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webcamcapture

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Jan 11, 2011
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Hello all,

I was developing a webcam capture application in Windows with DirectShow, but I wanted to port it to Mac in the future.
I have done quite a bit of research on this, but one problem I have is that I am not sure what support QTKit offers for enumerating video sizes and frames per second (DirectShow offers full support, enumerating the pre-defined resolutions for the given webcam).

According to this guy's post, only a default resolution is provided by QTKit and we have to "guess" what other resolutions are supported by the webcam.
Also, this post also says "Mac tells you minimum size and nothing more. Mac can only set the maximum FPS you want (It can deliver less)"

For my application, I want to select the largest resolution that I can get at least 10fps with. I am not sure how to write a generic interface to select this capture resolution/fps that will port easily to Mac in the future.

I also was thinking that maybe I could *painfully* interface with the Mac UVC driver directly to enumerate the video capture sources. Does QTKit really not offer this capability?

Any ideas?
Thank you in advance!
 
Anybody have any ideas?
Is there any way for me to contact Apple directly on this issue?

Thanks.
 
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