NAME
macbook-isight-firmware-loader − loads iSight firmware from Mac OS X driver
SYNOPSIS
macbook-isight-firmare-loader Mac OS X driver file
DESCRIPTION
This command will take the driver file from Mac OS X and extract the firmware, and load the data into USB iSight device which is found in MacBooks.
Driver is usually found in /System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBVideoSupport.kext/Contents/MacOS/AppleUSBVideoSupport and the firmware should be loaded before loading uvcvideo module.
example
macbook-isight-firmware-loader
/System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBVideoSupport.kext/Contents/MacOS/AppleUSBVideoSupport
load firmware
modprobe uvcvideo
load USB video class driver
gst-launch v4l2src
use-fixed-fps=false !
video/x-raw-yuv,format=‹urccUYVY,width=320,height=240
!
ffmpegcolorspace ! ximagesink
run gstreamer
Author
Written by Ronald S. Bultje. This manual page contributed for Debian by Junichi Uekawa <dancer [AT] debian.org>, but may be used for others.