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webcam status

hi i ave application that captures images as user wanted to take video or image.Also I want to get stautus information about the camera regularly. I use wia library,but no function it has for getting status. How to get runnig status of a cam ? ...

WPF integrating with web cam

How do you integrate a PictureBox to display a video through WPF? ...

WPF integrating with a web cam and rotating the video

is this possible? ...

Using c# .NET 3.0 on a Windows XP machine, what is the most efficent way to record from multiple webcams?

I am trying to figure out what APIs to use to connect and record from a webcam. In al of my research, Google, I have found many OLD articles which discus Directshow and COM. I don't want to write code that is using an obsolete API. Any direction with this is greatly appreciated. ...

Live Webcam on ASP.NET Web Site

I need a way to put a live web cam video on my ASP.NET application. I basically want answers from people who have done this before. What is the easiest and most cost-effective way to accomplish a simple web cam feed? Technically, it does not have to be streaming video (although that is the preference). I could settle for an image...

.Net: What should be the approach to capture video from multiple cameras to flv

Hi Guys, I want to create an application which will take the web cam as an input and save the captured video as an flv file. I am looking at Adobe's Flash Live Media Encoder for the same but it doesn't have an API but has a command line tool for the encoding. Please suggest some other alternatives i could look at. ...

Video processing colour finder in .NET

I want to find the area/s in a video that have a certain colour. C# would be preferable Java is possible. For example I have a feed from a web cam and I want to know what region of the live picture has the colour red. I have looked at the Aforge.net library but cant see which part might be appropriate. Any suggestions? ...

What video conferencing software is suitable for communicating with clients?

You're working freelance with several small remote clients and you want to have a meeting via webcam. What do you use? Please consider price, video quality, and minimum hassle for the clients. I'd prefer my clients don't have to pay anything or install anything for it to work. I'm already serving VNC in a Java applet, so something li...

How to set amcap's default color space to YUY2?

Hi, AMcap is a app for capturing video or to preview from webcam. Its source code comes with Microsoft Windows SDK as sample. I want to (bypass the following process of user interaction in amcap code or say want to) set it as default: Ampcap menu Options Video Capture Pin ... Color Space/Compression: YUY2 Out...

Capturing still images using AMCAP ?

Hello folks, I am developer from *nix world so any pointers will be helpful. I am using the AMCAP SDK example and have to capture live preview and still images. I understood the code for getting live preview. Now how can I capture an image at runtime from the gcap data structure ? Mind you the application has to do some real time image...

Taking Images From Camera with Adobe Flash

Hi, I want to help user to take their pictures with a plugged in video camera and post it to the server by using Adobe Flash. is there any component can do it ? ...

Does webcam recording with Flex strictly requires a media server (FMS, Red5, Wowza,etc.)?

Hi! I'm trying to implement a flex app that will be able to record a video from a webcam and then upload it to a server. I've only found tutorials and examples that require a media server running such as Red5, Flash Media Server and Wowza and an open rtmp stream to the server. However, I want to know if it's possible to record a video...

VB.NET WebCam

I need a WebCam component that is only .net(if it builds on Win API or DirectX its ok) the functions i need are: Preview Select Input device Set Resolution Get a Image ...

License plate recognition

As a side-project I'm trying to create an app that scans license plates from passing cars from my living-room window. I have hooked up a high resolution camera to my system to capture (moving) images into my c# app. Now all I need is a way to interpret these images into something readable. I´m thinking about some sort of OCR-solutio...

How to hook webcam capture?

Hi, I'm working on a software that the current version has a custom made device driver of a webcam, and we use this driver with our software, that changes the captures image before displaying it, very similar to YouCam. Basically, when any application that uses the webcam starts, our driver runs a processing in the frame before showing ...

Live video broadcast and server resources using RED5

how much ram do i need to run a server with red5 and broadcast live video I am starting a project that will include live video broadcasts from all over the world and it is expected to have at least 1000 users viewing those videos in real time. After looking around a bit i have decided to use RED5 to handle all the video streaming/recor...

How to take single snapshots from a webcam?

Hello, I want to take a snapshot with my webcam using java and save it to a jpg file. What are the steps needed to do so? A tutorial would be greatly appreciated. Greetings, Burkhard ...

Faster IMAP Client or other security webcam client options

I have a security webcam with FTP, SMTP and streaming video. Currently, whenever there is motion, it emails a picture and I view it through IMAP. Viewing these images via Thunderbird is slow and a bit painful and tends to lock up. What other options do I have? Maybe there's a PHP package that I can install on a website or at least an...

How would I go about streaming a webcam to a website and then let the visitors to watch it?

I am interested in writing my own software to do this. What will I need in particular? Is it hard to do or not that hard? ...

Windows Mobile Device with Webcams Plugged In

Hi everyone, I am exploring the possibility of plugging webcams (preferrably any webcam so I don't get tied to a particular hardware vendor) into a Windows Mobile 5 or 6 device, and write a piece of software app that allows user to click a button in that software app to get the webcam to take pictures or video streams. So, I will need ...