slow revVideoFrameImage

Doug Lerner doug at webcrossing.com
Tue Feb 3 23:54:40 EST 2004


On 2/4/04 1:47 PM, "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:

> On 2/3/04 9:51 PM, Doug Lerner wrote:
> 
>> So it seems the revVideoFrameImage command itself is causing the app to
>> pause while it finishes the video grab.
> 
> If I remember right, all externals act like that. When an external is
> called, MetaCard passes control to the external and pauses until it returns.

What is MetaCard? A former name of Revolution?

So, there is no way around this problem?

Is there any way of capturing a video movie into a variable instead of a
file? Maybe I could then chop out a frame and reset the variable instead...?

doug



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