I’ve been struggling with getting video from a Linksys WVC54GC web camera directly onto a machine running OS X. The only half-hack I’ve been able to come up with is, oddly enough, using QuickTime (no luck with VLC or MPlayer).
1. Open QuickTime Player.app.
2. Choose File->Open URL…
3. Type in the link to your camera: http://camerip:1024/img/video.asf (I’m using port 1024 for my camera.
4. Click OK and wait for the desired amount of time you’d like to record for.
5. Press Apple+A to select all, Apple+N to bring up a new viewer, and Apple+V to paste in.
QuickTime Player is highly non-responsive while this is occurring, but it seems to pull it off. Let me know if you have a better way.
Hey, you can use Mplayer to open it.
File->Open Location>
(type in for your case)
http://camerip/img/video.asf (without a port number)
or
http://username:passwd@cameraip/img/video.asf (if you need to access to a protected cam)
Hope this help