iChat is an awesome piece of work. I dont know that you can use it that way. You may have better luck with API's from skype.
I do not believe that you will be able to use iChat that way as it may not have a public API. If it does let me know. iChat is not just video capturing, its video capturing, hole punching at the protocol level, audio capturing and elegantly using the h264 codec for video and AC3 audio. Like I said it a piece of work. This technologies are hot and expensive now. If you want to work on this from scratch, use the Jabber protocol and look in to the Google Video Conferencing project. -giovanni James Mullins wrote: > Thanks Norman, > > I have played around with video grabbing over the last few years, but > have never found a way of streaming video to a remote computer at a > reasonable frame rate with minimal latency. iChat seems to do both > of these things reasonably well and I was hoping it was possible to > use the iChat engine to do all the hard work (capture - encode and > send). > > Any ideas? > > Best, > > James > > On 27/03/2007, at 11:55 PM, Norman Palardy wrote: > > >> On Mar 27, 2007, at 5:11 AM, James Mullins wrote: >> >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Has anyone come across a way of integrating iChat video within an RB >>> project? I would like to write an app that automatically connects >>> and displays video from a remote users camera. I am playing around >>> with telepresence applications and robotics. >>> >>> Is it possible? >>> >> I'd think you want to look at some of the QuickTime functions for >> video grabbing >> >> MBS has functions to do this sort of thing >> _______________________________________________ >> Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: >> <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> >> >> Search the archives: >> <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: > <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> > > Search the archives: > <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> > > _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
