web cam capture

[Doug Lerner]

Thanks, Tom. I'll try some more. My initial tests failed, but I'll keep at
it.

By the by, Apple does say that iSight is meant to be accessed by other apps.
That is their excuse for not bundling iChat with it, which so many Jaguar
users complain about.

doug

On 1/31/04 12:37 AM, "Thomas McGrath III" <3mcgrath at adelphia.net> wrote:

> doug,
> 
> The video capabilities were camera independent so "IF" the camera can
> be accessed by 'other' programs it probably can be accessed by REV. In
> the case of iSight which apple says is not meant to be accessed by
> other apps, REV can see it just fine AND control all kinds of features
> in it that can't even be controlled by apples own apps.
> 
> So if the driver for the camera is 'standard' enough to work in say
> "oculus" or some other web app then REV can definitely handle it.
> 
> I had great results after playing around with it a little bit.
> 
> tom
> 
> On Jan 30, 2004, at 6:12 AM, Doug Lerner wrote:
> 
>> Just some general questions to the group - I notice that Revolution has
>> video camera capturing features. It seems that this would be hard to
>> implement across platforms, different camera models and different
>> interfaces
>> (USB and Firewire - like iSight).
>> 
>> How do people find the robustness and cross-platform/cross-product
>> usability
>> of the video capture features?
>> 
>> Does this work as well with webcams as with video cameras?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> 
>> doug
>> 
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