Open source portable/cross-platform video camera capture library

Question

Hello,

I like to know if there's a open-source, cross-platform library for capturing web-cam data. Any other suggestions are welcome in case such solutions are not available. I am looking for something similar to portaudio if possible but this is not absolutely mandatory.

Also open-source & cross-platform projects falling into this category are a good starting point.

Thanks in advance,

Iulian

LATER:

I also found portvideo. Does anyone have any experience with it?

LATER2:

Another one reactivision. This one seems to be pretty cool and well supported.

LATER3:

Found also libvidcap. Didn't manage to test it under Linux for the moment.

Answer 1

Give a look at opencv and its highgui project.

Answer 2

I heard OpenCV can do that. Never used it myself, so please take this suggestion with a grain of salt.