iphone-sdk-3.0

So MPMediaItem conforms to NSCoding, but it contains a pointer to MPMediaItemArtwork, which doesn't conform to NSCoding. So if I try to archive a MPMediaItem, if that item has some artwork in it, it will not be able to unarchive. I tried to make a category of MPMediaItemArtwork and make it conform to NSCoding, but I can't seem to do that because we don't have access to the actual UIImage that it stores. Does anyone know of any other creative ways to get around this problem? I want to be able to archive an MPMediaItem, even if it means somehow stripping off the artwork object. Is there a way to

Is AVAssetWriterInput's readyForMoreMediaData updated in a background thread? If readyForMoreMediaData is NO, can I block in the main thread and wait until the value changes to YES? I'm using an AVAssetWriterInput by pushing data to it (i.e. without using requestMediaDataWhenReadyOnQueue) and I've set expectsMediaDataInRealTime, and 99.9% of the time I can just call appendSampleBuffer (or appendPixelBuffer) on it as fast as my app can generate frames. This works fine unless you put the device (iPhone 3GS) to sleep for 15 minutes or so in the middle of an AVAssetWriter session. After waking up

I have a CALayer transformed in 3D on a offscreen UIView (much larger than 320x480). How do I dump what is seen on this UIView to a UIImage? NOTE: I Have edited the question to include this code... This is how I create the layer... CGRect area = CGRectMake (0,0,400,600]; vista3D = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:area ]; [self.view addSubview:vista3D]; [vista3D release]; transformed = [CALayer layer]; transformed.frame = area; [vista3D.layer addSublayer:transformed]; CALayer *imageLayer = [CALayer layer]; imageLayer.doubleSided = YES; imageLayer.frame = area; imageLayer.transform =