[FFmpeg-user] FFmpeg can't get access to webcam when excuted via Adobe AIR?

[Roger Pack]

>> -          I cannot see a solution how to send the video of the webcam to a streaming server on Mac (dshow seems to work just for Windows). Is there no chance to have input via the webcam on Mac? Just Linux and Windows?
>
> I have thought about that recently myself.  I don't think it can yet.
> VLC has a qtcapture module, and once it gets working audio capture [1]
> I hope to port it over to ffmpeg.

hot off the presses, looks like there was a patch made:

http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2011-September/082063.html

though apparently it doesn't work great "quite yet" or something.