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How would i go about doing this, i've had a very hard time figuring this out. so lets say i have a camera plugged into my computer (webcam or not), how would i retrieve that image in real time from the camera, and then display it, posibly manipulate it a little?
a hint in the right direction would be more than enough. a book name that might have it would be awesome. i jsut can't find anything at all.
thanks guys
For getting the image, use either an OS-specific API (Windows Multimedia API, Video4Linux API, ...) or an abstraction layer library that Google might turn up.
For manipulating it, you'd have to decode each frame, then do your manipulation on the frame, as in any other image processing.
I've been meaning to look into this sort of thing for ages (for my webcam). I'm going to go hunting now. I'm betting you'll be needing an API specific to the hardware.
EDIT: Bugger it. Can't find anything but I've got a niggling I was wrong about needing a specific API.
ok so like i'm really really newbieish. ok lets say i want to program this in linux, where would i find how to use the Video4Linux API?
Google.
Silly.