From: Dominic-Luc Webb 
To: "Bill T." 
cc: atm{at}shore.net
Reply-To: Dominic-Luc Webb 


On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Bill T. wrote:

>
> Can anybody recommend a good software library, driver, or scam for
> efficiently grabbing webcam and/or FireWire images from within a Visual C++
> or Visual Basic program?  Any information would be appreciated. Of course,
> Cheap is Good.
>
> My present industrial-refugee, expensive-to-replace video capture system is
> getting shakey, so it’s time to move on.
>
> Bill T.

Under Linux, I use a Philips webcam. I grab my choice of jpeg, TIF etc from
a shell command line using the software Xawtv, which I and others I know
had no problem to install. This can easily called from gnu C, for instance,
by a system call.

Dominic-Luc Webb
Uppsala, Sweden

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