Sample code for using mac camera in a program?

Question

I\'d like to use the camera in my Macbook in a program. I\'m fairly language agnostic - C, Java, Python etc are all fine. Could anyone suggest the best place to look for documen

Answer 1

If you want to manipulate the camera directly from your code, you must use the QuickTime Capture APIs or the Cocoa QTKit Capture wrapper (much better).

The only caveat is: if you use a QTCaptureDecompressedVideoOutput, remember that the callbacks aren't made on the main thread, but on the QuickTIme-managed capture thread. Use [someObject performSelectorOnMainThread:... withObject:... waitUntilDone:NO] to send messages to an object on the main thread.