How to connect to an external device into a VB project

[Guest_imported]

In my project I need to capture a movie from another device(like tv, video camera etc.,).
Kindly give me suggestions regarding

 

[sunaj]

There's probably some high-level code that can do the job smarter, but here a low-level way to do it:

The vbasm.dll allows you to use the old basic commands 'poke' (vbpoke) and 'peek' (vbpeek) to read/write for a port/external device.

The dll can be downloaded from

http://www.programmersheaven.com/zone1/cat247/202.htm

 

[Alt255]

Vbasm is quite handy if you are working with 16-bit VB but it wasn't written to work with the 32-bit versions. Have you found a way to work around this shortcoming?

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[sunaj]

No. Long time ago I used this to control an external device, and I haven't tried it since. I did not know that there are problems in connection with the 32-bit version.