video-capture

Custom avi/MP4 file writer

I am writing some video files under Windows from a camera. I need the data unaltered - not MP4's 'uncompressed' ie. no YUV, no color interpolation - just the raw camera sensor bytestream. At the moment I am writing this direct to disk and re-reading it later to recode into a usable video. But with no header I have to keep track of image...

Capture Mediacenter Content

I need to capture the content that (Win7) Mediacenter is displaying. My first approach was to use the Win7 Live Thumbnail Preview for this, but this only works as long as Mediacenter is not fullscreen. As soon as I switch to fullscreen mode, the thumbnail become black. This seems logical, because MC switches to a DirectX mode (for GPU ha...

VIDEO AND MUSIC

When I use my video camera on my evo, it automatically turns off the music I have playing. Is there an app where I can keep that from happening? I would like to make videos with music in the background. If there is not an app, what would It take to get somebody to develop it? ...

How to start/stop video recording on Canon camera via SDK?

Hi! I have a Canon 7D digital camera and I'd like to have an ability to control video recording from PC. I've downloaded Canon SDK 2.8, read all the document it contains but still cant figure out how to start or stop video recording on the camera. Is there any possibility to control video recording via Canon SDK? Thanks. ...

How to add a socket as QTCaptureOutputs for a QTCaptureSession

I'm reading Apple's documentation on using QTKit to capture streaming audio and video from input sources. I read that the central class QTCaptureSession handles the input and sends it to every possible output (QTCaptureOutput). The documentation lists six subclasses of QTCaptureOutput (e.g., QTCaptureMovieFileOutput). I would like to cr...

Trying to understand QTCompressionOptionsWindowTest

Hi, I'm trying to build an application that uses QTKit, with some compress options. I saw this example in the apple developer page QTCompressionOptionsWindow that uses a Window for that purpose. in MyController.m line 65 there is a comment: // ******** Compression Options Window ***** // create our window with the media type and se...

Software and/or Hardware solution for multi camera recording and streaming setup

Hello, In a nutshell, I need a way to stream (or otherwise play) a movie along with 3 to 4 other 'show angles', with the user being able to change the stream they're viewing. End result should be a video player with links/buttons for the other angles, allowing the user to switch camera streams (angles) as they wish. Here's an example: ...

Video capture on an iPhone; captureOutput delegate never called

Hey folks. Trying to get started with iPhone video capture stuff, and having a terrible time getting it going. At the moment, working with an exact copy of the sample code from this Apple Developer Q&A: qa1702; not going to re-paste it here, since it's a relatively big blob of code. In any case, I copied and pasted that code into an o...

OpenCV 'cvQueryFrame' non-blocking on OS X?

Hello, when I perform a cvQueryFrame on Windows, the API blocks until an image is delivered. On Mac OS X, I am at 100% CPU utilization, while only querying for an image and displaying it in a window. I am at the latest SVN version. Can anyone confirm my experience? Am I doing something wrong? Is there a work-around? My loop code looks ...