MPVideoProcessor

Wrapper for Video Capture by AVFoundation

What's this?

I am working on some computer vison project, which need to process the each frame of the video captured by iPhone in realtime. This is a wrapper for video capture. You setup your class as the delegate to get the video (as image) per frame and you can have your customized actions.

How to use it?

The current version is fairly simple. I will add more options as my own work moves forward. Draw two files MPVideoProcessor.h and MPVideoProcessor.m to your project.

    //< Create an instance        
    self.m_videoProcessor = [[MPVideoProcessor alloc] init];        
    
    //< Start Video Capture wherever and whenever you want
    ////< Setup it first
    [self.m_videoProcessor setupAVCaptureSession];
    ////< Add some customization, for example, switch to higher quality video recording
    [self.m_videoProcessor.m_avSession setSessionPreset:AVCaptureSessionPresetHigh];
    ////< Start it and setup the delegate (typically an UIViewController)
    [self.m_videoProcessor startAVSessionWithBufferDelegate:self];

    //< Wherever you should implement the delegate method like this:
    - (void)captureOutput:(AVCaptureOutput *)captureOutput didOutputSampleBuffer:(CMSampleBufferRef)sampleBuffer fromConnection:(AVCaptureConnection *)connection {
    
      //< Get the Image Buffer and Lock the address to prevent conflict
      CVImageBufferRef imageBuffer =  CMSampleBufferGetImageBuffer(sampleBuffer);
      CVPixelBufferLockBaseAddress(imageBuffer, 0);
  
      //< MPVideoProcessor wraps the image creation from imageBuffer
      CGImageRef dstImage = [MPVideoProcessor createGrayScaleImageRefFromImageBuffer:imageBuffer];
      
      //< Unlock it :]
      CVPixelBufferUnlockBaseAddress(imageBuffer, 0);
      
      //< Show the image from the main Thread
      dispatch_sync(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
          self.m_imageView.layer.contents = (__bridge id)dstImage;
      });
    
      //< CleanUp
      CGImageRelease(dstImage);
    }

Credits

I learned from this post http://invasivecode.tumblr.com/post/23153661857/a-quasi-real-time-video-processing-on-ios-in Thanks iNVASIVECODE.