Category: Streaming and Multi-Media

What else can you do with that iSight?

MacDevCenter.com: More iSight Video Tricks [Sep. 23, 2003]
Good article exploring some nice Quicktime based software which works well with the iSight.
Interesting to note that the iSight is an IIDC camera and therefore it will work with a wide variety of software that supports IIDC. One example that comes to mind is Coriander for Linux.

Real, no longer evil..?

Russell Beattie Notebook
Russell makes some good points about how Real is starting to change it’s game. Here is an interesting snippet:
But check it out! Funnily enough, in addition to 3GP support, Real has added TiVo-like cacheing to the new player as well! I was listening to KQED at work today, and I paused the station while I did something else, and when I came back and hit play, I expected Real to re-buffer as normal and grab the latest from the stream. But nope, it had been cacheing the stream the entire time and I was able to go back and forth through the recorded audio and didn’t miss a thing. VERY COOL.

Now THESE are TV’s

transvision
Chekout the Flash version of this site as well: http://www.transvision.us/
From the site:
Transvision’s intent is to change you’re relationship with what you are seeing rather than simply mindlessly relaying information. Each of the fully functional televisions proffers new prototypes for watching and reconceptualizing our ideas about television. These new schemes of interface problematize the act of watching TV by imbedding interaction into a medium traditionally resolved to the goal of complacency. The individual transformations in Transvision expose the power of the mediating object, reanimating both the content and the viewer while cutting through the static and stasis of media. Whatever you do, don’t sit back and relax.

Script your video compositing and other processing

iMagine Video
From the site:
A powerful image processing tool for AppleScript that uses Apple’s Quicktime, Quickdraw and Quartz technologies.
iMagine Video is a compositing tool for images, movie frames, shapes and text for AppleScript. iMagine Video provides comprehensive exif and IPTC support for image files and comes with example scripts and AppleScript droplets for the typical image file processing of scaling, cropping and rotating.

Open Source QuickTime for Objective C effort

SourceForge.net: Project Info – QTKit
From the site:
Tired of waiting for Apple to really support QuickTime in Cocoa? QTKit is a project by and for Cocoa developers to provide full access to QuickTime from ObjC.

Somewhat similar to a project that I am involved in, OpenQTJ. In response to Apple’s lame current QuickTime for Java build. Oh yeah, visit https://openqtj.dev.java.net/ for more.