The correct way is to show an NSOpenPanel and ask the user to open the Desktop folder. Then store the security scoped bookmark.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/quartzcore/cametallayer

User defaults are cached, so if you want to remove them and clear the cache use the defaults cli command.

Maybe you need an autorelease pool.

It seems the C version is called CMTaggedBufferGroup.

The executable is trying to load some unsigned libraries from /usr/local/opt/, that can't be loaded because it was signed with the hardened runtime enabled. Maybe there is a way to do a static build with that library included? I never used gfortran, so I can't help more than this.

Video range means that black is 16 and white is 235, then there are super black and super white, that were historically useful when you had to color correct the video and restore missing details because the image exposure was not the best one. How are you converting from YpCbCr to RGB and back? Are you converting back to limited range or to full range.

Of course, VideoToolbox will create encoded data with the specification of the format you selected. It will be decodable on every other hardware.

The issue was triggered by thread 36, but you didn't post the stack trace of that thread, so it's not possible to know what's going wrong.

You are calling some UIKit methods on a different thread. UIKit mostly can be used only from the main thread. You've got a NSURLSession that runs a callback on a background thread and then calls UIKit. The main thread checker is useful to catch this kind of issues.

In my experience mouse tracking is so broken in macOS 13, and now even more in 14. I would write yet another feedback in the Feedback Assistant app.

"Work together" in which way? Those are two totally unrelated apps with two totally different toolchains and project formats.

Safari stopped supporting NPAPI (and similar types) plugins in version 12. But maybe someone out were wrote a Java Applet to Webassembly conversion tool.

[NSDocumentController.sharedDocumentController noteNewRecentDocumentURL:URL] or something like that.

As written at the end of your message, altool is not supported anymore, it has been replaced by notarytool. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/technotes/tn3147-migrating-to-the-latest-notarization-tool?changes=_3_3