Reader Mail & Rumor Report-April 25, 2007

In today's reader mail & rumor report-we note the release of the first custom trivia pack for Apple's iQuiz (a iPod game) and the announcement of BabyaTV

BabyaTV:
BabyaTV is Babya's latest Mac application.

It's a easy to use but powerful audio/video capture application that saves to QuickTime formart (.mov)-which is ideal for use in iMovie, iDVD, websites or Final Cut Studio.

The outputted files can even be used on Windows PC's with QuickTime 7 or later and applications such as Babya OneVideo

Features include:
* Includes a set of Cocoa wrappers to Sequence Grabber classes
* The app itself is written in Cocoa
*Universal binary
* Captures movies using Sequence Grabber
* Performs real-time preview of audio and video
* Supports arbitrary numbers of source SGChannels
* Supports saving of Sequence Grabber settings files
* Supports restoration of previous captures from saved Sequence Grabber
settings files

Video-specific points of interest:
* Demonstrates video preview outside the Sequence Grabber using the SGDataProc -> ICMDecompressionSession -> CIImage -> NSOpenGLView
sub-class
* Supports real-time scaling of video preview (live-resizing)
* Supports setting video preview codec quality (low, normal, high, etc.)
* Supports dynamic throttling of video preview fps
* Shows standard SGSettingsDialog for video channel configuration

Audio-specific points of interest:
* Demonstrates getting/setting most audio properties, including:
* Listing record devices
* Selection of record device
* Selection of record device input selection
* Selection of record device stream format
* Setting of record device master and per-channel gain (in hardware or software)
* Enabling/disabling source channels on record device
* Assignment of audio channel labels to source channels
* Solo'ing and muting of source record channels
* Record device per-channel level metering
* Listing of preview devices
*Selection of preview device
* Selection of preview device output selection
* Selection of preview device stream format
* Setting of preview device master gain
* Hardware playthru or software real-time preview
* Selection of output format (including VBR formats, sample rate conversion, down-mixing, etc.)

BabyaTV will be available in late May.

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik5jAMvx-vs

Babya Quiz Pack 1:
The first ever custom trivia pack for iQuiz called Babya Quiz-Windows XP Basics has been released.

Babya Quiz-Windows XP Basics is a short quiz about Windows XP for Apple's iQuiz game for iPods.

How to install-unzip and copy the quiz pack and folder into: the iPod Games's iQuiz (in the iTunes folder on your PC or Mac). Then connect your iPod and sync it with iTunes 7.1 or later.


Download:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?31000000036763

That's it for this week's reader mail report.