Bug Report Firewire Camera Not Detected

[spamquest1]

I have a firewire camera on a mac with an adapter from firewire to thunderbolt. QuickTime, iMovie, and Livestream Producer recognize and use this camera just fine. OBS does not acknowledge that it exists. A dumb workaround exists where I capture the QuickTime window, but this is far from ideal.

 

[LuukeNukem]

Mac is really annoying when it comes to foreign video capture devices. Nearly always you would have to download some 3rd party application to even view the captured footage.

I assume your firewire plugs into your USB of your computer. So you'll need to find a way to make your mac see it as a webcam.

 

[spamquest1]

Mac is really annoying when it comes to foreign video capture devices. Nearly always you would have to download some 3rd party application to even view the captured footage.

I assume your firewire plugs into your USB of your computer. So you'll need to find a way to make your mac see it as a webcam.

It's not a problem with the Mac. As I said, QuickTime, iMovie, and Livestream Producer all recognize it just fine.

It's also plugged in via a firewire to thunderbolt adapter (Don't ask why we're using such an old camera with new iMacs, it's stupid, I know).

 

[FedericoOBS]

Hello, here the same.
Firewire device detected by QuickTime, vlc, and wirecast.
Nothing in OBS.
Any advices?
Thank you

 

[JPS]

I have the same issue. Cannot get my HVX200 to bee seen via OBS even though FCPX and quicktime see it fine.

 

[craigviar]

Hello all. Has there been any resolution to this issue? I am having the same problem on a Windows 10 computer. Other programs can see my old firewire connected camcorder just fine but not OBS. I have had to resort to using OBS Classic for my needs. I can do the workaround using window capture with VLC player but that is not ideal.

Thanks