On 5 Aug 2011, at 16:04, douglas welton wrote: > Julius, > > QTMovieLayer is your friend. If you haven't already, check out the Core > Animation QuickTime Layer sample code. I think you'll find it very helpful. > > regards, > > douglas > > Douglas hi, thanks for the suggestion. I'll study the code over the weekend. I ordered the Core Graphics book by Zarra and Long yesterday. Today I spent following up on the second of Mike's suggestions by playing with a NSView in a child window placed above a QTMovieView located on the parent. The need for the child window to have a minimum alpha of 0.05 in order for it to receive mouse events has an acceptably small effect on the movie's colour. Drawing into the view proceeds like a dream so that's been a super result.
I'd have liked to gain access to the movie frames as they were being displayed (in order to capture and store a small part of each frame) but my inability to do so is pushing me towards what is likely a more sensible approach anyway. If I had not asked the list I'd not have thought of either of these approaches. So thanks again. Best wishes Julius http://juliuspaintings.co.uk _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
