video-plugin with a QTKit backend ================================= input (from cam) QTCaptureDevice output (to pix) QTCaptureVideoPreviewOutput QTCaptureDecompressedVideoOutput see also: getPosterFrame getFrameImageAtTime from TechNote2138: Listing 1 How to get a CGImage for a movie frame at a given time. NSDictionary *dict = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:QTMovieFrameImageTypeCGImageRef forKey:QTMovieFrameImageType]; QTTime time = [movie currentTime]; CGImageRef theImage = (CGImageRef)[movie frameImageAtTime:time withAttributes:dict error:NULL]; example-code using QTKit for reading images: https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/trunk/blender/source/blender/quicktime/apple/qtkit_import.m