Command to list available webcam/video devices?
Is there a way to list all webcams that are available to my Mac (e.g. FaceTime camera) using Terminal?
I know there's
diskutil list
to list all disks attached to my Mac, but is there a command that does the same thing for input cameras?
Things I've already tried:
system_profiler SPCameraDataType
This doesn't list the identifier with associated number, which is the information that I need from the list.
ls -ltrh /dev/video*
I tried this too, but I'm pretty sure this only works for Linux/Ubuntu, which I know nothing about.
Thanks in advance.
Solution 1:
Try ioreg
command:
ioreg | grep -i cam
Solution 2:
I have installed webcamoid and Reincubate Camo, and both of their plugins are installed into
/Library/CoreMediaIO/Plug-Ins/DAL/
However Reincubate's documentation indicates that it is not compatible with FaceTime, so not all virtual cameras will work with it.