Mac webcam - get the device 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.
Unfortunately, it appears that ffmpeg can't record using the iSight, as reported in a ffmpeg-users thread.

Really a shame that Apple doesn't expose this functionality!