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Waleed Eissa
Waleed Eissa

Reputation: 10543

Capturing video from a webcam in VC++

Other than DirectShow, what are the other options? I want to use this in an instant messaging application currently under development.

Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 866

Answers (2)

unwind
unwind

Reputation: 400129

The pre-DirectShow API was Video for Windows, I guess it's still going to work, Windows tends to favor backwards-compatibility quite heavily. There might be problems with driver support though, sometimes hardware manufacturers don't enjoy supporting multiple API:s too much. I'm not sure if the different API:s require different drivers, though.

Upvotes: 0

Silfverstrom
Silfverstrom

Reputation: 29348

Take a look at opencv. It has support for capturing live-streams from webcams.

http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/

Upvotes: 1

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