Eh no. Both Quicktime and now AVFoundation can do H264 decoding in video streams. I think the issue is that GEM doesn't yet support it on OSX as Iohannes has repeatedly sought OSX dev help ...
On Sep 6, 2013, at 11:40 AM, pd-list-request@iem.at wrote:
Unfortunately, Apple has not implemented this compression feature into their crappy usb camera drivers, so you stick to good old standard definition on OSX.
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