isight

Accessing iSight programatically?

Is it possible to access the iSight camera on a macbook programatically? By this I mean I would like to be able to just grab still frames from the iSight camera on command and then do something with them. If so, is it only accessible using objective c, or could other languages be used as well? ...

Exposure Lock in iSight

I am creating object-detection program on Mac. I want to use iSight in manual exposure mode to improve detection quality. I tried iGlasses & QTKit Capture to do that and it worked but program runs very slowly and unstable. So I want to try other solution. In PhotoBooth.app, iSight seemed to be run in fixed exposure mode so there might ...

How can I capture iSight frames with Python in Snow Leopard?

I have the following PyObjC script: from Foundation import NSObject import QTKit error = None capture_session = QTKit.QTCaptureSession.alloc().init() print 'capture_session', capture_session device = QTKit.QTCaptureDevice.defaultInputDeviceWithMediaType_(QTKit.QTMediaTypeVideo) print 'device', device, type(device) success = device.open_...

Using QCView and iSight to capture image

Hello all! I have a QCView that loads a Quartz file which gives you iSights feedback (basically like a QTCaptureView) Everything displays fine The button simply takes a snapshot using the following simple lines of code - (void)takePicture:(id)sender {NSImage *currentImage = [outputView valueForOutputKey:@"ImageOutput"]; [[currentImage...

QTCaptureView corrupting iSight?

I've been programming using OpenCV on the iSight feed and after building and running from Xcode 10 or so times somewhat quickly the MacBook Pro starts to not recognize the iSight (as in completely, Photo Booth doesn't work, nor video chat within iChat, and it's not in System Profiler). The only way to recover is to do an SMC reset, norma...

Is there a way to test HTTP Live Streaming via an iSight camera?

I'm working on an iPhone app that will use HTTP Live Streaming. Using Apple's provided tools (particularly mediafilesegmenter), I'm able to successfully segment and serve an archived video. Now I want to test Live Streaming stuff. I don't own any sort of camcorder, I just have my iSight built-in to my Mac. Is there a way to leverage this...

Saving data with dataWithPDFInsideRect: just makes a black pdf

Hello, I have a QTCaptureView and Im trying to save the view as a picture. So far I have this: NSRect rect = [outputView bounds]; NSData *viewData = [outputView dataWithPDFInsideRect:rect]; [viewData writeToFile:@"/test.pdf" atomically:YES]; but for some reason when I save instead of seeing a picture of my vie (iSight Camera) I se...

Get webcam stream on Mac Os X in Java

Hi, I would like to get the webcam stream of my Macbook (the integrated iSight webcam). I use Java, and I don't know anything about Objective-C so I'm looking for a "full-java" solution. I found some class example, but they were made in 2005 and they don't work on my system. Thank you ...

Capture MacBook Pro iSight video with C++

Hi guys, i'd like to grab a frame from my MacBook Pro iSight in C++ and do some elaborations on it. I already know how to do that in ObjC with QTKit, but is there any way to do the same thing in C++? NOTE: I tried to install OpenCV with macports, but the framework doesn't seem to support iSight cameras. Thanks ...