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

VDCAssistantCoreMediaIO DAL Assistant Process.

VDCAssistant is used by the CoreMediaIO Device Abstraction Layer Plug-In that provides video capture from some models of Apple FaceTime cameras and external third-party USB VDC-class cameras using AVFoundation Capture APIs. The process allows multiple applications to simultaneously capture from the same camera.

November 11, 2016 macOS 14.6