported at all just yet?