Find the path to my USB webcam on OS X Mavericks I am trying to live stream my webcam (with ffmpeg) on a web server using Web sockets. However, I cannot manage to find the path (similar to /dev/video* un Linux).

I wanted first to use iSight, but Apple makes it really complex to access it (using avfoundation, qkit).

How can I identify/access my Webcam device please ?

Note : I have found this post, but sadly unanswered.

Thanks
You should try the VLC player.

It has multitude of options for setting of the Capture and Streaming.



I am not showing your set up since I do not have external webcam, but it should show in the drop down menu for you.