Actually, on second thought, why reinvent the wheel. It will be *alot* quicker to port James George's QTkit implementation from OpenFrameworks as opposed to coding with AVFoundation from scratch. Maybe that's the best bet all around. As Edison said: "Better is the enemy of good."

On Feb 23, 2014, at 11:49 AM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika@gmail.com> wrote:

Also, from what I've read, AVFoundation is the best bet for the long run. I may start with AVFoundation plugins, then go QTkit if there is a need unless there are overwhelming reasons to use QTKit over AVFoundation. I know one issue is that QTKit handles more codecs and video formats, but I think the writing is on the wall regarding the formats "blessed" by Apple since they are are supporting fewer in AVFoundation mainly since those are supported in hardware (aka better performance).

On Feb 23, 2014, at 11:21 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig@iem.at> wrote:

what is missing are plugins for QtKit.

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