[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Add AVFoundation input device.

Roger Pack rogerdpack2 at gmail.com
Wed May 28 15:55:10 CEST 2014


On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Thilo Borgmann <thilo.borgmann at mail.de>wrote:

> Am 20.05.14 19:52, schrieb Roger Pack:
> > On 5/20/14, Marcus Johnson <bumblebritches57 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> AVFoundation is OS X 10.7+, and is on iOS as well, although I'm not sure
> >> which version it first appeared in, I do know that QTKit is deprecated
> and
> >> AVFoundation is the future, but who knows Apple could change their
> minds at
> >> any point.
> >
> > OK so on 10.6.8 if I have a successful configure, what output should I
> > see that says that "QTKit" is enabled and working?
>
> It should be listed as an input device in configure's output. If it does
> not
> appear, updating your Xcode is AFAIK everything you can try to do about it.
>
> > (My end goal/desire
> > here is to use FFmpeg to natively record OS X desktop and "audio out"
> > if anybody has any tips/pointers there).
>
> QTKit/AVFoundation are input devices. It seems to me that you are basically
> looking for capturing system output...
>

Thanks.  Do you know if either of these can capture audio?
Does the current AVFoundation code allow for screen capture (like this
mentions: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/qa/qa1740/_index.html )
thanks!


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