QuickTime for Java: A Developer's Notebook

Acknowledgments

Brett McLaughlin deserves huge thanks for getting this book to you. Not only is he the creator of the Developer’s Notebook series and the editor of this book, but he also saw that QuickTime for Java was a topic whose need for practical know-how (to navigate the media jargon, obtuse concepts, and teeming “gotchas”) was well-suited for this series. Chuck Toporek at O’Reilly was also very helpful in getting people excited about the book. And, of course, I wouldn’t even be writing for O’Reilly if I hadn’t bumped into Daniel Steinberg at the Mac OS X conference a few years ago, which ultimately led to our working together to edit the ONJava and java.net web sites.

The members of the quicktime-java and quicktime-api mailing lists, and the OpenQTJ project at java.net, have also been extremely helpful in working through problematic material and passing along those nuggets of knowledge that you’re somehow “just supposed to know.” In particular, the material in Chapter 6 about working around the incomplete state of video capture came in many ways from bits of discussion here and there saying, “you can get it to work by passing in your own GWorld.” After I posted an early version of this book’s “motion detector” example, some quicktime-java members developed it further into a more general-purpose capture preview. Tech reviewers Rolf Howarth, Anthony “aNt” Rogers, Dmitry Markman, and Sean Gilligan have also been generous with their time, attention, and knowledge, and have made ...