I need to receive an event when some process starts using the camera. I did this through CMIOObjectGetPropertyData. But it does not work correctly, the correct value is only the first time it is a...

Since a couple of days I can't open my iSight camera from inside an opencv application any more. cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0) returns, and cap.isOpened() returns true. However, cap.grab() just returns...

I am trying to capture a single frame from the Apple iSight camera built into a Macbook Pro using Python (version 2.7 or 2.6) and the PyObjC (version 2.2). As a starting point, I used this old St...

So to record webcam video with ffmpeg on linux you may use something like... ffmpeg -f video4linux2 -s 640x480 -i /dev/video0 out.avi But on a mac this doesn't work, so i was wondering how do yo...

I would like to get the webcam stream of my Macbook (the integrated iSight webcam). I use Java, and I don't know anything about Objective-C so I'm looking for a "full-java" solution. I found...

I realize there is not any public documentation about the use of the isight light sensor, however programs such as ShadowBook (shown here) are able to access the the brightness data and I was simpl...

I am having trouble accessing the external USB camera instead of the built-in iSight when using OpenCV with a MacBook Pro under Mac OSX. When passing an argument to the cvCaptureFromCAM(index) fun...

I'm trying to do a live video stream of the webcam with ffserver and ffmpeg. I've found some resources on the net (#1 and #2), which more or less do the same thing. I'm on a MacBook Pro runn...

Is it possible to access the iSight camera on a macbook programmatically? By this I mean I would like to be able to just grab still frames from the iSight camera on command and then do something wi...

I have the following PyObjC script: from Foundation import NSObject import QTKit error = None capture_session = QTKit.QTCaptureSession.alloc().init() print 'capture_session', capture_session devic...