Category Archives: QTKit

The Magical Mystery World of Core Video (part 2 of 2)

By Krist | Published: November 6, 2009

After trying and failing with various configurations for using Core Image I still haven’t found what I’m looking for and Sneaky Bastard is still compounding it’s memory usage on subsequent snapshots. It got me to question the choices in the frameworks I’ve made. I had to go back to the sample code Sneaky Bastard video [...]

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First Breakthrough

By Krist | Published: September 12, 2009

I have finally made a significant advancement on writing my own camera capture class. After hacking and reverse engineering through various Quicktime framework sample source codes, I’ve successfully modified one that would capture 1 second of video and output it to a jpeg file. The file that provided my base file was the StillMotion sample. [...]

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Camera Capture Issues

By Krist | Published: August 23, 2009

I seem to have run into a brick wall. I can’t seem to enable the NSStatusBar items. The source code I found had menu items disabled. The setEnabled method doesn’t seem to do it. Other source code I found were implemented differently that won’t work with mine. On top of that, it seems that there [...]

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