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
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load firmware
- modprobe uvcvideo
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load USB video class driver
- gst-launch v4l2src use-fixed-fps=false ! video/x-raw-yuv,format=‹urccUYVY,width=320,height=240 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! ximagesink
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run gstreamer
Author
Written by Ronald S. Bultje. This manual page contributed for Debian by Junichi Uekawa <[email protected]>, but may be used for others.