If you need to pass a video stream into your CMIO extension, have the CMIO extension publish an output device. This somewhat confuses me, since in my case CMIO extension is used to create a virtual webcam. And webcam is a video input device, not video output. What if unwanted application decides to pass some video data to my CMIO extension? Is there a way to prevent this? This doesn't seem to be covered in WWDC 2022 Session 10022. Maybe there are other options for IPC with CMIO extension, besides XPC (not recommended) and publishing an output device?

@eskimo, OK, thank you for good explanation.

So, has anybody found any solution to the XPC connection problem? I seem to be facing the same issue.

While we are here, may I ask another related question? If I don't include Provisioning Profile into the app bundle (which contains Camera Extension inside), I get an error "Application can't be opened" when I try to launch the application under macOS 12.4. The crash report is generated, which contains the following basic information (may post a complete report if needed): Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGKILL (Code Signature Invalid)) Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000 Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY Termination Reason: CODESIGNING 1 Highlighted by Thread: 0 Backtrace not available No thread state (register information) available Binary Images: Binary images description not available Error Formulating Crash Report: _dyld_process_info_create failed with 6 dyld_process_snapshot_get_shared_cache failed Failed to create CSSymbolicatorRef - corpse still valid ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ thread_get_state(PAGEIN) returned 0x10000003: (ipc/send) invalid destination port thread_get_state(EXCEPTION) returned 0x10000003: (ipc/send) invalid destination port thread_get_state(FLAVOR) returned 0x10000003: (ipc/send) invalid destination port EOF However, if I put embedded.provisionprofile into the bundle or install it locally, the app is launched and Camera Extension is successfully installed. So the question is why the provisioning profile is necessary here? Note that this is only for the application that contains and installs Camera Extension, otherwise it's not needed. Also is there any way to achieve the same without embedding the provisioning profile?

Thank you for reply, Quinn! Yes, the app was not notarized, but after I notarized it, Camera Extension was successfully installed. So the problem is solved. It's useful to know this difference between Developer ID and Apple Development certificates. I didn't find this information in Apple docs, perhaps, I didn't look carefully enough.

Any ideas? Please help!