IIDCVideoAssistant(8) System Manager's Manual IIDCVideoAssistant(8)

IIDCVideoAssistantCoreMediaIO DAL Assistant Process.

IIDCVideoAssistant is used by the CoreMediaIO Device Abstraction Layer Plug-In that provides video capture from external Apple FireWire (IEEE 1394) iSight cameras and third-party FireWire IIDC-class cameras using AVFoundation Capture APIs. The process allows multiple applications to simultaneously capture from the same camera.

November 11, 2016 macOS 15.2