Re: Displaying real-time video in cocoa app

FROM : Stéphane Sudre
DATE : Sat Apr 09 22:03:06 2005

On samedi, avril 9, 2005, at 09:56  PM, Juan Pablo Pertierra wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a cocoa application which already displays pre-recorded video
> using quicktime.  I would also like to have it be able to display
> real-time video in a box in the main application window.  Basically I
> already have application code that receives the video data in real
> time, and I have RGB values for it.  I would like to have, say, a
> frame buffer such that I just update the data to the buffer and call a
> refresh function.  If I need to skip some frames that's fine, i just
> need some sort of real-time feedback.  I think this sounds like
> Quartz, but i'm not sure, if anyone can guide me in the right
> direction i'd appreciate it.  I'm pretty sure quicktime is not
> designed to do this in real-time?


It might be more efficient using OpenGL.

My $0.02