<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 28, 2007, at 12:16 PM, Martin McClure wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I used to have code that did that. I don't know whether I can dig it out</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">(definitely can't this week, I'm off to Toronto for the Smalltalk</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Solutions conference in an hour) but it's not hard to do -- use FFI to</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">make calls to Quicktime routines.</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I'm not sure that I want to dig into QuickTime API under OS 8/9, but thanks for the tip :D. If I'm feeling particularly rambunctious maybe I'll delve into it.</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I never tried it with Apple video hardware (my beige G3 doesn't have</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">that option) but the same code worked through a higher-end video input</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">PCI card system and a FireWire webcam. They used a uniform Quicktime</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">interface to software, so I imagine the Apple hardware probably did as well.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>It is nice to know that it is possible.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks,</DIV><DIV>Tim</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>