Hello,
   
  some questions were aroused today 
  by my video-artist friend and, well, 
  
  through the pd list because they are of a general 
  interest :
   
  a/ we noticed that a frame is able to load a 
  video AND 
  separate images at the same 
  time,
  but images are always ON TOP of the 
  video,
  the only way of removing them is to send 
  
  a "clear" message to the frame
  and this makes you loose all the loaded 
  images.
  can we hope that they will behave as layers 
  one day
  so that we could show an image or the video 
  ??
  it could be a switch mode or a transparency 
  effect
  ( would prefer the later, of course 
  ).
   
  b/ is there a way that a frame could be sent 
  
  to a video specific card like a Miro DC30 
  ??
   
  c/ as i'm not hopping a positive answer to point 
  b/
  ( I'm quite ignorant of Direct X but I know it's 
  not open tech,
  so it must be a tough matter to redirect output 
  ),
  we'd be grateful if there would be a video 
  recording object one day.
   
  The goal of points b/ and c/ is to record the 
  work you do in real-time.
   
  Thanks for clarifications.
   
  Yves 
Degoyon