Your right Giovanni, The iChat engine is one of the best I have seen. A real pity that we can't seem to hook into its power for our own applications.
Thanks for the advice re Skype and Google. Will have a look. Best, James On 31/03/2007, at 6:21 AM, Giovanni wrote: > 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> > > _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
