Capture and stream webcam

[rikeman]

Hello,

I want to make a program that captures video from my webcam, that's not the difficult point, but then, I want to stream the captured video, like an *.wmv file, so when the program is running and capturing, and I open the wmv file, that file must show what the webcam has captured, live webcam. Any suggestions?

 

[koz]

I'm trying to learn how to write the initial program. Do you have any examples I could look at?

 

[Error7]

Axis Communications has several SDK's for their own network cameras.

http://www.axis.com/techsup/cam_servers/dev/activex.htm

You could download some of their stuff. It may help to get you started.

Alan

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[ADoozer]

theres a sample project available at

http://www.shrinkwrapvb.com/vbvidcap.htm

good luck

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

 

[kodr]

I'm working on a similar project.

Do you want audio along with video? There are several commercial and shareware solutions that may help you out.

I didn't like that route though, I wanted to create my own application.

For the video portion (and I've seen this on several web-sites) an easy way to do this is to set up a timer and grab a video frame several times a second, save as a file, open as binary, and send it to the far end, which reconstructs the file. The audio is a little more involved. My current solution is to save the audio in 1 second recordings to stream to the far end for play back, similar to the process of the video portion.

There is a really good module out there that someone published that covers all of the funtions for video capturing, I'll track down the link and post it if I can find it.

 

[kodr]

Here is another link to get you started.

http://www.martin2k.co.uk/vb6/tips/vb_35.php