web cam capture

[Doug Lerner]

Hi, Tom.

I'll look at the sample stack.

Thanks,

doug

On 1/31/04 9:59 AM, "Thomas McGrath III" <3mcgrath at adelphia.net> wrote:

> Doug,
> 
> Apple said the iSight would not work with iPhoto or iMovie and was not
> meant to do such. Also iChat will not let you access the built-in
> controls found in iSight. REV let me control everything. I mean
> everything. The focus on the iSight is way cool. Other features are
> great as well.
> 
> But pay close attention to opening the videograb session and 'closing'
> the session. I forgot and caused a bit of weird stuff.
> 
> I tried it on my own first and then went and checked out the sample
> stack provided and it all came into place.
> 
> TOm
> 
> On Jan 30, 2004, at 5:59 PM, Doug Lerner wrote:
> 
>> 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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