VideoGrabber on Windows

[Klaus Major]

Hi friends,

I am currently trying to make the videograbber work on Windows 7.

I have a brandnew "Cheapnis" PC with Windows 7 Premium Home
to test this. The only other newly installed software is Rev 4 and
QuickTime 7x, latest version for Windows.

What I found so far is extremely disappointing.

All tests were made with the "Video Capture.rev" test stack from Rev.

1. QuickTime:
When trying to:
...
revInitializeVideoGrabber the short name of this stack, "QT",the rect of img "video" of cd 1
answer the result 
## = Cannot load video component
...

I already bugzillaed this:
<http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=8465>

2. Video for Windows:
This works in general, but I found that one cannot save the current settings, which works fine on a Mac:
...
local myVar
revVideoGrabSettings "myVar"
answer (myVar = empty)
## Gives me TRUE!!!
...

So this way I cannot save/load settings :-/

Anyone working with the videograbber successfully on Windows 7?
If yes, with QuickTime or VfW?
Any opinions, hints or comfort? ;-)

Believe it or not, its official:
The videograbber is also supposed to work in Revlets!!!!
Isn't this amazing? Anyone dared this yet? :-D


Best

Klaus

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Klaus Major
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klaus at major.on-rev.com