Replacement for Video Library on Mac (webcam feed)

[Ben Rubinstein]

Thanks Klaus, that's what I needed.

Perhaps this will be my first contribution to the code: add a sentence to the 
dictionary entries for video grabber libary to point at this.

Cheers!

Ben

On 15/05/2020 10:12, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
>> Am 15.05.2020 um 11:08 schrieb Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>>
>> I needed to do something with a webcam feed, and confidently set out to do this using revInitializeVideoGrabber/revPreviewVideo etc. After several times scratching my head wondering why it didn't work I finally read the note in the dictionary that says "Support for the "Video Grabber" library on Mac OS X ended in LiveCode 9.0."
>> But I can't seem to figure out what the replacement is?
>> What's the most straight forward way to display the feed from a webcam in LC 9 and later, on macOS?
> 
> check -> cameracontrol in the dictionary, I think this is the crossplatform successor of the (Mac Only) videograbber.
> 
>> TIA,
>>
>> Ben
> 
> Best
> 
> Klaus
> 
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