Bypassing the Sequence Grabber

[Steve Sisak]

OK, we've been telling people not to bypass the sequence grabber in 
order to maintain maximum compatibility, but it's pretty clear that:

   1) Sometimes using the SG is harder than not using it

   2) The SG is being neglected at Apple

I'm thinking that it might be time to provide some "best practice" 
sample code for controlling a video camera without going through the 
SG -- especially for use a a front end to real-time applications, 
like video conferencing.

I haven't had time to put together a full example app, but I'll make 
this offer:

If there are a couple of you out there that have applications that 
would benefit from calling the vdig directly and are willing to send 
me your application source (under NDA is fine), I'll write vdig 
control library to support whatever applications we have and post it 
as open source under a BSD-style license (commercial use OK, please 
submit any improvements).

(Rob, you're a logical candidate)

HTH,

-Steve

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