Thread: how to grab the video from the camera?

how to grab the video from the camera and stream to screen?


this is my first post but I guess I'll be a good member of this community!!!

This is a very complicated task, but in general, you'll do something like this:

Step 1: Write a (probably kernel-mode) driver to interface with your camera
Step 2: Write/find a library to parse the video data you receive
Step 3: Write a transfer mechanism to grab data from the driver to your program
Step 4: Install a graphics/GUI library and link it to your program
Step 5: Interface with the library to make it display the parsed pixel data

Or, you could just launch Quicktime