If you’re a REALbasic developer, here’s another tool for your tool chest: the BESTCapture Plug-in 1.0 from BEST Software.
The plug-in, for Mac OS 9.x and Mac OS X, lets REALbasic developers add audio and video features to their applications. You can use it to capture audio and/or video from USB, FireWire, PCI Cards and more.
The BESTCapture Plug-in lets you preview live video feeds and supports multiple simultaneous sources. With it, users can grab single frames, or record a video stream to disk. It records synchronously or asynchronously.
The BESTCapture Plug-in can be adapted for use in a variety of applications, including Web cameras, motion detection, home security, surveillance applications, scientific experiments, time-lapse photography and audio recording. It can be downloaded from the BESTCapture Web site. Registration costs US$59.95.