webcam

How do you get value of a pixel from a webcam in puredata?

I'm new to puredata and am really impressed with it so far. What I need to do is to access the webcam and extract the luminosity (or RGB, conversion is easy) values of specific pixels. Is this possible? ...

Is there any Video Gesture actionscript library/api

So I need an open-source Video Gesture actionscript library/api. So we have a web cam... we move a hand and it causes some events... So i need motion detection for navigation API/Lib Where to get it? BTW: i found one but its documentation is... poor - http://www.elctech.com/demos/using-haar-cascades-and-opencv-in-as3 ...

Open Source Video Gesture Recognition Library in C#

I need an open-source Video Gesture Recognition .NET Library/API (in C#). We have a web cam... we move a hand and it causes some events... So I need motion detection for navigation lib/api... Where can I find such a library? ...

ActionScript - Save webcam video to local disk without using AIR or FMS

Hello, I would like to save a webcam captured video to the local disk using AS. The application is running in a standalone Flashplayer 10. I can save pictures from ByteArrays using file.save, but I can't find a way for doing this with video. There is a nice implementation for that using AS and AIR at http://www.joristimmerman.be/wordpr...

Webcam streaming peer-to-peer

Hi guys! I was wondering if it's possibile to create a client (or a web-client) that can connect two users and then it sends their webcam stream to each other. This should happen without using Red5 or any other flash/media server. What protocol can I use? What api etc... ...

C# Trying to use WM_CAP_SET_SEQUENCE_SETUP to allow me to maintain control of the application during video capture.

Hi, thanks for reading. At the moment im making an application to capture video from a webcam, and at the same time click various buttons that write to a text file to make notes on the video. I'v pretty much got everything down now apart from that the WM_CAP_SEQUENCE takes away control of the application by default during capture... so ...

Flash webcam settings on macbook (and potentially other cameras)

I'm working on a flash app that allows users to take snapshots of themselves using their webcam. It seems that on certain computers (mostly macbooks and MBPs so far) the flash player 10 default webcam setting is for "DV video" rather than "USB Video Class Video", which is the required setting (as far as I know) to allow flash to tap int...

Buffer Webcam Video Upload

I currently publish streaming webcam video from a Flex web app to a Wowza server. However I don't need the video to be live. Is there a way I can buffer this upload, or even wait until the recording is complete? This way I can avoid bandwidth and latency, and deliver higher quality video. ...

Efficient way to stream Webcam from client to a server C#

Hi, I've set up a custom tcp connection between my client and the server. I'm making a simple chat program. So far the users are able to talk to each other and send files. I'm adding a webcam chat and I've used AForge.Net for grabbing the frames from my webcam. But sending these captured frames from the client to the server is taking t...

Capturing video & storing on hard disk in .3gp format (fmj)

I want to develop a java application to capture video from a usb web cam and store in .3gp format onto the hard disk. Please provide me working code (if any) that stores the video in .3gp format.please help me friends. ...

image capture on webcam button press event

I am developing application to capture image from webcam using .net and directshow. I want to capture image on push event of button available on webcam. I am not able to do it using directshow. After some R&D I came to know that it can be done with Microsoft Still image architecture or WIA. If is it so then please provide me the complet...

Video Broadcasting

For fun I'd like to recreate http://chatroulette.com/. Basically i need to be able to stream webcam video from one computer to another using flash. I'm new to flash. Are there libraries out there for this? ...

getting data from webcam.

how hard would it to make software for a webcam like gateway usb 2.0 web cam. i would like to ask it to give me pics when i ask. i know i could but how do i? what would i use, i can program in c++ so if i could use that it would be nice. ...

Problem in java programming on windows7 (working well in windows xp)

I am capturing video from webcam connected to pc.I am using the following code to do so: import java.util.*; import javax.media.*; import javax.media.protocol.*; import javax.media.control.*; import javax.media.format.*; import java.awt.*; /** * This is the primary class to run. It gathers an image stream and drives the processing. * */...

Writing a video chat widget in Flash and PHP.

I am writing a webcam chat in flash (for the client side), I also am using PHP/Apache/Memcache for the server side for text chats... What exactly will I need in terms of server side software to connect these users flash/swf sessions together? I currently have an ubuntu server running Lamp (Apache/Php/MySql/Memcache)... the client to c...

Problem with video capturing format from webcam in java using jmf.

I am working on the code to capture video using jmf in java.The program given below works fine and stores into raw avi format.I wanted to change the video format(any of .avi container format excluding raw .avi format). My program automatically takes the following format.In the jmf registry this is the maximum resolution for my webcam. ...

Grabbing a random frame from a webcam with GStreamer in Python

I'm trying to write a program to control a robot by interpreting frames from a webcam and happened upon GStreamer. I've been able to stream video in Python from the webcam with GStreamer with help from this page: http://www.ndeschildre.net/2008/04/04/python-power/ However, I don't know how to ask for a single RGB-encoded frame from the...

Programming webcam on Linux

I want to be able to capture images from a webcam on Linux. This is still a project requirement and I'm having a difficulty finding up-to-date information about capturing images from a webcam on Linux. Is it true that every webcam has different API (unlike the Windows variant where I can use a common API), so I must write the program for...

Flash: BitmapData.draw(Video) ignores video height.

Hi there...I'm pretty much the rookiest rookie when it comes to Flash. Here's the actionscript (3): // Here's the dumb-dumb: /*****************************************************************/ /*****************************************************************/ function captureImage(e:MouseEvent):void { // The video still-image is c...

How to merge detected edges to a colour capture in Emgu CV

Hello, I am trying to make a C# desktop application (with Emgu CV wrapper) which captures the feed from the camera, detects edges in the feed and then displays the original feed (coloured) with the edges - so somewhat of a combined coloured feed and edges. I successfully get the feed from the camera. I also detect the edges in the feed ...