Creating a Virtual Webcam Device for OS X

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andsve picture andsve · Mar 29, 2010 · Viewed 11.5k times · Source

I am looking for a solution to create a "virtual" webcam device under OS X (that acts just as a normal hardware webcam, but the application has full control over what to output). I'm fairly experienced with C++, but not so much with Objective-C and OSX/Cocoa programming.

Anyone that can point me in the right direction, where to look and what I should be looking for? I've searched, but most of the results seems to focus on Windows and DirectX.

Thanks!

Answer

parceval picture parceval · Apr 20, 2010

To get started you should have a look at http://webcam-osx.sourceforge.net/ It is an opensource webcam driver kit for os x.

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