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- About mhTV
-
- This is a quick hack to demo how QuickTime movies can be rather richer than most people
- imagine.
- On a mac with a video digitizer attached, start up with the mhTV extension in the
- extensions folder, and open the movie "mhTV.moov noController" in a properly QuickTime
- aware application (eg MoviePlayer, SimpleText, Internet Explorer 4.01).
- The feed from the digitizer should appear in that app.
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- Notes:
- Will not work in some crummy apps that do weird things in the way they "support" QuickTime.
- Subject to all the normal limitations of using digitizers, eg on 3400 PowerBook using
- zoom video, the screen must be set at 8-bit screen depth.
- Due to limitations in crummy digitizer hardware and software, will probably not work if
- you try to do anything fancy with the movie like rotate it or send it through QT effects.
- If you have multiple vdig's installed, the first one installed into QuickTime will be
- used. (With no way, right now, unfortunately, to control the vdig settings.)
-
- How it works:
- A mediaHandler of type mhTV is installed in the OS. It uses its idle time to grab a feed
- from the vdig.
- The mhTV.moov movies consist of nothing but a sample description of type mhTV so that
- when opened they'll connect to the above-mentioned media handler.
-
- Copyright Maynard Handley, 1998.
- This source code, extension and movie files may be freely distributed without restriction.
- The source code is not great (try writing better at ultra-high-speed under MacHack
- conditions) but I would be very gratified if people studied it, used parts of it, and
- either improved it or used the ideas from it to make various cool Quicktime tools.
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