The QTPlugin is a plugin for RealBasic that lets you access to a lot of the routines and structures provided by the QuickTime multimedia programming architecture.
The plugin comprises 167 classes, 4 modules and 73 global methods that make easy for you to work with the QuickTime engine maintaining a great deal of control over it.
If you need to manage multimedia content using QuickTime and RealBasic in a easy but professional and powerful way, this plugin is that right one for you
Among the other things, you can use the QTPlugin to:
- create and edit movies and tracks
- export movies and still images
- manage access keys and quicktime preferences
- configure and apply effects to movies or images
- acquire sound and video from external devices
- output movies or still images to external devices
- perform asynchronous data transfer and movie loading
- manage sprites
- interpolate audiovisual data over the time
- transmit and receive audio and video streams over a network
You will be able to compile your projects for MacOS Classic, Carbon, Mach-O (PPC and Universal Binary), Cocoa and Windows
What is new in this release:
- added support for Cocoa platform
- added support for executing component tasks in background and receiving feedback from them on the main thread (Mac OS X only feature)
- introduced a new wrapper class to make possible to receive events from components during the execution of a task
- introduced a new wrapper class to make possible to receive events during the playback of data
- added auto-idling features to all that classes that need to be idled. That removes the need of manually idling the classes with a timer control
- added classes to use pixel buffer and OpenGL contexts to playback movies (Mac OS X only feature)
- added API to capture screen (Mac OS X only feature)
- added a set of APIs to deal with NCLC color informations, pixel aspect ratio, clean aperture and to get/set aperture dimensions in movies and tracks
- added a handful of classes to programmatically configure QuickTime built-in effects
- many other improvements to the plugin classes and modules
Requirements:
- QuickTime 3.0 or later
- Realbasic 2006 Release 4 or later
Limitations:
The demo version will not allow you to create stand-alone applications using the plugin
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