Saving WEBCam IMAGES using vb6 1

[elquixiote]

Hi! Someone give me a cheap webCAM. It is from Genius. It came with no manuals no help. Is there a way to capture images/photos using a vb6 application. The camera attaches to an usb port.

Any hint ?...

El quijote

 

[strongm]

Yes, there is a way. Or, at least, there should be if Windows has detected it.

Check out the capCreateCaptureWindow API call in avicap32. You'll probably also need to look, at a bare minimum, at the following Windows messages:

WM_CAP_DRIVER_CONNECT
WM_CAP_DRIVER_DISCONNECT
WM_CAP_EDIT_COPY
WM_CAP_SET_PREVIEW
WM_CAP_SET_PREVIEWRATE
WM_CAP_SET_SCALE

 

[Tulloch]

I also wish to do a similar thing with a USB mounted digital camera that sends a constant video-like stream through the USB port. I have found some info from the MS website concerning the API calls, but I simply have no experience in calling these dlls and making them work. Could you please give a little more detail regarding the integration of these calls?

Thanks in advance,

Andrew

P.S. I'm using VB6 with a Canon G2 digital camera. All I want to do is display the image stream on the screen, not control the camera (yet .

 

[ADoozer]

theres an app out there called vbVidCap i think i downloaded it off developerfusion but there search is down.

if google doesnt turn anything up on this and u want me to email the source just ask.

'****************************************************************
'*  vbVidCap for Windows - Full source code for Visual Basic 5/6
'*  
'*  A full featured video capture application written entirely in
'*  Visual Basic. 
'*
'*  This program should be compatible with any Video For Windows 
'*  capture device.  Comments, suggestions, and bug reports can be
'*  sent to raymer@shrinkwrapvb.com
'*  
'*  More information and a fully compiled version of this program 
'*  is available at:
'*  [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.shrinkwrapvb.com[/URL]
'*
'*  Copyright (C) 1998-2000, Ray Mercer.  All rights reserved.
'****************************************************************

hope this helps

If somethings hard to do, its not worth doing - Homer Simpson

 

[Homersim2600]

VBVidCap works great!

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